From koty at cameron.edu Wed Mar 11 17:31:27 2020 From: koty at cameron.edu (Karla Oty) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:31:27 +0000 Subject: [OK-AIR] Discrepancy between IPEDS and OSRHE definitions for First-time Freshmen and Transfer students Message-ID: <611f7e84bcb249eebed0e987fef05328@cameron.edu> Greetings! I was wondering if you have any interest in asking the regents to modify their definitions of First-time Freshmen and Transfer students to match the definitions that are used by IPEDS (definitions below). COI is working on revisions to the Institutional Admission and Retention Policy and I had suggested that it would be great if the state changed their definition to match IPEDS. Regent's staff indicated that the only feedback they have ever gotten on this is from me so it might be that we are the only institution that struggles with reporting students using the two contradictory definitions. It is particularly problematic because the UDS files are used for the IPEDS surveys. If you think it would be worth recommending that the state change their definitions to match IPEDS, would you please either let me or your Vice President of Academic Affairs know. If you let me know, I'll pass along your responses to my VPAA. Here is OSRHE's definitions "First-Time-Entering Student" is a student with six or fewer attempted credit hours, excluding developmental education or pre-college work and excluding credit hours accumulated by concurrently enrolled high school students. "Transfer Student" is any undergraduate student with greater than six attempted credit hours, excluding developmental education or pre-college work and excluding credit hours accumulated by concurrently enrolled high school students. Here is IPEDs definitions First-time student (undergraduate) A student who has no prior postsecondary experience (except as noted below) attending any institution for the first time at the undergraduate level. This includes students enrolled in academic or occupational programs. It also includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the prior summer term, and students who entered with advanced standing (college credits or recognized postsecondary credential earned before graduation from high school). Transfer-in student A student entering the reporting institution for the first time but known to have previously attended a postsecondary institution at the same level (e.g., undergraduate, graduate). This includes new students enrolled in the fall term who transferred into the reporting institution the prior summer term. The student may transfer with or without credit. For systems of coordinated institutions (multi-campus system), students are to be identified as transfer-in students upon entering an institution from another institution within the same coordinated system. Thanks, Karla Karla J. Oty, Ph.D. Director, Institutional Research, Assessment, and Accountability Cameron University 2800 W. Gore Blvd Lawton, OK 73505 (580) 581-2899 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slivingood at ou.edu Thu Mar 12 13:34:24 2020 From: slivingood at ou.edu (Livingood, Susannah B.) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:34:24 +0000 Subject: [OK-AIR] Entry level IR Analyst @ OU-Norman Message-ID: If you or anyone you know might be interested in an entry level IR position at OU-Norman, we just opened a listing. Apply online at jobs.ou.edu. Some additional information: Job Description - INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH ANALYST (200786) INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH ANALYST - Job Number: 200786 Organization: Institutional Research & Rep. Job Location: Oklahoma-Norman-Norman Campus Schedule: Full-time Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am -5pm Salary Range: $50,000 - $55,000 based on experience Benefits Provided: Yes Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter Job Description--- IRR provides data support for University planning and administration. This is an entry-level institutional research position, tasked with data gathering, analysis, reporting, and records management. While prior IR experience is a plus, it is not required for entry-level work. Critical thinking skills, clear and concise writing style, graphic design abilities, social media management, and/or higher education work experience are all potential assets in this position. Job Requirements--- Required Education: Bachelor Degree or equivalent combination of education/job related experience, AND: 0-18 months experience in data analysis or institutional research activity Skills: Advanced Excel skills with ability to build and manipulate spreadsheets Proficient in Microsoft Office Detail oriented for accuracy of data and information Highly organized and able to handle multiple projects and deadlines Able to communicate well and build rapport quickly with students, faculty and staff Able to produce reports and complete work within deadlines Strong initiative to solve problems Strong written and oral communication skills Must be able to perform basic data analysis Must be able to read and interpret policy as well as State and Federal regulations Certifications: None Advertised Physical Requirements: Must be able to communicate effectively, engage in repetitive motion, hear, see, and sit or stand for extended periods of time. Departmental Preferences: Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Information /Library Science, Statistics or related field Supervision: No Supervisory Duties Hiring contingent upon a Background Check?