NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is the nation’s core postsecondary education data collection program. It is a single, comprehensive system designed to encompass all institutions and educational organizations whose primary purpose is to provide postsecondary education. For additional information see http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds. IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT October, 2009 Dear Institutional Executive: The National Center for Education Statistics is pleased to provide you with your institution’s annual IPEDS Data Feedback Report. The report compares data provided by your institution in 2008-09 through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to data for a similar group of institutions. Like last year, your institution was given the opportunity to select its own comparison group. We strongly encourage institutions to take advantage of the opportunity to select the other institutions to which they want to be compared in the report, as they generally find the report more informative. If your institution did not submit its own group, IPEDS identified a comparison group for you (see the list toward the back of this report for the institutions in your comparison group). I also encourage you to visit the IPEDS Executive Peer Tool (ExPT) at http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/. Not only can you download a PDF of this report as it was sent to you, you can also select a different comparison group and recreate the full report in PDF format. In addition, there are a number of extra figures available in the ExPT that are not included in your original report. Thank you for supporting IPEDS throughout the data collection process. Without your support and the high quality data that your institution provides, these reports would not be possible. If you have any comments on how we can improve the Data Feedback Report or the ExPT, please send them to ipedsdatafeedback@ed.gov. Best regards, Elise S. Miller IPEDS Program Director What Is IPEDS? How Can I Use This Report? The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a system of survey components that collects data from nearly 6,700 institutions across the United States whose primary purpose is to provide postsecondary education. IPEDS collects institution-level data on students (enrollment and graduation rates), student charges, program completions, faculty, staff, and finances. Upon receiving your Data Feedback Report (DFR), we strongly encourage you to discuss its contents with your institution’s IPEDS keyholder, or other institutional research professionals. Keyholders, appointed by institutional executives, coordinate the institution’s IPEDS data submission, frequently working with colleagues across the institution to ensure timely and accurate reporting. Your keyholder can answer questions about how IPEDS data are submitted, how individual indicators are defined, and how to interpret differences between your institution and the group to which it was compared. She or he can also assist you in identifying more appropriate comparison groups, if needed. After discussing the DFR with your keyholder, we encourage you to share it with your campus leadership team. With their assistance, other ways to make use of the DFR can be considered, including how to appropriately incorporate the DFR into existing strategic planning efforts and whether to share parts of the DFR with on- and off-campus stakeholders, including students, staff, faculty, governance board members, community leaders, media, and state and local officials. We are committed to ensuring the DFR is useful to campus executives. If after working with the DFR you have suggestions for future improvements, please send them to ipedsdatafeedback@ed.gov. These data are used at the federal and state level for policy analysis and development; at the institutional level for benchmarking and peer analysis; and by students and parents, through the College Navigator (http://collegenavigator.ed.gov), to aid in the college search process. For more information about IPEDS, see http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds. What Is the Purpose of This Report? The Data Feedback Report is intended to provide institutions a context for examining the data they submitted to IPEDS. Our goal is to produce a report that is useful to institutional executives and that may help improve the quality and comparability of IPEDS data. Where Can I Do More with IPEDS Data? What Is in This Report? The Executive Peer Tool (ExPT), available through the IPEDS Data Center (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter), is designed to provide campus executives easy access to institutional and comparison group data. Using the ExPT, you can produce reports using different comparison groups and access a wider range of IPEDS variables. The figures provided in this report are those suggested by the IPEDS Technical Review Panel. They were developed to provide selected indicators and data elements for your institution and a comparison group of institutions. The figures are based on data collected during the 2008-09 IPEDS collection cycle and are the most recent data available. Additional information about these indicators is provided in the Methodological Notes at the end of the report. Following the figures is a list of the institutions in your comparison group and the criteria used for their selection. Please refer to "Comparison Group" in the Methodological Notes for more information. Xavier University of Louisiana 2 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT Figure 1. Unduplicated 12-month headcount of all students and of undergraduate students, total FTE enrollment (academic year 2007-08), and full- and part-time fall enrollment (Fall 2008) Figure 2. Percent of students enrolled who are women, by level of student: Fall 2008 Image description. Level of student Horizontal BarPercent chart with 3 groupswho withare 2 items per group. X scale1,titled of students women. Group All students (N=38). Item institution 72. Median 58. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Group Undergraduate Item 1,2, Your institution 72.(N=37). Item 2, Comparison Group Median 58. Group Graduate (N=14). Item 1,3, Your institution 70. Median 64. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. EnrollmentBar measure Horizontal chart with 5 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Number ofheadcount students. Group Unduplicated - total. Item institution 3118. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Median- (N=38) 1022. Group Unduplicated headcount undergraduates. Item 1,2, Your institution 2334. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) 1022. Group Total FTE enrollment. Item 1,3, Your institution 3346. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) 915. Group Full-time fall enrollment. Item 1,4, Your institution 3070. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) 867. Group Part-time fall enrollment. Item 1,5, Your institution 166.Median (N=38) 56. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Enrollment measure Level of student 3,118 Unduplicated headcount - total 1,022 Unduplicated headcount undergraduates 72 All students (N=38) 58 2,334 1,022 3,346 Total FTE enrollment 72 Undergraduate (N=37) 915 58 3,070 Full-time fall enrollment 867 70 Graduate (N=14) 166 Part-time fall enrollment 64 56 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 0 10 20 30 Number of students Your institution Comparison Group Median (N=38) Your institution NOTE: For details on calculating full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment, see Calculating FTE in the Methodological Notes at the end of this report. Total headcount, FTE, and fulland part-time fall enrollment include both undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students, when applicable. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall 2008, 12-month Enrollment component and Spring 2009, Fall Enrollment component. Figure 3. 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percent of students who are women Comparison Group Median NOTE: N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Fall Enrollment component. Percent of all students enrolled, by race/ethnicity: Fall 2008 Image description. Bar chart withPercent. 8 groups with 2 items per group. Y scale titled Group American Indian or Alaska Native. Item 1,1, Your institution 0.01. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) 0.01. Group Asian/Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander. Item 1,2, Your institution 12. Median Item 2, Comparison Group (N=38) 0.01. Group Black or African Item 2, 1,3, Your institution 70.American. Item Comparison Group Median (N=38) 94. Group Hispanic/Latino. Item 1,4, Your institution 1. Median (N=38) 1. Item 2, Comparison Group Group 5, White. Item institution 4. Median (N=38) 1. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Group Twoinstitution or more races. Item 1,6, Your 0.01.Median (N=38) 0.01. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Race/ethnicity unknown. Item 1,7, Your institution 11. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) 1. Group Nonresident alien. Item 1,8, Your institution 3. Median (N=38) 1. Item 2, Comparison Group Enrollment by race/ethnicity Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. 100 94 90 80 70 Percent 70 60 50 40 30 20 12 11 10 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 American Indian or Alaska Native Asian/Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander Black or African American Hispanic/Latino White Two or more races Race/ethnicity unknown Nonresident alien Enrollment by race/ethnicity Your institution Comparison Group Median (N=38) NOTE: For this survey year, institutions could report race and ethnicity using both 1977 (old) and 1997 (new) Office of Management and Budget categories. Categories shown in this figure are derived by adding comparable categories from both old and new; however, the "Two or more races" category appears only in the 1997 version. For more information about disaggregation of data by race and ethnicity, please see the Methodological Notes at the end of this report. Median values for the comparison group may not add to 100 percent. See "Use of Median Values for Comparison Group" in the Methodological Notes at the end of this report for how median values are determined. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Fall Enrollment component. Xavier University of Louisiana 3 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT Figure 4. Student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2008 Figure 5. Percent of applicants admitted, and percent of admissions enrolled by full- and part-time status: Fall 2008 Image description. AdmissionsBar measure Horizontal chart with 3 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Percent of students. Group Admitted. Item institution 66. Median (N=27) 48. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Enrolled fullGroup time. Item 1,2, Your institution 34. Median (N=27) 27. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Enrolled part time. Item 1,3, Your institution 0.01.Median (N=27) 0.01. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=27) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Horizontal BarFTE chart with 2 items. X scale titled students per FTE instructional staff. Item 1, Comparison Your institution 13. Median Item 2, Group (N=37) 15. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=37) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Admissions measure 66 Admitted 48 13 34 Student-to-faculty ratio Enrolled full time 27 15 0 Enrolled part time 0 0 5 10 15 20 0 10 20 30 40 FTE students per FTE instructional staff Your institution 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percent of students Comparison Group Median (N=37) Your institution Comparison Group Median (N=27) NOTE: Student-to-faculty ratio data is presented only for institutions that have undergraduate students; graduate only institutions are not included. For details on how the ratio is calculated, see the Methodological Notes. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Fall Enrollment component. NOTE: Admissions data are presented only for institutions that do not have an open admission policy, and apply to first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students only. For more information, see the Methodological Notes. Median values for the comparison group may not add to 100 percent. See "Use of Median Values for Comparison Group" for how median values are determined. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall 2008, Institutional Characteristics component. Figure 6. Figure 7. Academic year tuition and required fees for full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates: 2006-07–2008-09 Percent of students receiving Pell grants: 2007-08 Image description. Horizontal BarPercent chart with 2 items. X scale titled of51. students. Item 1, Comparison Your institution Item 2, Group Median (N=37) 70. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=37) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Academic year Horizontal BarTuition chart with groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled and 3 fees. Group 2008-09. Item 1, Comparison Your institution $15500. Item 2, Group Median (N=37) $11696. Group 2007-08. Item 1,2, Your institution $14700. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=37) $11560. Group 2006-07. Item 1,3, Your institution $13900. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=37) $11500. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=37) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Academic year $15,500 2008-09 $11,696 51 $14,700 2007-08 Pell Grants $11,560 70 $13,900 2006-07 $11,500 $0 $5,000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 0 10 Tuition and fees Your institution 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Percent of students Comparison Group Median (N=37) NOTE: The tuition and required fees shown here are the lowest reported from the categories of in-district, in-state, and out-of-state. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall 2008, Institutional Characteristics component. 20 Your institution Comparison Group Median (N=37) NOTE: N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Student Financial Aid component. Xavier University of Louisiana 4 100 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT Figure 8. Percent of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students receiving Federal, State/local, and Institutional grant aid, by type of grant: 2007-08 Image description. Type of grant aid Horizontal BarPercent chart with 6 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled students. Group Total grants.of66. Item institution Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Median (N=37) 89. Group Federal. Item 1,2, Your institution 60. Median (N=37) 76. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Pell.institution Item 1,3, Your 60. Median (N=37) 75. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Other Federal. Item 1,4, Your institution 56. Median (N=37) 37. Item 2, Comparison Group Group State and local. Item 1,5, Your institution 53. Median (N=37) 45. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Institutional. Item 2, 1,6, Your institution 55. Median (N=37) 41. Item Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=37) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Figure 9. Image description. Type of grant aid Horizontal BarGrant chartdollars. with 6 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Group Total grants (N=37). Item institution $12538. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Median $7227. Group Federal (N=37). Item 1,2, Your institution $4699. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $3945. Group Pellinstitution (N=37). Item 1,3, Your $3532. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $3291. Group Other Federal (N=35). Item 1,4, Your institution $1242. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $1298. Group State and local (N=35). Item 1,5, Your institution $3109. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $2677. Group Institutional (N=37). Item 2, 1,6, Your institution $6982. Item Comparison Group Median $4146. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Type of grant aid Type of grant aid 66 Total grants 60 Federal 60 56 55 20 30 40 50 $3,109 $2,677 $6,982 Institutional (N=37) 41 10 $1,242 $1,298 State and local (N=35) 53 45 Institutional $3,532 $3,291 Other Federal (N=35) 37 State and local $4,699 $3,945 Pell (N=37) 75 Other Federal $7,227 Federal (N=37) 76 Pell $12,538 Total grants (N=37) 89 0 Average amounts of Federal, State/local, and institutional grant aid received by full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates, by type of grant: 2007-08 60 70 80 90 100 $4,146 $0 $2,500 Percent of students Your institution $5,000 $7,500 $10,000 $12,500 $15,000 Grant dollars Comparison Group Median (N=37) Your institution Comparison Group Median NOTE: Pell Grants and Other Federal Grants are included in Federal Grants above. For details on how students are counted for financial aid reporting, see Cohort Determination for Reporting Student Financial Aid and Graduation Rates in the Methodological Notes at the end of this report. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Student Financial Aid component. NOTE: Pell Grants and Other Federal Grants are included in Federal Grants above. Average grant values were calculated by dividing the total grants awarded by the total number of recipients in each institution. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Student Financial Aid component. Figure 10. Percent of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students receiving loans, by type of loan: 2007-08 Figure 11. Average amounts of loans received by full-time, firsttime, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates, by type of loan: 2007-08 Image description. Type of loan Horizontal BarPercent chart withstudents. 3 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Group Anyinstitution loan. of67. Item 1, Comparison Your Item 2, Group Median (N=37) 80. Group Federal. Item 1,2, Your institution 66. Median (N=37) 79. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Non-federal. Item 1,3, Your institution 5. Median (N=37) 6. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=37) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Type of loan Horizontal BarLoan chart with 3 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Group Anyinstitution loan dollars. (N=36). Item 1, Comparison Your $8468. Item 2, Group Median $5333. Group Federal (N=35). Item 1,2, Your institution $7833. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $4877. Group Non-federal (N=28). Item 1,3, Your institution $9416. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $7804. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Type of loan Type of loan 67 80 66 $5,333 $7,833 Federal (N=35) Federal 79 5 $4,877 $9,416 Non-federal (N=28) Non-federal 6 0 $8,468 Any loan (N=36) Any loan 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 $7,804 $0 Percent of students Your institution $4,000 $6,000 $8,000 $10,000 Loan dollars Comparison Group Median (N=37) NOTE: For details on how students are counted for financial aid reporting, see Cohort Determination for Reporting Student Financial Aid and Graduation Rates in the Methodological Notes at the end of this report. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Student Financial Aid component. $2,000 Your institution Comparison Group Median NOTE: Average loan values were calculated by dividing the total loans awarded by the total number of recipients in each institution. