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Institutional Research (IR) Advisory Board, November 6, 2013
CU-Boulder Office of Planning, Budget, and Analysis
First Wednesday of odd numbered months during the academic year from 10-12 in the PBA Conference Room
Schedule for 2013-14: 9/4/13 11/6/13, 1/8/14 (not first week), 3/5/14, 5/7/14
Survey (Fran) http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/index.htm
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NSSE – CU-Boulder data released in October 2013 with a NSSE provided AAUDE peer comparison report. Phase I
peer comparisons in December 2013 with phase 2 occurring in January 2014. We requested the following NSSE
major field comparisons.
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AAUDE Graduate Student Exit Survey – CGS and AAU initiative to have all AAU institution participate in in this
exchange item. Fran is working with John Stevenson, Gretchen O’Connell, and Ginny Borst on question selection,
population, and timeframe. Targeted launch date is March 2014 for this annual survey.
Rankings (Fran) http://www.colorado.edu/pba/perfmeas/RatingsRankings.html
 Time Higher Education (THE) released October 2013
 U.S. News and World Reports released September 2013
Fall 2013 Census Enrollment Summary (Perry and Rob)
 Overall enrollment highlights with comparisons to fall 2012
o Freshman class of summer/fall 2013:
 Total 5,844, an increase of 375 (6.9%) over summer/fall 2012
 3,188 residents (up 4.7%) and 2,656 nonresidents (up 9.6%)
 273 international freshmen, a 60% increase
 China 102, Saudi Arabia 39, Kuwait 18, Norway 11, India 7. Total of 46 countries.
 789 Esteemed Scholars -- new merit scholarship program for Colorado residents.
$5,000/$3,500/$2,500 per year, renewable, based on test scores/high school grades. Estimated
100+ additional highly qualified resident frosh, from yield increases among qualifying students.
 More ethnic diversity – minorities up 12%, and constitute a higher percentage of this year’s
freshmen than last year’s (23% vs. 22%). Asian Americans up 14%, African Americans up 20%,
Hispanic up 13%.
 About 16% first generation, similar to recent prior years.
o Undergraduate transfers:
 809 resident and 487 nonresident transfers, total 1,296, an 8% increase.
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New graduate students
 1,299 new graduate students in fall 2013 compared to 1,353 in fall 2012. Declining grad enrollment
national trend.
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Total enrollment
 29, 325 degree- and licensure-seeking students, up 47 from last fall.
 Undergrad total 24,418 (up 172, 0.9%). Grad total 4,907, down 179 (3.5%).
 Minority enrollment up 371 (7%) compared to 2012.
Other items of interest
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ASSET students – a total of 16 undergraduate students benefited from the ASSET legislation.
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Pre-engineering students in the College of Arts & Sciences- 525 new freshmen.
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Computer Science-BA – 68 new A&S freshmen with this major
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There are two student groups defined and in use to track students impacted by the flood – withdrawal and
impacted
Admissions (Perry and Rob) http://www.colorado.edu/pba/adm/pw/
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Common Application new to UCB this year.
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Total applicants as of Saturday 5,056, up 47% from last year at same time. Res up 17%, NR up 62%.
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50% of res apps and 77% of NR apps via the Common Application.
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Issues with getting complete Common App data loaded on our system; over 90% of CA apps are incomplete at
this time.
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Peer comparisons – Lots of institutions use CA but relatively few of our peers (large flagship publics). Michigan,
North Carolina, Ohio State probably closest comps. OSU for first time fall ’13. UNC and Michigan had 30%+ increase
in NR apps, relatively small yield drops.
New and updated IR postings (Blake, Fran, Perry)
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Sub-plans grouped by plan/major and count by term (Blake)
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/records/time/subplans_detail.xlsx
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Overtime since the implementation of CU-SIS in fall 2010
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Useful for tracking plan options or areas of concentration
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Questions: How can we make this information more useful to campus users?
