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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear COPLAC Institutional Research Colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I will be taking over the collection of the COPLAC data profile. The process and form should be exactly the same as last year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please submit all of the requested data that you will provide in a single sitting, as the Google form in unable to allow you to log out and back in to complete it. It will not allow you to go
back in multiple times. It is essentially set up like a survey.<span style="color:black"> As a result of that, I encourage you to fill out the information in the Excel spreadsheet then enter the information into the Google form.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit the COPLAC data profile data by April 13th. Here is the link for the form:
<a href="http://goo.gl/forms/7nuwM1RJJf">http://goo.gl/forms/7nuwM1RJJf</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Below is the tentative schedule of the process.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">COPLAC Data Profile Calendar 2015-16</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">February 2 - Send Google Form and Excel Codebook to institutions</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">April 6th- IPEDS Spring Collection Closes
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">April 13nd - COPLAC Data Profile is due from institutions
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">May 20th - Send draft profile to institutions (will be sent earlier if possible)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">May 27nd (or one week after the draft is sent out, whichever is earlier.) - Institutions review draft and provide updates or confirmation of valid data.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">June 8- Final Draft sent to Bill Spellman
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">TBD after final draft is distributed - feedback on process and metrics​</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have any question, feel free to contact me.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mark McClendon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Institutional Research and Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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