- Yes Job Posting: Mar 6, 2020 Thanks, Susannah Livingood she/her/hers Associate Provost & Director Institutional Research & Reporting University of Oklahoma 630 Parrington Oval, Monnet 563 Norman, OK 73019 Phone: 405-325-3681 slivingood at ou.edu www.ou.edu/irr and minerva.ou.edu @ou_irr "Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers." - Robert Half -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ibillen at rose.edu Thu Mar 12 22:49:45 2020 From: ibillen at rose.edu (Billen, Isabelle) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 03:49:45 +0000 Subject: [OK-AIR] OK-AIR Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <226F1ACE-F311-46A1-90AA-C129DEDFF701@rose.edu> I attended a COI meeting a couple of months ago where this was discussed. I spoke with Edurne and they are looking into it. However, they are in the midst of switching to SAS and prefer to not make any changes until that implementation is complete. At least that is the last word I heard. I hope that the Regent's will respond to your question as well. Sent from my iPad > On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:00 PM, "ok-air-request at lists.onenet.net" wrote: > > Accountability From elopez at osrhe.edu Fri Mar 13 11:56:12 2020 From: elopez at osrhe.edu (Lopez, Edurne) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:56:12 +0000 Subject: [OK-AIR] Discrepancy between IPEDS and OSRHE definitions for First-time Freshmen and Transfer students In-Reply-To: References: <611f7e84bcb249eebed0e987fef05328@cameron.edu> Message-ID: <7f0cedeacf494c5285da41f7d2239109@osrhe.edu> Good morning, Regents will be looking to redefine variables as we go through our software transition in the coming months. We would like to align our variables to match what IPEDS definitions are. We welcome ideas and feedback on changes to UDS definitions. Please email me those thoughts and I will collect them for when the time comes to define variables in the new software. Edurné Usseglio-López Director of Student Performance Data Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 P: (405) 225-9226 C: (202) 840-2945 elopez at osrhe.edu From: Eastwood, Matt Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 10:34 AM To: Lopez, Edurne ; Lann-Wolcott, Matthew Subject: FW: Discrepancy between IPEDS and OSRHE definitions for First-time Freshmen and Transfer students Here's the original message Karla sent Wednesday evening... From: OK-AIR > On Behalf Of Karla Oty Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:31 PM To: ok-air at lists.onenet.net Subject: [OK-AIR] Discrepancy between IPEDS and OSRHE definitions for First-time Freshmen and Transfer students Greetings! I was wondering if you have any interest in asking the regents to modify their definitions of First-time Freshmen and Transfer students to match the definitions that are used by IPEDS (definitions below). COI is working on revisions to the Institutional Admission and Retention Policy and I had suggested that it would be great if the state changed their definition to match IPEDS. Regent's staff indicated that the only feedback they have ever gotten on this is from me so it might be that we are the only institution that struggles with reporting students using the two contradictory definitions. It is particularly problematic because the UDS files are used for the IPEDS surveys. If you think it would be worth recommending that the state change their definitions to match IPEDS, would you please either let me or your Vice President of Academic Affairs know. If you let me know, I'll pass along your responses to my VPAA. Here is OSRHE's definitions "First-Time-Entering Student" is a student with six or fewer attempted credit hours, excluding developmental education or pre-college work and excluding credit hours accumulated by concurrently enrolled high school students. "Transfer Student" is any undergraduate student with greater than six attempted credit hours, excluding developmental education or pre-college work and excluding credit hours accumulated by concurrently enrolled high school students. Here is IPEDs definitions First-time student (undergraduate) A student who has no prior postsecondary experience (except as noted below) attending any institution for the first time at the undergraduate level. This includes students enrolled in academic or occupational programs. It also includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the prior summer term, and students who entered with advanced standing (college credits or recognized postsecondary credential earned before graduation from high school). Transfer-in student A student entering the reporting institution for the first time but known to have previously attended a postsecondary institution at the same level (e.g., undergraduate, graduate). This includes new students enrolled in the fall term who transferred into the reporting institution the prior summer term. The student may transfer with or without credit. For systems of coordinated institutions (multi-campus system), students are to be identified as transfer-in students upon entering an institution from another institution within the same coordinated system. Thanks, Karla Karla J. Oty, Ph.D. Director, Institutional Research, Assessment, and Accountability Cameron University 2800 W. Gore Blvd Lawton, OK 73505 (580) 581-2899 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slivingood at ou.edu Wed Mar 25 17:07:15 2020 From: slivingood at ou.edu (Livingood, Susannah B.) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:07:15 +0000 Subject: [OK-AIR] QI proposals - examples to share? Message-ID: Good afternoon! I hope folks are able to enjoy this beautiful weather somewhat! I’m working on our HLC Quality Initiative proposal, so I’d say for me it’s mixed. 😊 This is our first time through the new(ish) QI process. Do any of you happen to have a copy of a successful proposal that you’d be willing to share with us? We promise to keep it to ourselves. Thanks for any help you might be able to provide! * Susannah she/her/hers Associate Provost & Director Institutional Research & Reporting University of Oklahoma 630 Parrington Oval, Monnet 563 Norman, OK 73019 Phone: 405-325-3681 slivingood at ou.edu www.ou.edu/irr and minerva.ou.edu @ou_irr “Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.” - Robert Half -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leeanne.paris at oc.edu Wed Mar 25 17:18:19 2020 From: leeanne.paris at oc.edu (Leeanne Paris) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:18:19 -0500 Subject: [OK-AIR] QI proposals - examples to share? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Susannah, Our QI proposal was one of the very first through the pipeline in 2013, so it's a little rough (this was before they had published any guidelines or a proposal template), but I'd be happy to share it. HLC used to have sample proposals on their website, but I just looked and couldn't find them any more. Would you like me to attach it to an email, or is there a better way to get it to you? Thanks, Lee Anne -- Lee Anne Paris, Ph.D. Associate Chief Academic Officer Oklahoma Christian University 405.425.5317 On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:08 PM Livingood, Susannah B. wrote: > Good afternoon! > > > > I hope folks are able to enjoy this beautiful weather somewhat! I’m > working on our HLC Quality Initiative proposal, so I’d say for me it’s > mixed. 😊 > > > > This is our first time through the new(ish) QI process. Do any of you > happen to have a copy of a successful proposal that you’d be willing to > share with us? We promise to keep it to ourselves. > > > > Thanks for any help you might be able to provide! > > > > - Susannah > > > > *she/her/hers* > > *Associate Provost & Director* > > Institutional Research & Reporting > > *University of Oklahoma* > > 630 Parrington Oval, Monnet 563 > > Norman, OK 73019 > > Phone: 405-325-3681 > > *slivingood at ou.edu * > > www.ou.edu/irr and minerva.ou.edu > > @ou_irr > > > > *“Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right > answers.” - Robert Half* > > > _______________________________________________ > OK-AIR mailing list > OK-AIR at lists.onenet.net > https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/ok-air -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tracy.edwards at okstate.edu Wed Mar 25 17:29:00 2020 From: tracy.edwards at okstate.edu (Edwards, Tracy) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:29:00 +0000 Subject: [OK-AIR] QI proposals - examples to share? In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: We participated in the Persistence and Completion Academy for ours. —Tracy OSU-OKC Sent from my mobile device. Please forgive typos. ________________________________ From: OK-AIR on behalf of Leeanne Paris Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:18:19 PM To: Livingood, Susannah B. Cc: Clary, Jennie ; ok-air at lists.onenet.net Subject: Re: [OK-AIR] QI proposals - examples to share? **External Email - Please verify sender email address before responding.** Susannah, Our QI proposal was one of the very first through the pipeline in 2013, so it's a little rough (this was before they had published any guidelines or a proposal template), but I'd be happy to share it. HLC used to have sample proposals on their website, but I just looked and couldn't find them any more. Would you like me to attach it to an email, or is there a better way to get it to you? Thanks, Lee Anne -- Lee Anne Paris, Ph.D. Associate Chief Academic Officer Oklahoma Christian University 405.425.5317 On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:08 PM Livingood, Susannah B. > wrote: Good afternoon! I hope folks are able to enjoy this beautiful weather somewhat! I’m working on our HLC Quality Initiative proposal, so I’d say for me it’s mixed. 😊 This is our first time through the new(ish) QI process. Do any of you happen to have a copy of a successful proposal that you’d be willing to share with us? We promise to keep it to ourselves. Thanks for any help you might be able to provide! * Susannah she/her/hers Associate Provost & Director Institutional Research & Reporting University of Oklahoma 630 Parrington Oval, Monnet 563 Norman, OK 73019 Phone: 405-325-3681 slivingood at ou.edu www.ou.edu/irr and minerva.ou.edu @ou_irr “Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.” - Robert Half _______________________________________________ OK-AIR mailing list OK-AIR at lists.onenet.net https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/ok-air -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From koty at cameron.edu Wed Mar 25 18:00:15 2020 From: koty at cameron.edu (Karla Oty) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:00:15 +0000 Subject: [OK-AIR] QI proposals - examples to share? In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: We also participated in the Persistence and Completion Academy for our QI. Karla Karla J. Oty Director, Institutional Research, Assessment, and Accountability Cameron University On Mar 25, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Edwards, Tracy wrote:  We participated in the Persistence and Completion Academy for ours. —Tracy OSU-OKC Sent from my mobile device. Please forgive typos. ________________________________ From: OK-AIR on behalf of Leeanne Paris Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:18:19 PM To: Livingood, Susannah B. Cc: Clary, Jennie ; ok-air at lists.onenet.net Subject: Re: [OK-AIR] QI proposals - examples to share? **External Email - Please verify sender email address before responding.** Susannah, Our QI proposal was one of the very first through the pipeline in 2013, so it's a little rough (this was before they had published any guidelines or a proposal template), but I'd be happy to share it. HLC used to have sample proposals on their website, but I just looked and couldn't find them any more. Would you like me to attach it to an email, or is there a better way to get it to you? Thanks, Lee Anne -- Lee Anne Paris, Ph.D. Associate Chief Academic Officer Oklahoma Christian University 405.425.5317 On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:08 PM Livingood, Susannah B. > wrote: Good afternoon! I hope folks are able to enjoy this beautiful weather somewhat! I’m working on our HLC Quality Initiative proposal, so I’d say for me it’s mixed. 😊 This is our first time through the new(ish) QI process. Do any of you happen to have a copy of a successful proposal that you’d be willing to share with us? We promise to keep it to ourselves. Thanks for any help you might be able to provide! * Susannah she/her/hers Associate Provost & Director Institutional Research & Reporting University of Oklahoma 630 Parrington Oval, Monnet 563 Norman, OK 73019 Phone: 405-325-3681 slivingood at ou.edu www.ou.edu/irr and minerva.ou.edu @ou_irr “Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.” - Robert Half _______________________________________________ OK-AIR mailing list OK-AIR at lists.onenet.net https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/ok-air _______________________________________________ OK-AIR mailing list OK-AIR at lists.onenet.net https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/ok-air -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: