session 57 integrated postsecondary education data system (ipeds) jan plotczyk

Session 57

Integrated Postsecondary

Education Data System

(IPEDS) Jan Plotczyk

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Agenda

• IPEDS and Federal

Student Aid

• 2006-07 data

collection

• Race/ethnicity

• Current projects of

interest

• IPEDS data use tools

– New COOL (!!!)

• Influences on the

future

• Wrap up – Q&A

IPEDS and Federal Student Aid

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Mandatory completion of IPEDS

• Completion of all IPEDS surveys, in a timely and accurate manner, is mandatory for all institutions that participate in or are applicants for participation in any Federal financial assistance program authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.

– 20 U.S.C. 1094, Section 487(a)(17)

– Program Participation Agreement (PPA)

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What does this mean?

• Completion of ALL applicable IPEDS

components within the appropriate data collection

period

– Enter data into the web-based data collection

system

– Edit and clean the data

– Lock the data

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Penalties for noncompliance

• Institution can be fined up to $27,500 per violation

• Institution’s eligibility to participate in Title IV

programs can be suspended

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Noncompliant institutions

• Each year, NCES is required to forward a list of

noncompliant institutions to the Office of Federal

Student Aid (FSA)

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Noncompliance

FSA Noncompliance Actions

Number of institutions fined, warned2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Fined78

$1,241,000

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$370,000

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$175,500

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$57,000

Warned ~350 30 12 12

Total ~428 69 51 22

IPEDS Data Collection 2006-07

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Fall Collection

SurveysInstitutional Characteristics (IC)

Completions (C)

Collection open September 6

Institution close October 18

Coordinator close November 1

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Winter Collection

Surveys

Human Resources (HR)

Enrollment (EF) (available)

Finance (F) (available)

Collection open December 6

Institution close January 24

Coordinator close February 7

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Spring Collection

Surveys

Enrollment (EF)

Finance (F)

Student Financial Aid (SFA)

Graduation Rates (GRS)

Collection open March 7

Institution close April 18

Coordinator close May 2

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Followup ScheduleEmail to KH (collection open) Open

Letter to CEO (no reg KH) Close – 4wks

Email to KH (no data) Close – 4wks

Phone to CEO (no reg KH) Close – 3wks

Phone to CEO/KH (no data) Close – 2wks

Email to KH (no data) Close – 2wks

Email to KH (not locked) Close – 2wks

Email to KH (no data) Close – 1wk

Email to KH (not locked) Close – 1wk

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Data Collection System Rewrite

• Data Collection System has been rewritten for 2006-07 using .NET and SQL2005

• Supposed to result in increased efficiency, ability to do more cool stuff

• Technology is so new that our developers are “bleeding” from being on the “cutting edge”

• Thanks for your patience during fall collection as we went operational

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New IC item -- Preliminary Early Estimate of Fall Enrollment

• IPEDS enrollment data collected in winter and spring are not released until the following summer

• Many requests from data users for earlier enrollment data

• Will not be displayed in IPEDS COOL, but will be available through IPEDS Peer Analysis System

• Clearly identified as early estimates, so data can be different from what will be reported on EF

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New IC item -- Preliminary Early Estimate of Fall Enrollment

Level of Student Full time Part time Total

Undergraduate R R CV

First-time undergrad R R CV

Graduate R R CV

First-professional R R CV

Grand total estimated Fall 2006 enrollment CV

R = reported value. CV = calculated value.

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New IC item – System, corporate affiliation

• Write-in item to capture affiliation with

institutional system, corporate entity

• Relocated from Finance

• Will be pulled forward in subsequent years

• Will be used in project to aggregate IPEDS data to

system/corporation level

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New IC item – Program length

• For institutions that report price of attendance data

by program

– Report program length in either credit hours or

contact hours

– Report average number of months it takes to

complete programs

– Clarification for IPEDS COOL

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New Enrollment item – Transfers in

• Degree-granting institutions

• New column

– Transfers into the institution (first-time at

institution)

– Full time and part time

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Fall Enrollment – Transfers In

Full-time undergraduate students

Degree/certificate-seekingNon-

degree/

non-

certif-

seeking

TotalFirst-

time

Trans-

fers inOther Total

R/E… R R R CV R CV

Total CV CV CV CV CV CV

R = reported value; CV = calculated value

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New Human Resources items

• 4-yr degree-granting institutions

– Add tenure status of instructional staff back to

SA section

• Institutions with <15 full-time employees

– Will do short Fall Staff section (collects data by

primary occupational activity, by race/ethnicity

and gender)

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Race/Ethnicity

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Race/Ethnicity

• Proposed Dept of ED guidance on Maintaining,

Collecting, and Reporting Data on Race and

Ethnicity posted in Federal Register 8/7/06

• For implementing 1997 OMB standards

• Public could submit comments until 9/21/06

• Final guidance to be posted after comment period

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Proposed Guidance

• Calls for implementation no later than Fall 2009,

with data regarding 2009-10 academic year

• Covers 2 separate issues:

– Collection of R/E data by institutions

– Reporting of aggregate data to US Dept of ED

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Collection by institutions

• Two-question format:

1. Is respondent Hispanic/Latino?

2. Respondent selects one or more races:– American Indian or Alaska Native

– Asian

– Black or African American

– Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

– White

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Additionally…

• Standards strongly encourage self-identification of

race/ethnicity rather than third-party observer

identification

• Dept of ED encourages institutions to allow

current students and staff to re-identify their race

and ethnicity

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Reporting aggregate data – 9 categories in IPEDS

1. Nonresident aliens

2. Hispanics of any race

9. Race/ethnicity unknown

For non-Hispanics only:

3. American Indian or Alaska Native

4. Asian

5. Black or African American

6. Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

7. White

8. 2 or more races

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Race/Ethnicity Technical Review Panel

• IPEDS will hold R/E TRP in Fall 2006 to discuss implementation issues, such as:

– How do we implement the new aggregate categories in IPEDS?

• GRS and C – students are no longer at the institution, so how to report?

– If data are collected in 2 formats for several years, how do we release data?

Current projects of interest

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First-professional degree classification• After 2 TRPs and 2 suggestion postings and 2 comment

periods…

• Final plan was posted in What’s New last week: http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/whatsnew.asp

• Optional reporting:– 2008-09 for IC, Enrollment

– 2009-10 for C (awards granted 7/1/08 - 6/30/09)

• Mandatory reporting:– 2009-10 for IC, Enrollment

– 2010-11 for C (awards granted 7/1/09 – 6/30/10)

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Plan

• Eliminate First-professional degree category; report in

appropriate degree level category as follows:

– Master’s degrees

– Doctor’s degrees – research/scholarship

– Doctor’s degrees – professional practice

– Doctor’s degrees – other

• Eliminate First-professional certificate category; report in

Postmaster’s certificate category

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XML Upload Option Coming

• Currently working on XML data upload option for

2007-08 IPEDS

• Will be another data submission option, along

with

– keying data into screens

– fixed file upload

– key value file upload

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Data Feedback Report 2006

• Was emailed to keyholders and coordinators in late September 2006

• Was mailed to CEOs in early October

• Is available through Executive Peer Tool (ExPT): http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/

• Few changes from 2005 report

• Keyholders were able to upload custom comparison groups for their 2006 report through 6/30/06 in the data collection system

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Data Feedback Report 2007

• 2007 report will incorporate changes suggested by TRP

– New figures

– Optional figures in ExPT

• Custom comparison group upload for 2007 report will open with spring data collection

• Instructions for comparison group upload at http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/comp_gp.asp

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3 Data Quality & Validity Studies

• Currently doing study comparing IPEDS Finance

data with data reported by institutions to EZ Audit

• Also doing study to compare IPEDS HR data with

non-IPEDS sources

• Compared original 2002-03 IPEDS data to revised

2002-03 data and non-IPEDS sources– http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005175

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Training

• AIR & IPEDS developing new modularized training materials, delivery modes, to supplement workshop format– Webinars

– Tutorials

– Online courses

• Covering both data submission and data use (beginning and advanced)

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Webinars

• Done live, then posted to AIR website

– http://airweb.org/

• Click IPEDS, then On-demand IPEDS Training

• Available now: New Keyholders, IC, C, Finance

• Available soon: HR, student surveys

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Web Resources

• Don’t forget to check IPEDS What’s New: http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/whatsnew.asp

– Reports on recent TRPs

– Reports on implementation of TRP suggestions

– In-depth discussion of other timely issues

– Links to other documents on the web

IPEDS Data Use Tools

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IPEDS Tool News

• New COOL (!!!)

– College Opportunities Online Locator

• IPEDS Executive Peer Tool (ExPT) for 2006

• IPEDS Peer Analysis System (PAS)

– Report Templates

– New interface (!!!)

