MEMORANDUM

 

To:      Institutional Effectiveness Contacts

 

From:  Michael Smith

           

Date: April 26, 2000

 

 

Institutional Effectiveness Reporting 2000

 

Enclosed you will find the reporting requirements for the 2000 Institutional Effectiveness submissions that will be due in our office no later than August 1, 2000.  The first file that is included contains brief explanations for the components required within the summary reports and the second file contains the data tables that should be completed by your office.  Together with the data that has been collected for performance funding purposes (Section 59-103-30), this information will satisfy reporting requirements for Section 59-101-350.

 

As we did for the January 2000 Report, “A Closer Look at Public Higher Education in South Carolina,” we will use performance funding information with the institutional effectiveness reports to highlight changes within the state’s public higher education institutions.  As of now, we anticipate that the format of the report in January 2001 will be very similar to the January 2000 report.  This means that the summary reports from each institution should again be posted to your website so that we may refer to your electronic address in the January 2001 report.  Also, please maintain your 1999 Summary Report on your website so that at least two years of summary data can be viewed.

 

We are in the process of setting up a convenient time for readers to review your 1999 summary reports and we apologize for the delay in this process.  We hope to complete this review quickly and return general comments to you at least one month before your 2000 report is due.  

 

To assist the two-year campuses in their assessment efforts in the area of transfer (Achievement of Students Transferring from Two to Four Year Institutions), data on these students has been requested from each four-year institution and will be submitted to Bob Mellon (technical institutions) and David Hunter (USC Regional campuses) by June 1, 2000.  This should allow the two-year institutions appropriate time to include this information in their full report due August 1, 2000.

 

Please be sure to attach the following transmittal form when you submit your information on August 1, 2000.  In trying to make the submission process easier, we are asking that you submit your completed summary report and data tables electronically to:  Renee Connolly, at rconnoll@che400.state.sc.us.  If you have trouble transmitting this information electronically, please mail a hard copy of all the report components to the Commission.  If we are not able to pull up your report & data tables, we may ask you for a hard copy.  All the information has been written in Word and should transmit fairly easily, so we ask that you use Word when sending your summary reports.  If you have to use another software application, please mail a hard copy of your summary report.  Also, please check the Commission’s website at www.che.sc.gov/academicaffairs/IE/IEPage.htm to confirm that the Commission has recorded the correct components that you will be reporting on in your summary report.  If there is a discrepancy, please contact Renee Connolly at 803-737-2285, otherwise we will expect that those sections listed (including Majors or Concentrations) will be the only components reported on during 2000.  As noted in the first file, “IE Requirements” the Commission will be reviewing the reporting schedule from 2001 forward to determine a consistent reporting pattern for the institutions and each of the components required. 

 

Thank you for your continued support in the state’s planning process and your consistent efforts in putting together excellent reports that detail your institutions’ efforts in planning and assessment, accountability, and performance.  We have posted a copy of the 2000 institutional effectiveness guidelines and tables to the website at www.che.sc.gov/academicaffairs/IE/IEPage.htm and will continue to post updates and revisions there, as needed.


2000 Institutional Effectiveness Checklist

This form should be completed and returned with your data tables and summary report by August 1, 2000

 

 

The information included here is current and correct to the best of my knowledge.

 

Name of person           

submitting information:  

 

Title:                            

 

Institution:                    

 

Phone:                                     

 

Fax:                             

 

Email:                          

 

 

Institutional web address of

Summary Report:         

                                     

 Summary reports will be expected on institutional websites by August 1, 2000

 

 

 

Check list of IE Reports due August 1, 2000

 

___      Summary Report                                              

                                                ___      Accreditation Table                                          

                                                ___      Students in Developmental Education Table                   

                                                ___      Sponsored Research Table                                

                                                ___      Professional Examinations Table           

Please remember that Transfer information is due June 1, 2000 to Bob Mellon and David Hunter so that two-year institutions

can include it in their full report by August 1.

 

 

Date Submitted:         

 

Submit electronically to:

Renee Connolly – rconnoll@che400.state.sc.us

 

Should you have trouble with electronic submission, you can mail a hard copy to:

Renee Connolly

SC Commission on Higher Education

1333 Main St., Suite 200

Columbia, SC  29201

Phone: 803-737-2285     Fax:  803-737-2297

 

 

Updates and/or revisions to any IE information will be posted on the website at

 www.che.sc.gov/academicaffairs/IE/IEPage.htm