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Student Financial Aid component. Xavier University of Louisiana 5 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT Figure 12. Retention rates of first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students, by enrollment status: Fall 2008 Figure 13. Graduation rate cohort as a percent of all undergraduates and as a percent of total entering students (Fall 2008); graduation rate and transfer-out rate (2002 cohort) Image description. EnrollmentBar status of with student Horizontal chart 2 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Retention rate. Group Full-time (N=37). Item institution 73. Median 58. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Group Part-time (N=30). Item 1,2, Your institution 100.Median 39. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Measure Horizontal BarPercent. chart with 4 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Group Graduation rate as a percent of undergraduates (N=37). Item institution 31.cohort Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Median Group Graduation rate as 28. a percent of total entering students (N=37). Item 1,2, Your institution 86.cohort Item 2, Comparison Group Median(N=37). 84. Group Graduation rate, Item 1,3, Your institution 35. overall Item 2, Comparison Group Median Group Transfer-out rate (N=6). 31. Item 1,4, Your institution No data. Item 2, Comparison Group Median 11. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Enrollment status of student Measure Graduation rate cohort as a percent of undergraduates (N=37) 73 31 28 Full-time (N=37) Graduation rate cohort as a percent of total entering students (N=37) 58 86 84 Graduation rate, overall (N=37) 100 35 31 Part-time (N=30) 39 0 10 20 30 40 Transfer-out rate (N=6) 50 60 70 80 90 100 11 0 10 20 30 40 Retention rate Your institution 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percent Comparison Group Median Your institution NOTE: Retention rates are measured from the fall of first enrollment to the following fall. 4yr institutions report retention rates for students seeking a bachelor's degree. For more information, see the Methodological Notes at the end of this report. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Fall Enrollment component. Comparison Group Median NOTE: Graduation rate cohort includes all full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students. Entering class includes all students coming to the institution for the first time. Only institutions with a mission to prepare students to transfer are required to report transfers out. Graduation and transfer-out rates are the Student Right-to-Know rates. For more information, see the Methodological Notes. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Graduation Rates component and Fall Enrollment component. Figure 14. Graduation rates of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates within 150% of normal time to program completion, by race/ethnicity: 2002 cohort Image description. Bar chart withPercent. 9 groups with 2 items per group. Y scale titled Group Graduation rate, (N=37). Item 1,1, Your institution 35. overall Item 2, Comparison Group Median Group American Indian Alaska31. Native (N=4). Item 1,2, Your institution No or data. Item 2, Comparison Group Median 100. Islander (N=6). Group Asian/ Native Hawaiian /Pacific Item 2, 1,3, Your institution 18. Item Comparison Group Median 17. Group Black or African (N=37). Item 1,4, Your institution 37. American Item 2, Comparison Group Median 31. Group 5, Hispanic /Latino (N=20). Item institution 0.01. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Median 0.01. Group White (N=16). Item 1,6, Your institution 0.01.Median 6. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Twoinstitution or more races (N=1). Item 1,7, Your No data. Item 2, Comparison Group Median(N=13). No data. Group Race/ethnicity unknown Item 1,8, Your institution 35. Item 2, Comparison Group Median Group Nonresident alien (N=24).47. Item 1,9, Your institution 14. Median Item 2, Comparison Group 51. Graduation rates by race/ethnicity Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. 100 100 90 80 Percent 70 60 40 51 47 50 35 37 31 35 31 30 18 20 17 14 6 10 0 0 0 0 Graduation rate, overall (N=37) American Indian or Alaska Native (N=4) Asian/ Native Hawaiian /Pacific Islander (N=6) Black or African American (N=37) Hispanic /Latino (N=20) White (N=16) Two or more races (N=1) Race/ethnicity unknown (N=13) Nonresident alien (N=24) Graduation rates by race/ethnicity Your institution Comparison Group Median NOTE: For this survey year, institutions could report race and ethnicity using both 1977 (old) and 1997 (new) Office of Management and Budget categories. Categories shown in this figure are derived by adding comparable categories from both old and new; however, the "Two or more races" category appears only in the 1997 version. For more information about disaggregation of data by race and ethnicity, please see the Methodological Notes at the end of this report. The graduation rates are the Student Right-to-Know (SRK) rates. For more information see the Methodological Notes at the end of the report. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. At least three values in the comparison group are required to calculate the median. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Graduation Rates component. Xavier University of Louisiana 6 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT Figure 15. Bachelor's degree graduation rates of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates within 4 years, 6 years, and 8 years: 2000 cohort Figure 16. Number of degrees awarded, by level: Academic year 2007-08 Image description. Time to program completion Horizontal BarGraduation chart with 3 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled rate. Group 4 years. Item institution 24. Median (N=37) 16. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Group 6 years. Item 1,2, Your institution 38. Median (N=37) 31. Item 2, Comparison Group Group 8 years. Item 1,3, Your institution 39. Median (N=37) 35. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=37) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Level of degree Horizontal BarNumber chart with 4 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled of degrees. Group Doctor's. Item institution 152.Median (N=38) 0.01. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Group Master's. Item 1,2, Your institution 31. Median (N=38) 0.01. