Overview of Campus Data Web Sites

The University of California Berkeley (UCB) campus currently uses several web-enabled databases as central sources of information in carrying out its daily operations. The five web sites described here contain data elements required in the WASC accreditation review process, and will be made accessible to the review committee. Each required element and the link to the corresponding web site are detailed in the section following this overview.

The Performance Metrics web site, on line since September 2001, provides a broad range of measures meant to indicate the degree to which organizational goals are being met. The metrics are organized into nine categories (including undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty and staff, diversity and financial operations). Each metric shows campus trends for several years, and when possible a corresponding current-year snapshot that compares UCB to a group of 12 peer institutions. The user-interactive database is continually updated to provide the most current data possible. [See detailed Instructions]

Cal Profiles was begun in November 1998. It is a comprehensive, longitudinal view of more than 400 data elements for all campus units, which can be viewed at any level from the campus down to a specific unit. The elements are organized into five sections: resource summary, workload activity, performance indicators, outreach effort and inflation-adjusted financials. Selected views of the data may be charted or downloaded to Excel. [See detailed Instructions]

Cal Profiles Plus, although a separate web site, accesses the same database as Cal Profiles, but provides more detail (e.g. semester versus academic year), and allows the user to drill down and create charts. Operational since November 2001, current applications include assigned majors, course enrollments, degrees awarded and student credit hours.

The Common Data Set is a collaborative effort between publishers and educational institutions to standardize the set of annual data elements requested for educational publications. The UCB web site (begun in August 2000) organizes the data into sections A through K following the CDS format: enrollment, graduation and persistence, admissions, academic offerings and policies, student life, expenses and financial aid. Currently we have three years of data available through our web site, the most current being 2001-2002. [See detailed Instructions]

The fifth on-line site is maintained by the UCB Office of Student Research. The interactive database allows the user to select among applicants, registered students by class level or undergraduate degrees. The selected group may then be summarized by academic term on age, ethnicity, gender, test scores, graduation and persistence rates, and home location.

In addition, there are several links to web pages maintained by the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP). Finally, in those instances where requested data is not maintained centrally on one of the above web sites, we have linked to information housed on the accreditation web site.

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