The culmination of the first phase of a project integrating library usage data provided by the University Libraries with University records was presented last week at the Library Technology Conference hosted by Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. This project combined the Fall 2011 library usage data with demographics and aggregated student success metrics, included term GPA and retention data to quantify the impact of the University Libraries. Krista Soria and David Peterson from OIR provided initial analysis and Andrea Galliger provided institutional data.
More about the presentation can be found on the Macalester Digital Commons site.
March 19, 2012
March 12, 2012
Site Usage: Dec 2011 - Feb 2012
This update covers December 1st, 2011 to February 29th, 2012 - 90 days. This quarter covers the end of the Fall semester and the start of the Spring semester.
Visitors
We had 11,032 visits from 7,993 unique visitors during this quarter. This total was a 70% increase over the same time period last year. Of these visitors, 43,388 pages were viewed, an average of 3.93 per visit. Mobile devices accounted for 5% of the traffic. Mobile usage is up nearly 400% compared to last year's winter period.
Who visited the site?
Minnesota visitors accounted for about 60% of the total site traffic. 93% of the visits originated in the United States. Only 3.9% of the visited were non-native English speakers. The top 5 visitor states (excluding MN) were Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Texas and New York, which was identical to last quarter. 30% of the visitors were browsing from the University of Minnesota network.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 28% direct / 56% site referral / 16% search engines. Like last quarter, a large number of referrals arrive from the Campus Facts page on the umn.edu home page. The new homepage for the Office of Planning and Analysis contributed a large number of in-depth (consumed lots of content) visits. 11 Wikipedia articles referenced our enrollment reports, included the Turkish and Finnish language University of Minnesota articles.
Keywords
Over 500 different combinations of search keywords resulted in a visit. The majority of the visits come from a search for "oir", "institutional research", etc, and they generally are recurring visits. The largest gaining keywords were related to "seru", "nsse" and "student debt".
Visitors
We had 11,032 visits from 7,993 unique visitors during this quarter. This total was a 70% increase over the same time period last year. Of these visitors, 43,388 pages were viewed, an average of 3.93 per visit. Mobile devices accounted for 5% of the traffic. Mobile usage is up nearly 400% compared to last year's winter period.
Who visited the site?
Minnesota visitors accounted for about 60% of the total site traffic. 93% of the visits originated in the United States. Only 3.9% of the visited were non-native English speakers. The top 5 visitor states (excluding MN) were Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Texas and New York, which was identical to last quarter. 30% of the visitors were browsing from the University of Minnesota network.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 28% direct / 56% site referral / 16% search engines. Like last quarter, a large number of referrals arrive from the Campus Facts page on the umn.edu home page. The new homepage for the Office of Planning and Analysis contributed a large number of in-depth (consumed lots of content) visits. 11 Wikipedia articles referenced our enrollment reports, included the Turkish and Finnish language University of Minnesota articles.
Keywords
Over 500 different combinations of search keywords resulted in a visit. The majority of the visits come from a search for "oir", "institutional research", etc, and they generally are recurring visits. The largest gaining keywords were related to "seru", "nsse" and "student debt".
March 2, 2012
New SERU site released
We are pleased to announce the release of seru.umn.edu. The site content is centered around the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) project, which is part of our overall U Matter student assessment strategy. This site is designed for students who are responding to the SERU survey, as well as staff, faculty and the entire University community, who will be promoting the survey and eventually using the survey results to inform decisions.
The site was developed by the Office of Institutional Research. The U Matter graphics were designed by the U Relations team, who also helped in designing the overarching brand for all of the survey communications.
Check the site for announcements about the survey. We will be publishing the 2012 response rates by College frequently after the survey has launched on March 20th, 2012.
The site was developed by the Office of Institutional Research. The U Matter graphics were designed by the U Relations team, who also helped in designing the overarching brand for all of the survey communications.
Check the site for announcements about the survey. We will be publishing the 2012 response rates by College frequently after the survey has launched on March 20th, 2012.
February 17, 2012
Updated: Fall 2011 Student Performance, Meta data
The Fall 2011 Undergraduate Student Performance reports, which contains Term/Cumulative GPA, Credits Completed and Credits Completed Percentage for all campuses, are now available to current students, faculty and staff. Previously, the data was open to a much more limited audience.
