The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education
community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Peterson's, and U.S.
News & World Report. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the
quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student's transition
into higher education, as well as to reduce the reporting burden on data providers.
The CDS is a set of standards and definitions of data items rather than a survey
instrument or set of data represented in a database. Each of the higher education
surveys conducted by the participating publishers incorporates items from the CDS
as well as unique items proprietary to each publisher.
The Integrated Post secondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is the core post secondary
education data collection program for the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES). Data is collected from all primary providers of post secondary education
in the country in such areas as enrollments, program completions, graduation rates,
faculty, staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid. This
data is made available on the IPEDS web site to students, researchers and others.
Components Include:
- IC - Institutional Characteristics
- C - Completions
- EF - Enrollment
- GRS - Graduation Rates
- SFA - Student Financial Aid
- HR - Human Resources
- F – Finance
The IPEDS Data Center is a consumer information tool designed to enable students, institutions, university administrators to compare a post secondary institution to a customizable group of peer or aspirational institutions. It provides a variety of analytical features for peer analysis. This includes the ability to create new calculated variables, to sort and rank schools based on the data items selected, and to view standard report templates.
A summary level snapshot of the data results are provided to the institutions each year. The following are the IPEDS Data Feedback Reports (DFRs) for KSU:
Part of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing education-related
data. NCES fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, analyze, and report statistics
on American education; conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education
activities internationally.
The Education Trust advances its mission along several fronts, from raising its voice in national and
state policy debates to helping teachers improve instruction in their classrooms.
Regardless of where it occurs, the Education Trust’s work maintains a relentless
focus on improving the education of all students, and particularly those students
whom the system has traditionally left behind.
The Education Trust provides:
- Advocacy that encourages schools, colleges, and whole communities to mount effective
campaigns so that all their students will reach high levels of academic achievement.
- Analysis and expert testimony on policies intended to improve education; and writing
and speaking for professional and general audiences about educational patterns and
practices — both those that cause and those that close achievement gaps between
groups of students.
- Research and wide public dissemination of data identifying achievement patterns
among different groups of students.
- Assistance to school districts, colleges, and community-based organizations to help
their efforts at raising student achievement, especially among minority and poor
students.
The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is the recognized regional accrediting
body in the eleven U.S. Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia) and
in Latin America for those institutions of higher education that award associate,
baccalaureate, master's or doctoral degrees.
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) provides institutions with a means of measuring how much time and effort students put into their studies and other educationally purposefully activities. The following are the results for KSU:
