2009 Performance Accountability Report Vol. 2 - Maryland Higher ...

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Objective
Salisbury University
September 2009
SU USM
Indicator
Type
Special Timeframe
Issues Indicator/Measure Source Operational Definition Control Procedures
4.6 Output FY 06: 1999 cohort Six year graduation rate: EIS, DIS The percentage of minority first- Please refer to SU objective 4.1 for control
FY 07: 2000 cohort minority students time, full-time degree-seeking procedures.
FY 08: 2001 cohort MHEC-provided undergraduates who graduated from
FY 09: 2002 cohort any Maryland public four-year
institution within six years of
matriculation. Minority includes
African-American, Hispanic, Asian
American, and Native American.
Additional Indicators
AI.1 2.2 Outcome FY 06: 04-05 grads Median salary of SU salary data: Self-explanatory. Salisbury Please refer to SU objective 1.3 for Alumni Survey
FY 07: 05-06 grads Salisbury University MHEC follow-up University data are collected by control procedures.
FY 08: 06-07 grads graduates one-year after survey of recent the alumni survey question on
FY 09: 07-08 grads graduation. graduates annual salary and calculated using
“median of grouped data”
computation for graduates
employed full-time.
Med = [{(Sample Size/2) –
cumulative frequency of preceding
class}/number of observations in
class containing median]*(width
of the interval containing the
median) +Lower boundary of class
containing median
AI.2 2.2 Outcome FY 06: 04-05 grads Ratio of median salary of SU salary data: Self-explanatory. Methodology: Please refer to SU objective 1.3 for Alumni Survey
FY 07: 05-06 grads Salisbury University MHEC follow-up survey year matches CPS sample control procedures. Data on the median income of
FY 08: 06-07 grads graduates one-year after survey of recent year. Salisbury University data US graduates are found in the U.S. Bureau of the
FY 09: 07-08 grads graduation to the median
earnings of the U.S.
civilian work force with
bachelor's degree
graduates
US salary data: US
Census Bureau/Bureau
of Labor Statistics
Current Population
Survey (CPS)
463
are collected by the alumni survey
question on annual salary and
calculated using “median of
grouped data” computation,
divided by the median salary of
Census and the U.S. Department of Labor’s March
Supplement of the Annual Demographic Survey
(see the following website:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/03200
9/perinc/new03_001.htm)