POSTSEC 6273 - Research in Student Affairs

"The Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool is brought to you by the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. This analysis cutting tool was designed to provide rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to campus crime and fire data. The data are drawn from the OPE Campus Safety and Security Statistics website database to which crime statistics and fire statistics (as of the 2010 data collection) are submitted annually, via a web-based data collection, by all postsecondary institutions that receive Title IV funding (i.e., those that participate in federal student aid programs)." --- U.S. Department of Education

"The Carnegie Classification® has been the leading framework for recognizing and describing institutional diversity in U.S. higher education for the past four and a half decades. … This framework has been widely used in the study of higher education, both as a way to represent and control for institutional differences, and also in the design of research studies to ensure adequate representation of sampled institutions, students, or faculty." --- The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education

Information and statistics on number of faculty, tuition, financial aid, enrollment, admissions, retention, graduation rates, programs and majors, accreditation.

"College Results Online (CRO) is an interactive,
user-friendly Web tool designed to provide policymakers, counselors, parents, students, and others with information about college graduation rates for nearly any four-year college or university in the country." --- CRO

"CGS is the leading source of information, data analysis, and trends in graduate education.
Our benchmarking data help member institutions to assess performance in key areas, make informed decisions, and develop plans that are suited to their goals." --- Council of Graduate Schools

"The Delta Cost Project provides policymakers, higher education administrators, and the general public with analyses and resources to deepen understanding of what colleges do with their money. Our team focuses on four key questions: Where does the money come from? Where does the money go? What are tuitions paying for? What is the relationship between spending and outcomes?" --- Delta Cost Project

"The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school." --- National Center for Education Statistics

IPEDS "is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs." --- NCES

"The mission of the National Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis is to provide state policymakers and analysts timely and accurate data and information that are useful in making sound higher education policy decisions." --- National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

Open Doors provides "data tables for the past decade on U.S. students studying abroad for academic credit. Tables include information on destinations, duration of study abroad, fields of study, host regions, leading institutions, students with disabilities, and the student profile as well as non-credit experiential activities abroad."