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NRC and other data on PhD programs

Graduate education data activities of the AAU, AAUDE, AAU IDC, and AGS

-- Status and working documents, July 2008:  Notes and handouts from AAUDE grad ed working group (from the meeting 7/10/08, Minneapolis), from the AAU graduate education implementation task force meeting, June 27 2008, Washington DC, and working documents for task force and AAUDE work group.   Password-protected.  To request a password  please contact [IR@colorado.edu].-

-- From AAUDE annual meeting, Lincoln, April 2008.  Presentation (status report on exchange items and more).   Timetable of relevant events 2003-present. 

Activities relevant to NRC student of research doctorates

Julie Carpenter-Hubin of Ohio State University and Lou McClelland of the University of Colorado at Boulder have been monitoring NRC progress and issues for AAUDE, the AAU data exchange. Posted here are memos and notes reflecting the process at the time noted. None have been updated since the date noted; issues raised in them may now be moot.

• Calendar of NRC collection events 2006-2008 (PDF), as of 3/20/08 - Courtesy of Cathy Lebo of Johns Hopkins



• Institutional handling of program questionnaire items E3 and E4, on financial support. AAUDE and Colonial, January 2008.

• From and following CGS (Council of Graduate Schools) meeting, December 2007
  - Notes from presentations
  - Issues related to the notes on presentations

• NRC data validation plans, 12-4-07

• NRC Program Questionnaire data - all program questionnaire results from institutions agreeing to be part of the AAUDE NRC data sharing (download as SAS and/or SPSS datasets)
  Please email Julie Carpenter-Hubin to request the user ID and password
  - Institution by all programs data with NRC field as of 1/28/08 SAS SPSS
  - HEDS institution by all programs data as of 1/28/08 SAS SPSS
  - Chemistry and philosophy data with NRC field as of 1/28/08 SAS SPSS
  - Schools exchanging data
  - Data sharing rules -  AAUDEColonialIRDataSharingRules.xls as of 1/28/08



• From the 10/07 Columbus NRC practitioners workshop, AAUDE and Colonial IR
  • Agenda -- AAUDEColonialIRAgenda.doc
  • List of participants - AAUDEColonialIRParticipantList.xls
  • Notes from the meeting -- AAUDEColonialIRConferenceNotes.doc
  • About time to degree - Chad Munz, Maryland - AAUDEColonialIR_TTD.ppt
  • About info on postdocs - Emily Thomas, Stony Brook - AAUDEColonialIRPostdocs.pdf
  
  
• Displays and uses of NRC data, dataset structures at the U of Colorado - Oct 2007



• NRC behind the scenes survey, October 2007



• AAU activities on graduate education data (Word), Updated 11/29 after AAU graduate education data task force phone conference.



• AAUDE graduate exit survey (Word)



• Comments on "Survey of Program Quality," (Word) 3/30



• Calculation of completion rates from MPR variables (Excel) - Lou McClelland, 3/9/07
  
  
• Memo to AAU graduate deans (Word) for their AGS (Association of Graduate Schools) meeting,
  Los Angeles, 9/17-20/06. Prepared 9/15/06.
• NRC West Coast IC meeting, Irvine, 9/20/2006.
  - Meeting notes by Lou McClelland (Word), U of Colorado at Boulder, attending by phone. Prepared 9/25/06.
  - Issues and decisions matrix (Word), compiled by Krisztina Marton, head of the NRC team for MPR (Mathematica Policy Research) - Received by AAUDE on 9/28/06.
• NRC Midwest IC meeting, Chicago, 9/27/06.
  - Meeting notes (Word) by Julie Carpenter-Hubin at Ohio State University with Christine Keller at the University of Kansas and Rebecca Bryant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prepared 9/28/06.
• NRC East Coast IC meeting, Washington D.C., 9/29/06.
  - Draft meeting notes (Word) by Cathy Lebo at Johns Hopkins University with Lydia Snover at MIT, Jed Marsh at Princeton, and John Scanlon at Columbia. Updated 10/06/06. Sent to NRC on/before 10/3 for review and response. Penn State clarified two questions in section 7 on 10/5.



• Systematic compilations (Word) AAUDE will be looking for 10/10/06, written 10/08/06. (Word)



• Letter to AAU chief academic officers (PDF), 10/17/06, from Ostriker and Hinshaw, chair and vice-chair of NRC Committee to Assess Research Doctorate Programs. (PDF)



• File layout specification for institutional questionnaire uploads.  As sent to Illinois 10/5/06.
  - Layout, variable names, variable labels for ASCII, Excel, SAS (one count per row) (Excel)
  - Excel template as on questionnaire (row = cohort, many measures per row)



• Final NRC program & field lists at AAU institutions
  - for AAUDE institutions (ask IR@colorado.edu for a password)



• Collecting program questionnaire data for AAUDE institutions (ask IR@colorado.edu for a password)



• Response rates (Excel) to the faculty questionnaire by field for AAUDE institutions (ask IR@colorado.edu for a password IF you provided data).

Last revision 07/22/08