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Bachelor's. Item 1,3, Your institution 343.Median (N=38) 130. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Associate's. Item 1,4, Your institution 0.01.Median (N=38) 0.01. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Time to program completion Level of degree 152 24 Doctor's 4 years 0 16 31 Master's 0 38 6 years 31 343 Bachelor's 130 39 8 years 0 Associate's 35 0 10 20 30 0 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 100 Graduation rate Your institution 200 300 400 Number of degrees Comparison Group Median (N=37) Your institution Comparison Group Median (N=38) NOTE: The 4-year and 6-year graduation rates are the Student Right-to-Know (SRK) rates; the 8-year rate is calculated using the same methodology. For more information see the Methodological Notes at the end of the report. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Graduation Rates component. NOTE: N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall 2008, Completions component. Figure 17. Full-time equivalent staff, by assigned position: Fall 2008 Figure 18. Average salaries of full-time instructional staff equated to 9-month contracts, by academic rank: Academic year 2008-09 Image description. Staff category Horizontal BarNumber chart with 4 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled of staff. Group Instruction/ research/ public service. Item 1, Comparison Your institution 221.Median Item 2, Group (N=38) 70. Group Executive/ administrative/ managerial. Item 1,2, Your institution 61. Median (N=38) Item 2, Comparison Group 24. Group Other professional. Item 1,3, Your institution 226.Median (N=38) 51. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Non-professional. Item 1,4, Your institution 178.Median (N=38) 62. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Academic rank Horizontal BarAverage chart with 7 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled salary. Group All ranks (N=38). Item 1, Comparison Your institution $62686. Item 2, Group Median $44284. Group Professor (N=38). Item 1,2, Your institution $84202. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $52500. Group Associate professor (N=38). Item 1,3, Your institution $65583. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $47752. Group Assistant professor (N=38). Item 1,4, Your institution $57611. Item 2, Comparison Group Median $42166. Group Instructor (N=36). Item 2, 1,5, Your institution $44206. Item Comparison Group Median $36731. Group Lecturer (N=10). Item 1,6, Your institution $38107. Item 2, Comparison Group Median Group 7, No institution academic rankdata. (N=6).$37460. Item 1, Your No Item 2, Comparison Group Median $46616. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Staff category Academic rank Instruction/ research/ public service $62,686 All ranks (N=38) 221 $44,284 70 $84,202 Professor (N=38) Executive/ administrative/ managerial $52,500 $65,583 Associate professor (N=38) 61 $47,752 24 $57,611 Assistant professor (N=38) 226 Other professional Lecturer (N=10) 178 Non-professional $38,107 $37,460 No academic rank (N=6) 62 50 $44,206 $36,731 Instructor (N=36) 51 0 $42,166 100 150 200 250 $46,616 $0 Number of staff Your institution $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000 Average salary Comparison Group Median (N=38) NOTE: Graduate assistants are not included in this figure. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Winter 2008-09, Human Resources component. $20,000 Your institution Comparison Group Median NOTE: Average full-time instructional staff salaries for 11/12-month contracts were adjusted to 9-month average salaries by multiplying the 11/12-month salary by .8182. Salaries based on less than 9-month contracts are not included. Medical school staff salaries are not included. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Winter 2008-09, Human Resources component. Xavier University of Louisiana 7 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT Figure 19. Percent distribution of core revenues, by source: Fiscal year 2008 Figure 20. Core revenues per FTE enrollment, by source: Fiscal year 2008 Image description. Revenue source Horizontal BarPercent. chart with 5 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Group Tuition and fees. Item institution 43. Median (N=38) 44. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Group Government grants and contracts. Item 1,2, Your institution 42. Median Item 2, Comparison Group (N=38) 27. Group Private gifts, grants, and contracts. Item 1,3, Your institution 15. Median Item 2, Comparison Group (N=38) 17. Group Investment return. Item 1,4, Your institution -7. Median (N=38) -1. Item 2, Comparison Group Other core Group revenues. Item 1,5, Your institution 8. Median (N=38) 3. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Revenue source Horizontal BarDollars chart with 5 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled FTE. Group Tuition and per fees. Item institution $10654. Item 1, 2, Your Comparison Group Median (N=38) $8870. Group Government grants and contracts. Item 1,2, Your institution $10389. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) $4281. Group Private gifts, grants, and contracts. Item 1,3, Your institution $3686. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) $3015. Group Investment return. Item 1,4, Your institution $-1699. Item 2, Comparison Median (N=38) $-262. Group Other core Group revenues. Item 1,5, Your institution $1919. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) $458. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Revenue source Revenue source 43 44 Tuition and fees 42 Government grants and contracts 15 17 8 Other core revenues 0 -$262 $1,919 Other core revenues 3 -10 $3,686 $3,015 -$1,699 Investment return -1 -20 $10,389 $4,281 Private gifts, grants, and contracts -7 Investment return $8,870 Government grants and contracts 27 Private gifts, grants, and contracts $10,654 Tuition and fees 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 $458 -$2,500 $0 $2,500 Percent Your institution $5,000 $7,500 $10,000 $12,500 Dollars per FTE Comparison Group Median (N=38) Your institution Comparison Group Median (N=38) NOTE: The comparison group median is based on those members of the comparison group that report finance data using the same accounting standards as the focus institution. For a detailed definition of core revenues, see the Methodological Notes. