This Week In IPEDS (TWII)

TRP Suggestions Available for Comment

Suggestions from the most recent meeting of the IPEDS Technical Review Panel are posted at https://edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP/Default.aspx and are currently open for comment through Wednesday, October 12, 2016. Suggestions are from Technical Review Panel #50, “Outcome Measures 2017-18: New Data Collection Considerations” that was held August 23 and 24, 2016, in Washington DC. As a reminder, suggestions from Technical Review Panel #49, “The Public Face of IPEDS: Web Tools and Publications” are posted at the same link (https://edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP/Default.aspx) and are open for comment through Monday, September 19, 2016.

Comments from interested parties should clearly identify which Technical Review Panel (#49 or #50) is receiving comments and sent to Janice Kelly-Reid, IPEDS Project Director at RTI International, at ipedsTRPcomment@rti.org.

College Map

NCES is pleased to release a new postsecondary search tool, College Map (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/CollegeMap/, which will help future undergraduate and graduate students visually and quickly locate their future college or university. College Map supplements College Navigator (http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/) by mapping institutions with a physical location. Exclusively online institutions are not mapped, but appear in the results pane if users select to include online institutions in their search results

College Map is currently in a Beta version and has room for improvement before its final release. So give it a test run on your desktop or mobile devices, and send us your constructive feedback to ipeds@ed.gov.

We hope this new tool demonstrates the importance of your data reported to NCES by presenting it in a meaningful way for prospective students.

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