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There are two items this week:
  1. TRP Suggestions Available for Comment
  2. IPEDS at the AIR Forum

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. Suggestions are from Technical Review Panel #58, “Exploring Best Practices in Data Visualization" that was held March 26 and 27, 2019, in Washington DC. Comments from interested parties should be sent to Janice Kelly-Reid, IPEDS Project Director at RTI International, at ipedsTRPcomment@rti.org, and are due by June 10, 2019.

2) IPEDS at the AIR Forum

Please join your AIR colleagues at the following IPEDS Sessions being presented by NCES staff at the AIR Forum (https://www.airweb.org/forum/2019). We also hope that you will stop by the IPEDS booth in the exhibit hall, where RTI and NCES staff will be present throughout the conference.

Exhibit Hall hours
Tuesday 05/28/19, 4:45pm-6:45pm
Wednesday 05/29/19, 10:00am-5:30pm
Thursday 05/30/19, 8:00am-2:00pm

IPEDS Update
IPEDS Update
05/28/2019 (1:00 PM - 2:30 PM)
Tara Lawley, National Center for Education Statistics
This session provides a general update on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). A review of the 2018-19 collection year, information about changes for the 2019-20 collection, and an overview of Research and Development are provided.

IPEDS Update
IPEDS Update: Condensed Encore Session
05/29/2019 (10:15 AM - 11:00 AM)
Tara Lawley, National Center for Education Statistics
This is an encore session, which is a shorter session from the impact session presented earlier this week. However, this presentation provides an opportunity for those who missed the impact session to receive the general update on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) annual survey collected by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education. The following information will be presented: a brief review of the 2018-19 data collection year and proposed changes to future collections.

IPEDS Data Tools Update
05/30/2019 (3:15 PM - 4:00 PM)
Tara Lawley, National Center for Education Statistics

Additionally, several workshops and sessions about reporting to IPEDS, and/or using IPEDS data, are being presented, including the following:

Pre-Conference Workshops
IPEDS Data and Benchmarking: Supporting Decision Making and Institutional Effectiveness
05/27/2019 (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
Erez Lenchner, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

IPEDS Human Resources Training
05/27/2019 (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
Nancy Floyd, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

IPEDS Student Financial Aid Training
05/27/2019 (12:30 PM - 4:00 PM)
John Ingram, Community College of Allegheny County

Using Tableau to Automate IR Data Reporting
05/27/2019 (12:30 PM - 4:00 PM)
Sarah Gallimore, York College of PA

IPEDS New Keyholder Workshop
05/28/2019 (8:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
Nancy Floyd, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Carrie Mata, Oglethorpe University

IPEDS Finance Training for IR Professionals
05/28/2019 (12:30 PM - 4:00 PM)
Eric Atchison, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning

Speaker Sessions related to IPEDS
Using Python to Automate Reporting and Data Preparation
05/29/2019 (1:45 PM - 2:30 PM)
Christopher Pena, University of Denver

The Higher Education Hunger Games: Winning with External Data
05/30/2019 (8:00 AM - 8:45 AM)
Bridgett Milner, Indiana University
Douglas Anderson, Indiana University

Did I Find Everything? Using Tableau to Simplify Data Validation
05/30/2019 (8:00 AM - 8:45 AM)
Janice Childress, Ball State University

Employment OR Graduation/Transfer: Comprehensive Community College Outcomes
05/30/2019 (8:00 AM - 8:45 AM)
Nick Branson, College of Lake County

Undergraduate Graduation Percentage as an Indicator of Student Success
05/30/2019 (9:45 AM - 10:30 AM)
Fiorella Penaloza, Cleveland University-Kansas City

Automating Custom Peer Reports Using IPEDS Data with SQL, R and LaTeX
05/30/2019 (2:15 PM - 3:00 PM)
Shiloh Bradley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2018 NCES Data Institute Research Reports
05/30/2019 (3:15 PM - 4:00 PM)
Sheila DeRouen, Louisiana Community & Technical College System
Sophia Laderman, SHEEO
Jennifer May-Trifiletti, University of Georgia
Melinda Whitford, University at Buffalo

Benchmarking Student Outcome Metrics Using Two National Data Systems
05/30/2019 (4:15 PM - 5:00 PM)
Denise Nadasen, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Vaughn Alexander Hendriex, American Association of Community Colleges

Almost Too Easy: A New Way to Wrangle IPEDS Data
05/31/2019 (8:00 AM - 8:45 AM)
Emma Morgan, Tufts University
Kathryn Aloisio, Smith College

Panel Session
2015–16 IPEDS: Data Inconsistencies Between the OM & GR Survey Components
05/29/2019 (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
Aida Ali Akreyi, American Institutes for Research
Christopher Cody, American Institutes for Research
Tara Lawley, National Center for Education Statistics

Poster Presentation
Key Points of Completing IPEDS Outcome Measures in 2019
05/29/2019 (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)
Faxian Yang, Sabrina Andrews, University of South Carolina

Post-Conference Workshop
Best Practices for Reporting and Using IPEDS Data to Improve Office Efficiencies
05/31/2019 (8:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
Eric Atchison, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
Braden Hosch, Stony Brook University

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