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Minors (Blake) http://www.colorado.edu/pba/records/time/minors_detail.xlsx
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Useful to units to gauge total demand
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STEM (Fran and Blake) http://www.colorado.edu/pba/concepts/stem.htm
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No national standard to define STEM disciplines but two federal agencies lists relevant CIP codes
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National Science Foundation (NSF) and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) issue separate lists
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Maintain both lists for Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) and campus reporting
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Graduation rates (Perry)
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http://www.colorado.edu/pba/records/gradrt/
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Overall 6-year grad rate for frosh entering in 2007 was 70%, the highest ever.
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73% for residents (also a new high), 65% for NR (equaling high).
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4-year grad rate for frosh entering 2009 was 47%, new record for third consecutive year.
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One-year retention for frosh entering 2012 was 85%, equaling high since 1990.
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Graduate student cumulative loan debt (Perry) http://www.colorado.edu/pba/adm/cumdebtGrad.xlsx
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Undergrad cumulative loan debt – updated through FY 2013 bach recipients, will be posted later today.
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/records/debt/loandebt.htm
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RAP and academic performance (Perry)
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/records/gradrt/RAPOutcomesPosting2013.docx
Employee Counts and Compensation Analysis (Glenn)
 Why conduct compensation analyses?
o Finding and retaining high-quality faculty and other personnel
o Goal: To provide administration with data and information on the status of compensation for our
employees
 Consideration
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In academia, most attention is given to an individual’s paid salary, but a university employee’s
compensation includes not only the individual’s base salary, but also fringe benefits such as health care
and retirement
Preparing to conduct different types of salary equity studies
 External
o Are the current salaries paid to faculty and staff at CU Boulder fair relative to comparable
institutions?
o Studies rely on descriptive statistics
 Internal
o Are faculty and staff treated equitably within CU Boulder relative to each other with regard to
gender, race, age, etc.
o Studies use multivariate statistics
Recent progress
o Significant improvements in process for collecting and integrating employee data, especially
 Institution and other additional appointments
 Total fiscal year salaries
 Integrating external sources of data: IPEDS, AAUP, CUPA, etc.
 Payments made to employees beyond base salary (from work on STAR METRICS data
submissions)
 Ability to look at data over time
o Have identified key resources for conducting salary equity studies
 Literature – provides frameworks and specific techniques
 Working with Torrey Tiburzi (Affirmative Action Officer)
FCQ (Fanchon)
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Analysis of RAP optional questions administered in spring 2013
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Distributed to RAP units undergoing Academic Review and Planning in fall 2013
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Similar to analysis performed in 2001 for RAP units
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These results are not posted to the PBA website but for internal use
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Exploring the feasibility of using bar codes instead of slugging on FCQ forms
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Printing services and campus scanning support this change
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Provides FCQ staff the ability to encode more information on the form
Data Visualization Using Tableau (Glenn)
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Employee counts by job group since 2001
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Allows users to perform a unit search by department ID or name
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Users can limit on job group(s)
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We are seeking feedback before posting this visualization to the IR website.
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Questions: How can we make this information more useful to campus users?
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AAU public peers v. CU-Boulder average faculty salary by unit and rank
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Uses current postings to create an overtime visualization
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We are seeking feedback before posting this visualization to the IR website.
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Questions: How can we make this information more useful to campus users?
Members
A&S: Amy Lavens, Richard Nishikawa
Business: Kelly Fowler
Engineering: Terry Mayes
INSTAAR: Shelly Sommer
Government Relations: Ben Webster
Media Relations: Bronson Hilliard, Malinda Miller Huey,
Erin Frazier
Dean of Students: Christina Gonzales
Campus Budget & Finance: Elaine Waters
Graduate School: Merlyn Holmes
ODECE: Alphonse Keasley
Orientation: Jim Davis-Rosenthal
Undergraduate Education: Mike Grant
Faculty Affairs: Liz Tomich
Admissions: Jack Kroll//Kevin M
Financial Aid: Gwen Pomper/Ofelia Morelas
Wardenburg Health Center: Julie Volckens
OIT: Marin Stanek/Mark Werner
Registrar: Christy Samford/ Barb Todd
Undergraduate Education: Deb Viles
CU-Denver: Christine Stroup-Benham
CU System: Jill Taylor
PBA: Steve McNally
IR: Blake, Fanchon, Fran, Glenn, Perry, Rob
Budget: Erika Smith/Dana T
University Communications: Frances Draper
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