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Finance component. NOTE: The comparison group median is based on those members of the comparison group that report finance data using the same accounting standards as the focus institution. For details on calculating FTE enrollment and a detailed definition of core revenues, see the Methodological Notes. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall 2008, 12-month Enrollment component and Spring 2009, Finance component. Figure 21. Percent distribution of core expenses, by function: Fiscal year 2008 Figure 22. Core expenses per FTE enrollment, by function: Fiscal year 2008 Image description. Expense function Horizontal BarPercent. chart with 7 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled Group Instruction. Item 1, Comparison Your institution 25. Median (N=38) 30. Item 2, Group Group Research. Item 1,2, Your institution 6. Median (N=38) 0.01. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Public service. Item 1,3, Your institution 3. Median (N=38) 1. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Academic support. Item 1,4, Your institution 12. Median (N=38) 8. Item 2, Comparison Group Group Institutional suport. Item 2, 1,5, Your institution 31. Median (N=38) 31. Item Comparison Group Group Student services. Item 1,6, Your institution 10. Median (N=38) 13. Item 2, Comparison Group 7, Other core Group expenses. Item 1, Your institution 12. Median (N=38) 0.01. Item 2, Comparison Group Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Image description. Expense function Horizontal BarDollars chart with 7 groups with 2 items per group. X scale1,titled per FTE. Group Instruction. Item 1, Comparison Your institution $5891. Item 2, Group Median (N=38) $6208. Group Research. Item 1,2, Your institution $1507. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) $0.01. Group Public service. Item 1,3, Your institution $758. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) $120. Group Academic support. Item 1,4, Your institution $2867. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) $1457. Group Institutional support. Item 2, 1,5, Your institution $7263. Item Comparison Group Median (N=38) $5968. Group Student services. Item 1,6, Your institution $2261. Item 2, Comparison Median (N=38) $2330. Group 7, Other core Group expenses. Item 1, Your institution $2832. Item 2, Comparison Group Median (N=38) $0.01. Shape line, Label: Shape InstitutionLegend, Label: Your institution Shape ComparisonGroupLegend, Label: Comparison Group Median (N=38) Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine1, Label: Shape ComparisonGroupLegendLine2, Label: End of image description. Expense function Expense function 25 Instruction Research 6 Research 0 3 Public service 12 31 31 Institutional suport 12 10 $7,263 $5,968 $2,261 $2,330 Student services 13 Other core expenses 0 $2,867 $1,457 Institutional support 10 0 $758 $120 Academic support 8 Student services $1,507 $0 Public service 1 Academic support $2,832 Other core expenses $0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 $0 Percent Your institution $5,891 $6,208 Instruction 30 $4,000 $6,000 $8,000 Dollars per FTE Comparison Group Median (N=38) NOTE: The comparison group median is based on those members of the comparison group that report finance data using the same accounting standards as the focus institution. For a detailed definition of core expenses, see the Methodological Notes. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Spring 2009, Finance component. $2,000 Your institution Comparison Group Median (N=38) NOTE: The comparison group median is based on those members of the comparison group that report finance data using the same accounting standards as the focus institution. Expenses per full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment, particularly instruction, may be inflated because finance data includes all core expenses while FTE reflects credit activity only. For details on calculating FTE enrollment and a detailed definition of core expenses, see the Methodological Notes. N is the number of institutions in the comparison group. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall 2008, 12-month Enrollment component and Spring 2009, Finance component. Xavier University of Louisiana 8 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT COMPARISON GROUP The custom comparison group chosen by Xavier University of Louisiana includes the following 38 institutions: Allen University (Columbia, SC) Benedict College (Columbia, SC) Bennett College for Women (Greensboro, NC) Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona Beach, FL) Claflin University (Orangeburg, SC) Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, GA) Dillard University (New Orleans, LA) Edward Waters College (Jacksonville, FL) Fisk University (Nashville, TN) Florida Memorial University (Miami Gardens, FL) Huston-Tillotson University (Austin, TX) Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, GA) Jarvis Christian College (Hawkins, TX) Johnson C Smith University (Charlotte, NC) Lane College (Jackson, TN) Le Moyne-Owen College (Memphis, TN) Livingstone College (Salisbury, NC) Miles College (Fairfield, AL) Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) Morris College (Sumter, SC) Oakwood University (Huntsville, AL) Paine College (Augusta, GA) Paul Quinn College (Dallas, TX) Philander Smith College (Little Rock, AR) Rust College (Holly Springs, MS) Saint Augustines College (Raleigh, NC) Saint Pauls College (Lawrenceville, VA) Shaw University (Raleigh, NC) Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) Stillman College (Tuscaloosa, AL) Talladega College (Talladega, AL) Texas College (Tyler, TX) Tougaloo College (Tougaloo, MS) Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, AL) Virginia Union University (Richmond, VA) Voorhees College (Denmark, SC) Wilberforce University (Wilberforce, OH) Wiley College (Marshall, TX) Xavier University of Louisiana 9 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT METHODOLOGICAL NOTES Postbaccalaureate Degree Categories Overview In 2008-09 IPEDS, new postbaccalaureate degree categories were introduced as optional. The new categories are Doctor’s degreeResearch/scholarship, Doctor’s degree-Professional practice, and Doctor’s degree-Other. In addition, the First-professional degree and certificate categories and the single Doctor’s degree category are being phased out. During the transition period, all First-professional students are reflected as graduate students, all First-professional degrees awarded are reflected as Doctor’s degrees, and all Doctor’s degrees reported under the new categories are