1. Cooperative Institutional Research Project (CIRP)
Incoming first-time full-time freshmen
NU has participated since 1966
The survey covers a wide range of student characteristics
70% response rate in 2008
Talked about before. Here’s a quick summary:
Trend data back to 1971
40 questions dealing with parental income and education, ethnicity, and other demographic items; financial aid; secondary school achievement and activities; educational and career plans; and values, attitudes, beliefs, and self-concept.
Response rate had been in the upper 70’s over the three previous years, but came down this year possibly due to flawed survey software and survey instrument.
Still, the consistently high response rate makes it reliable surveys at NU

2. SSPG website Results from last 3 years are posted. By school
Adding a ten year trend file
Have older data and a forty year trend file

3. CIRP Racial Composition
Whites over-responded. 59% of responses vs. 55% of class
Internationals and Asians under-responded by a couple of percentage points.
CIRP respondents still a pretty good reflections of the incoming class overall.

4. Reasons indicated as “very important” for coming to NU
This college has a good academic reputation (94% for URM, 92% for others)
This college’s graduates get good jobs (82%, 72%)
This college’s graduates gain admission to top grad/prof schools (62%, 58%)
21 reasons for attending “this college”
Percentage of students indicating a reason was “very important” in their decision to come to NU.
International and unknown students are excluded.
Same top 3 reasons, but with slightly different proportions.

5. Very important reasons underrepresented minorities decided to come to NU
Difference between URM and other students was significant for 7 of 21 reasons:
This college’s graduates get good jobs (82% for URM vs. 72% for all others)
Rankings in national magazines (49%, 39%)
The cost of attending this college (28%, 20%)
High school counselor advised me (12%, 7%)
Not offered aid by first choice (11%, 6%)
Could not afford first choice (8%, 4%)
Attracted by religious affiliation/orientation of this college (5%, 1%)
Chi-square test of reasons URMs noted as “very important” in their decision to come to NU compared to reasons other students were “very important” in coming to NU.
International and unknown are excluded
3 of 7 are related to cost

6. Very important reasons underrepresented minorities decided to come to NU
Cost is clearly very important
May lack variety of informational resources
Already looking ahead to post-college career
Odds URM find these reasons as "very important" in their decision to attend NU
Could Not Afford First Choice
1.993
Not Offered Aid By First Choice
1.913
High School Counselor Advised Me
1.714
This College's Graduates Get Good Jobs
1.696
The Cost Of Attending This College
1.522
Rankings in National Magazines
1.516
Odds ratio is likelihood URMs are to select one of these reasons as “very important” compared to a non-URM student

7. Parent’s income Take a look and parent’s income by racial category.
Ethnic_compare
Total
White or Asian
URM
Income_compare
$60,000 or greater
Count
902
119
1021
Expected Count
889.0
132.0
1021.0
% within Ethnic_compare
88.7%
78.8%
87.4%
Less than $60,000
115 32
147
128.0
19.0
147.0
11.3%
21.2%
12.6%
Risk Estimate
Value
95% Confidence Interval
Lower
Upper
Odds Ratio for Income_compare (1.00 / 2.00)
2.109
1.364
3.261
Take a look and parent’s income by racial category.
Total parental income of $60,000 is the dividing line.
21% of URM students with parents making less than $60k vs. 11% of other students
Odds ratio