This Week In IPEDS (TWII)

Feasibility Study for Student Unit Record Data Collection

**** IMPORTANT REMINDER: The IPEDS Fall data collection closes to keyholders tomorrow, October 20, at midnight (pacific time). ****

HigherEd.org, a contractor to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is conducting of a feasibility study about the possibility of redesigning the IPEDS collection of student-related data to incorporate individual, student unit records. If implemented, the IPEDS unit record collection system would completely replace the submission of institution-level data for the enrollment, completions, graduation rates, and student financial aid components; and it would replace parts of the institutional characteristics component related to price of attendance. NCES would use the unit record data to generate the existing IPEDS institutional data that make up the Peer Analysis System and the IPEDS College Opportunities OnLine Web site (IPEDS COOL).

As part of the feasibility study, HigherEd.org is holding a series of Technical Review Panel (TRP) meetings that are intended to get feedback and suggestions for the study. For more information about the TRP meetings, including opportunities to participate, please see: http://highered.org/ipeds/

Please check these websites for additional information:
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/trpurs.asp
http://highered.org/ipeds/
http://www.airweb.org/page.asp?page=670