This chapter describes the development of a state-level student tracking system that enables the state and institutions to follow various cohort types of students across institutional boundaries. The system was developed by the Policy Research and Data Warehousing section of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). SCHEV is the…

Growing enrollments of students with disabilities in postsecondary education along with recent key legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 and the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act, have generated considerable interest in research on accessibility of higher education for students with disabilities. This…

The Committee on Academic Science and Engineering (CASE), now defunct, established the CASE reporting system in 1965 to collect data on the Federal Government's obligations to universities, colleges, and other nonprofit organizations. The National Science Foundation, who has responsibility for the CASE system, uses the data for preparing annual…

This factbook is a pocket-sized looseleaf notebook containing blank statistical tables where data may be recorded concerning institutions. Eight major sections, which include tables, provide a place for information about the school's history, academic constituents, admissions and enrollment, academic programs, finances, physical resources, student…

Explains to college/university business officers how to comply with Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statements Nos. 34, 35, and 9, which require the direct method of presenting cash flows from operating activities and reconciliation of operating cash flows to operating income by fiscal year 2001. Institutions are urged to begin immediately…

Developed a monitoring system to record information on the scope and nature of the problem of sexual assault at an Australian university. Discusses the implications for Australian university campus safety, sexual assault policies and protocols, and prevention initiatives. (SLD)

Syracuse University's use of a personal computer to keep track of alumni reunion registration is described. They can take reservations over the phone, produce lists of returning alumni according to different categories, give catering current meal counts, keep track of special requests, and write personalized confirmation letters. (MLW)

Individual privacy, suggests a Swedish judge, must be protected by restricting the kinds of personal data collected and the uses to which it will be put, and by preventing erroneous information to be used. An issue is whether personal data in education files can be used in conjunction with data in other files. (Author/LBH)

Focuses on the development of a viable student data information control system within a university environment that divides student data into at least 3 categories: general information, academic information, and financial information. (Author/PG)

Good computer files can help colleges find, manage, and solicit alumni volunteers. In 1978 Rhodes College began creating detailed records on alumni and friends, entering gift and biographical data, mostly in coded form, into computerized personal files. (MLW)

A procedure called "Services/Requirements Analysis" is proposed as a means of improving input to institutional management information systems. The procedure profiles the office's information needs and limitations and identifies benefit groups, all according to user perceptions and not the assumptions of the technological community. (MSE)

Identifies 13 specific teaching strategies that counselor educators can infuse into existing course work to provide a more systematized approach to training in client documentation. (Author/KW)

A discussion of the use of computerized spreadsheets for recording and analyzing college students' grades looks at a variety of issues of concern in any evaluation situation (data collection and control, allocating grades, checking consistency, analyzing relationships between items of assessment and grades), and illustrate them with examples from…

A Hierarchical Management Information System (HMIS) provides decision-making as well as operational information to all groups of the institution in a timely and predictable manner. Its operational aspects and benefits are discussed. (Author/LBH)

The lack of statistical records in library administration is examined along with various reasons for the difficulty in measuring and recording the assorted contents and costs of a library. The need for some realistic benefit-and-cost analysis for information systems of various dimensions is noted. (LBH)