Two new pages have been created to help clarify questions about some of the meta information behind the reports on the OIR site. First, the Data Load Schedule. Table contains the approximate schedule for the loading of all of the web based reports and the staff responsible for the data integrity. Second, the My Access page. You must have an UMN internet id (or guest account) to see this report. It shows which secure reports your account is able to access and how to request access.
Two new pages have been created to help clarify questions about some of the meta information behind the reports on the OIR site. First, the Data Load Schedule. Table contains the approximate schedule for the loading of all of the web based reports and the staff responsible for the data integrity. Second, the My Access page. You must have an UMN internet id (or guest account) to see this report. It shows which secure reports your account is able to access and how to request access.
February 8, 2012
Official Enrollment Statistics: Spring 2012 Released
The Spring 2012 Official Enrollment Statistics data has been loaded. The University of Minnesota system-wide total enrollment for all academic levels is 63,933. For each University of Minnesota Campus: Twin Cities - 48,846, Duluth - 10,938, Crookston - 2,103, Morris - 1,780, Rochester - 266. Visit the Official Enrollment Statistics page for more details.
February 6, 2012
Released: 2011-2012 Common Data Set
The 2011-2012 Common Data Set file is now available for download. Staff member Andrea Galliger has provided a short description of the file:
For more details, visit the Common Data Set Initiative web site:
http://www.commondataset.org/
The Common Data Set (CDS) is a set of information whose content and definitons are agreed upon by data providers in the higher education community as well as publishers represented by the College Board, Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report. These efforts are aimed at reducing the reporting burden on data providers while improving the accuracy of the information provided. An updated Common Data Set is produced once each academic year.
For more details, visit the Common Data Set Initiative web site:
http://www.commondataset.org/
February 3, 2012
New 2011 Graduation Retention Report
We have now released the inaugural web based version of the Official University of Minnesota Graduation/Retention Report for first-time full-time new entering freshmen, using newly designed data warehouse tables. The report layout is essentially the same as in prior years, but a few minor content changes have been implemented that make some of the numbers slightly different than in the past. These differences are listed below.
A small number of students appear in more than one terms Official Enrollment Report table as a new freshman (NHS) or a new transfer (NAS). In previous reports, these students were included in multiple entry cohorts. Now, they are only represented once, based on the earliest entry term. This change will slightly reduce the size of some of the entering cohorts.
Graduates who are awarded multiple bachelors degrees from different campuses or colleges in the same term are now assigned a graduation status (e.g. Degree Entry Unit, Degree Other Unit, Degree Other Campus) with priority given to their entry campus or college. In the past the status was based on the first degree posted for that term. This change tends to slightly increase the number of Degree Entry Unit counts and decrease the number of Degree Other Unit counts.
Deceased students are now only included in the report if they were awarded a degree. If a degree was not awarded, they are excluded from the base cohorts. In the past, all new entering students were included regardless of deceased status. This is now in synch with Federal regulations.
These three basic changes result in some of the base cohort numbers and status numbers being different than in previous years reports. However these differences are relatively small and generally involve only a few students (less than 10 per cohort)
Please contact the Office of Institutional research if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
A small number of students appear in more than one terms Official Enrollment Report table as a new freshman (NHS) or a new transfer (NAS). In previous reports, these students were included in multiple entry cohorts. Now, they are only represented once, based on the earliest entry term. This change will slightly reduce the size of some of the entering cohorts.
Graduates who are awarded multiple bachelors degrees from different campuses or colleges in the same term are now assigned a graduation status (e.g. Degree Entry Unit, Degree Other Unit, Degree Other Campus) with priority given to their entry campus or college. In the past the status was based on the first degree posted for that term. This change tends to slightly increase the number of Degree Entry Unit counts and decrease the number of Degree Other Unit counts.
Deceased students are now only included in the report if they were awarded a degree. If a degree was not awarded, they are excluded from the base cohorts. In the past, all new entering students were included regardless of deceased status. This is now in synch with Federal regulations.
These three basic changes result in some of the base cohort numbers and status numbers being different than in previous years reports. However these differences are relatively small and generally involve only a few students (less than 10 per cohort)
Please contact the Office of Institutional research if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
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