1. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/091 AAUDE Graduate Education Working Group Julie Carpenter-Hubin, Ohio State Lou McClelland, Colorado at Boulder AAUDE, College Station, February 2009 Resources at http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/nrc_national.htm http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/nrc_national.htm

2. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/092 Graduate Student Exit Survey Primary and secondary core sets of questions finalized – both posted Kendrick Tatum to serve as caretaker; caretaker buddy needed Core sets of questions to go to Council for approval as official exchange item Core sets available for inclusion in institutional surveys immediately, with exchange to begin ASAP

3. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/093 Graduate Student Exit Survey -- 2 Do have AGS/grad school buy-in for this NEED materials for AAUDE reps to use in their schools – it’s IDC rec, AAU presidents approved, AGS in on development, approved, now, do it Grad deans recognize that must use centralized collection, generally by IR, with exchange through AAUDE, to get comparative data

4. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/094 PhD Time to Degree and Completion Rates Time to Degree caretaker Chad Muntz, with Emily Thomas as caretaker buddy Completion Rates caretaker Jason Sullivan, with Sandra Hannon as caretaker buddy 5+ institutions volunteered to pilot each by mid-July Will post templates Following pilot, analysis to determine additional information necessary to understand data Full exchange 2009-10

5. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/095 Graduate Student Financial Support Existing graduate student stipend exchange, including stipend by CIP, with Chris Maxwell as caretaker to continue as designed Improve the GSS data and model; add XI John Scanlon working on this Small working group to explore expanded AAUDE version of the NSF GSS survey, coordinated by Robert Stubbs Evaluate potential for collecting dollars as well as fractional N’s in this format

6. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/096 IPEDS enrollment detail by level and discipline Current exchange item to be simplified and aligned with IPEDS enrollment while gathering detail by CIP Subgroup Kelly Wahl, Jaime Galindo, Lou McClelland, John Scanlon and Rebecca Carr to finalize

7. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/097 PhD Outcomes John Vaughn has invited a subgroup comprising Rich Howard, Lisa Metzger-Mugg, Sunny Power, and Karen Klomparens to address this item Ohio State working on utility of info from SED for determining outcomes immediately after graduation

8. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/098 SED Local Administration pilot Proceeding this year, with data to be sent to NSF as print versions of individual surveys Lydia Snover, Rich Howard, and Jeff Dutton piloting, will update as pilot proceeds Schools interested in moving to local web administration of the SED, with transmission to NORC by paper/PDF, should contact one of the three pilot schools about sharing collection mechanisms

9. AAUDE Grad Ed Data Working Group, 2/099 NRC Rumored that methodology may appear in March, with ratings available in April Everything we know is posted at http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/nrc_national.htm http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/nrc_national.htm Schedule, timing, calendar, releases, collection Comparison of the 1993 study (released 1995) and the 2006 study (release 2009) NRC institutions, programs, and fields - Preliminary characterizations Preliminary characterizations