aggregated under a single Doctor’s degree category, so that data reported by all institutions are comparable. This report is based on data supplied by institutions to IPEDS during the 2008-09 survey year. Response rates exceeded 99 percent for most surveys. Detailed response tables are included in IPEDS First Look reports, which can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/getpubcats.asp?sid=010. Comparison Groups Cohort Determination for Reporting Student Financial Aid and Graduation Rates Comparison group data are included to provide a context for interpreting your institution’s statistics. If your institution did not define a Custom Comparison Group for this report by July 14, NCES selected a comparison group for you based on the institutional characteristics detailed immediately above the listing of the comparison group institutions. (If the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education was used as an institutional characteristic in the definition of a comparison group, the 2005 Basic version was used.) The comparison group used in this report may not reflect your institution’s peer group, or you may wish to compare your institution to other groups. The Executive Peer Tool (ExPT) (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/) can be used to reproduce the figures in this report using different peer groups. Student cohorts for reporting Student Financial Aid and Graduation Rates data are based on the reporting type of the institution. For institutions that report based on an academic year (those operating on standard academic terms), student counts and cohorts are based on fall term data. Student counts and cohorts for program reporters (those that do not operate on standard academic terms) are based on unduplicated counts of students enrolled during a full 12-month period. Description of Statistics Used in the Figures Use of Median Values for Comparison Group Core Expenses The value for the focus institution is compared to the median value for the comparison group for each statistic included in the figure. If more than one statistic is presented in a figure, the median values are determined separately for each indicator or statistic. Where percentage distributions are presented, median values may not add to 100 percent. Through the ExPT, users have access to all of the data used to create the figures included in this report. Core expenses for public institutions using the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) standards include expenses for instruction, research, public service, academic support, institutional support, student services, operation and maintenance of plant, depreciation, scholarships and fellowships, other expenses, and nonoperating expenses. Core expenses for private, not-for-profit and public institutions reporting under the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) standards include expenses for instruction, research, public service, academic support, student services, institutional support, net grant aid to students, and other expenses. For all institutions, core expenses exclude expenses for auxiliary enterprises (e.g., bookstores, dormitories), hospitals, and independent operations. Expenses for operation and maintenance of plant for GASB institutions are included in other core expenses, but are allocated to each of the other functions for FASB institutions. Missing Statistics If a statistic is not reported for your institution, the omission indicates that the statistic is not relevant to your institution and the data were not collected. As such, not all notes listed below may be applicable to your report. Core Revenues Use of Imputed Data Core revenues for public institutions reporting under GASB standards include tuition and fees; government appropriations (federal, state, and local); government grants and contracts; private gifts, grants, and contracts; investment income; other operating and nonoperating sources; and other revenues and additions. Core revenues for private, not-for-profit institutions (and a small number of public institutions) reporting under FASB include tuition and fees; government appropriations (federal, state, and local); government grants and contracts; private gifts, grants, and contracts; investment return; sales and services of educational activities; and other sources. Core revenues for private, for-profit institutions reporting under FASB standards include tuition and fees; government appropriations (federal, state, and local); government grants and contracts; private grants and contracts; net investment income; sales and services of educational activities; and other sources. In general, core revenues exclude revenues from auxiliary enterprises (e.g., bookstores, dormitories), hospitals, and independent operations. All IPEDS data are subject to imputation for total (institutional) and partial (item) nonresponse. If necessary, imputed values were used to prepare your report. Data Confidentiality IPEDS data are not collected under a pledge of confidentiality. Disaggregation of Data by Race/Ethnicity When applicable, some statistics are disaggregated by race/ethnicity. Between survey years 2008-09 and 2010-11, the categories used for the collection and reporting of race/ethnicity data in IPEDS are transitioning to those developed in 1997 by the Office of Management and Budget, and institutions may report using either those categories, the older (1977) categories, or a mixture of both. Therefore, during the transition, only derived categories that present comparable data will be displayed. Detailed information about these changes can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reic/resource.asp. Xavier University of Louisiana 10 IPEDS DATA FEEDBACK REPORT Endowment Assets Endowment assets, for public institutions under GASB standards, and private, not-for-profit institutions under FASB standards, include gross investments of endowment funds, term endowment funds, and funds functioning as endowment for the institution and any of its foundations and other affiliated organizations. Private, for-profit institutions under FASB do not hold or report endowment assets. Equated Instructional Staff Salaries Total salary outlays for full-time instructional staff on 11/12-month contracts were equated to 9/10-month outlays by multiplying the outlay for 11/12month contracted instructional staff by 0.8182. The equated outlays were then added to the outlays for 9/10-month instructional staff to determine an average salary for each rank. Salaries for staff on less-than-9-month contracts are not included. institution