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

June 27, 2008 – UMUC – Common + Institution specific indicators
OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS FOR MFR/ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES/INDICATORS
Measure # Special Timeframe Issues USM
Template
Objective
Indicator/Measure Source Operational Definition Control
reviewed for corrupt or changed or missing data.
6 Fiscal year basis (Summer, Fall,
Spring)
1.3 Number of worldwide enrollments
in distance education courses and
off-campus courses
Internal report
(off campus
enrollment form
is no longer
requested by
MHEC)
The number of worldwide
enrollments in courses offered off
campus and through the Internet,
IVN, etc, for the Fiscal Year. Note:
this is not an unduplicated count, but
the addition of enrollments in all
distance education courses.
7 See #1 3.1 % minority of all undergraduates EIS Minority: African-American,
Hispanic, Asian American, Native
American
8 See #1 3.2 % African-American of all
undergraduates
9 Fall Cohort 3.3 % of economically disadvantaged
students
Undergraduate students whose major, or concentration, is defined as
part of the MAITI set are selected, their credit loads summed, and
FTES (Full Time Equivalent Students) calculated on the basis of
student level and credit hours for the FY using a SAS program. These
annualized FTES are summed to produce the actual data reported in
the MFR under “Number of undergraduates enrolled in IT programs.”
Final review and signoff is by the Assistant VP.
For Stateside: All class sections are identified in the source system of
record as to location and delivery method, and these fields are used in
the DW to select the student enrollments for this measure. Enrollments
are selected if the campus location code is not ADEL or UMCP (i.e.,
they are held at sites other than the Adelphi headquarters or in UM
classrooms at College Park), or if they are delivered via online. A SAS
program reads the DW data and provides aggregate counts. The
specific programs used to generate the data for the current MFR
submission are saved as a permanent record of the process.
For Overseas: The Fiscal Year End report is updated annually from
Europe and Asia’s IR office. Classes are selected if they are classified
as being delivered via distance education, and the total distance
education enrollments for Europe and Asia are counted for overseas.
Stateside is then added to the Overseas data to get total worldwide
enrollments for this measure
See Controls #1 above for data source explanation.
The race and citizenship fields from the source system of record are
combined to create the EIS-defined ethnicity field. The SAS program
that creates a set of profile tables from the EIS (as described above in
#1) provides a breakout of this field which is used in the calculation of
this measure.
EIS Self-explanatory. See Controls #1 above for data source explanation, also Controls #7
above.
Common Data Number of degree-seeking
The Common Data Set is a summary report generated for the purpose
Set
undergraduate students, both full- of reporting UMUC institutional counts to various external surveyors
and part-time, who applied for and guidebook requests. The data source is the DW freeze data
financial aid and who were
(semester or FY, depending on the specific item). (See Controls #1
determined to have financial need
(from line H2c of the Common Data
above for the general data source explanation.)
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