• IPEDS Data Analysis System (DAS)

– Tables Library

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New COOL - Background

• Revisions based on work of 2005 AIR/NCES Senior Fellow

• Purpose of project -- enhance ongoing development and improvement of COOL

• Included:

– Comparative review of COOL and other college search sites

– Interviews/focus groups with high school students, parents, counselors

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Recommendations

• Change URL

– Old: http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool

– New: http://collegesearch.nces.ed.gov

• Improve search options, include:

– Map of USA to search by location

– Quick search function

– Search by major/program

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More Recommendations

• Modify language/terminology

• Revise page header to emphasize COOL

• Modify and relocate page navigation

• Incorporate compare function

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Slide with graphs

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Executive Peer Tool (ExPT)

• 2006 version now available

• http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/Expt/

• Download .pdf of IPEDS Data Feedback Report

• Recreate the graphs using your comparison group

or a different group of schools

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New Peer Tool Interface

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New Features

• New look, new navigation

• Choose multiple years for same variables

• Search for variables

• Built-in trend reports

• … BUT YOU USE IT THE SAME WAY

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PAS - New variables

• Institution category

• New 2005 Carnegie Classifications

• Updated degree of urbanization

• Institution size category

• Land grant institution

• Combined data allocation factors, methods

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Institution Category (instcat)

Degree-granting

Baccalaureate or above

1 - Grad w/ no undergrad degrees

2 - Primarily bacc or above

3 - Other bacc granting

4 - Associate's + certificates

Nondegree-granting

5 - Above bacc certificates

6 - Sub-bacc certificates

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Carnegie Classification

• 2000 Carnegie still available

• 2005 codes

– Basic

– Undergraduate instructional program

– Graduate instructional program

– Undergraduate profile

– Enrollment profile

– Size and setting

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Degree of Urbanization

• Urban-centric locale

• City & Suburb

– Large, midsize, small

• Town & Rural

– Fringe, distant, remote

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Institution size category

• Under 1000

• 1000 – 4999

• 5000 – 9999

• 10,000 – 19,999

• 20,000 and above

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Combined data allocation

• Allocation factors and methods for 2004 have

been added to PAS (response status information)

• Variables allow allocation of combined IPEDS

data among parent reporters and children

• Goal: to make IPEDS data more usable

• Keyholders were contacted for input

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PAS - Forms Facsimiles, Report Templates

• PAS Reports & Stats

• Forms Facsimiles

– IC now available 2001-2005

• Report Templates

– Pre-formatted reports for focus institution and comparison group

– TRP defined ~40 that will be added on a flow basis

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IPEDS DAS

• Table generator

– Available now at http://nces.ed.gov/dasol/

– Create tables using 2002, 2003, 2004 IPEDS

data

– View and download output

– Save and modify Table Parameter Files (TPFs)

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Also IPEDS DAS

• Tables library

– http://nces.ed.gov/das/library/

– Contains hundreds of tables (will be expanded to thousands)

– Already created -- just click• ED Tab tables

• Compendium tables

• State tables

Influences on the Future

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HEA Reauthorization

• Current HEA was extended in late September for

9 months

• In the 109th Congress, both House and Senate

introduced bills that differed but both focused on

consumer info and accountability

• Wait and see what will happen in 110th Congress

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Commission on the Future of Higher Ed

• Attempt to answer questions such as:

– What skills will students need to succeed in the 21st century?

– How can we make sure America stays the world's leader in academic research?

– And, how can we make sure opportunities for quality higher education and best jobs are open to all students?

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Commission Report

• Potential to have major implications for IPEDS

• Final Report released in late September —

A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher

Education

• To download report or for more info, see Commission web site:http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/index.html

• IPEDS-related recommendations include…

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Recommendation #1

• The creation of a consumer-friendly information

database on higher education

– useful, reliable information on institutions

– search engine to enable students, parents,

policymakers and others to weigh and rank

comparative institutional performance

• Implication: possible expansion of COOL

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Recommendation #2

• Develop a privacy-protected higher education information

system that collects, analyzes and uses student-level data as a

vital tool for accountability, policy-making, and consumer choice

– privacy-protected system

– would not include individually identifiable information such

as student names or Social Security numbers at the federal

level

• Implication: Uncertain – reopens unit record debate

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Recommendation #3

• Creation of timely annual public reports on college revenues and expenditures, including analysis of the major changes from year to year, at the sector and state level. Data should be consumer-friendly and not require a sophisticated understanding of higher education finance

• Implication: possible changes to IPEDS Finance (TRP being planned for January 2007)

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Contact us….

We appreciate your feedback and comments.

I can be reached at:

• Phone: 202-502-7459

• Email: janice.plotczyk@ed.gov

IPEDS Help Desk can be reached at:

• Phone: 877-225-2568

• Email: ipedshelp@rti.org