the following fall (as either full- or part-time), divided by the total number of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates in the fall of first entrance. Part-time retention rates are similarly defined. For 4 -year institutions offering a bachelor’s degree, this rate is reported only for those students seeking a bachelor’s degree. For less than 4-year institutions, the rate is calculated for all degree/certificate-seeking students. Salaries, Wages, and Benefits Salaries, wages, and benefits, for public institutions under GASB standards, and private, not-for-profit institutions under FASB standards, include amounts paid as compensation for services to all employees regardless of the duration of service, and amounts made to or on behalf of an individual over and above that received in the form of a salary or wage. Frequently, benefits are associated with an insurance payment. Private, for -profit institutions under FASB standards do not report salaries. Student-to-Faculty Ratio FTE for Enrollment The full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment used in this report is the sum of the institution’s FTE undergraduate enrollment and FTE graduate enrollment (as calculated from or reported on the 2007-08 12-month Enrollment component) plus the estimated FTE of first-professional students. Undergraduate and graduate FTE are estimated using 12-month instructional activity (credit and/or contact hours). If applicable, firstprofessional FTE is estimated by calculating the ratio of full-time to parttime first-professional students from the 2007 fall counts and applying this ratio to the 2007-08 12-month unduplicated headcount of first-professional students. The estimated number of full-time students is added to one-third of the estimated number of part-time students. See “Calculation of FTE Students (using instructional activity)” in the IPEDS Glossary at http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/glossary/. An institution’s student-to-faculty ratio is calculated by determining the number of FTE students (using Fall Enrollment data) divided by the total FTE instructional staff (using the total Primarily instruction + Instruction/research/public service staff reported on the EAP section of the Human Resources component). For this calculation, FTE for students is equal to the number of full-time students plus one-third the number of parttime students; FTE for instructional staff is similarly calculated. Students enrolled in "stand-alone" graduate or professional programs and instructional staff teaching in these programs are excluded from the FTE calculations. "Stand-alone" graduate or professional programs are those programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, or public health, in which faculty teach virtually only graduate-level students (also referred to as "independent" programs). Total Entering (Undergraduate-Level) Students FTE for Staff The full-time equivalent (FTE) of staff is calculated by summing the total number of full-time staff from the Employees by Assigned Position (EAP) section of the Human Resources component and adding one-third of the total number of part-time staff. Total entering students are students at the undergraduate level, both fulland part-time, coming into the institution for the first time in the fall term (or the prior summer term who returned again in the fall). This includes all firsttime undergraduate students, students transferring into the institution at the undergraduate level, and non-degree/certificate seeking undergraduates entering in the fall. Only degree-granting institutions report total entering students. Graduation Rates and Transfer-out Rate Graduation rates are those developed to satisfy the requirements of the Student Right-to-Know and Higher Education Opportunity Acts and are defined as the total number of individuals from a given cohort of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates who completed a degree or certificate within a given percent of normal time (for the degree or certificate) before the ending status date of August 31, 2008, divided by the entire cohort of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates minus any allowable exclusions. Institutions are permitted to exclude from the initial cohort students who died or were totally and permanently disabled; those who left school to serve in the armed forces or were called to active duty; those who left to serve with a foreign aid service of the federal government, such as the Peace Corps; and those who left to serve on an official church mission. Transfer-out rate is the total number of students from the cohort who are known to have transferred out of the reporting institution within the same time period, divided by the same adjusted cohort. Only institutions with a mission that includes preparing students to transfer are required to report transfers out. Retention Rates Full-time retention rates are defined as the number of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students who enter the institution for the first time in the fall and who return to the same Tuition and Required Fees Tuition is defined as the amount of money charged to students for instructional services; required fees are those fixed sum charges to students for items not covered by tuition that are required of such a large proportion of all students that the student who does not pay the charge is an exception. The amounts used in this report are for full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates and are those used by the financial aid office to determine need. For institutions that have differential tuition rates for in-district or in-state students, the lowest tuition rate is used in the figure. Only institutions that operate on standard academic terms will have tuition figures included in their report. Additional Methodological Information Additional methodological information on the IPEDS components can be found in the publications available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/getpubcats.asp?sid=010. Additional definitions of variables used in this report can be found in the IPEDS online glossary available at http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/glossary/. Xavier University of Louisiana 11 www.ed.gov Institute for Education Sciences ies.ed.gov National Center for Education Statistics nces.ed.gov Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System nces.ed.gov/ipeds Dr. Norman C. Francis, President Xavier University of Louisiana (ID: 160904) One Drexel Drive New Orleans, LA 70125-1098