1. History and Role of the FAEIS Peer Panel 2010 FAEIS Peer Panel Meeting Dallas, TX

2. Add your company slogan LOGO FAEIS Origins  Was started in 1983 and managed by Texas A&M.  1983 was only two years after the invention of the Internet.  Ronald Reagan was President.  Record of the years was “Rosanna” by Toto.  Best Picture was “E.T, the Extra-Terrestrial”  Original Purpose: Current enrollment and placement data.

3. Add your company slogan LOGO Texas A&M: 1983-1999  Texas A&M did not have such a thing as a database. This is quite understandable, given the times!  FAEIS data were in individual files. A file consisted of a single program within a department, within a single college, and within a single university. Hundreds of files per year, accumulating each year. Eventually, a gigantic mound of files that had to be individually examined to create any enrollment table.  Y2K became an insurmountable issue for Texas A&M. Their program for creating the files was not Y2K complaint.  Texas A&M officially ceased their support of FAEIS in late 1999.

4. Add your company slogan LOGO FAEIS @ VT  Virginia Tech awarded FAEIS contract in 2002  RFA: 8 pages of requirements  Developed by the FAEIS Peer Panel  Areas: Performing Data Collection (25 requirements) Conducting Queries and Requesting Reports (11 requirements) Accessing Web Links and Web Site Information (16 requirements) Maintaining Database Information (17 requirements) Controlling User Access (5 requirements) Supporting Users (7 requirements) Providing Security (3 requirements)  Major goal was to develop a web-based system.

5. Add your company slogan LOGO FAEIS Data- An Historical View

6. Add your company slogan LOGO What is FAEIS?  FAEIS compiles nationwide higher education data for the life, food, veterinary, human, natural resource, and agricultural sciences.  These data include:  Student enrollment, degrees awarded and placement at all degree levels and by gender and race.  Faculty counts and salaries by race/ethnicity, gender, rank and discipline.

7. Add your company slogan LOGO FAEIS Can Help Our Clientele…  Learn about enrollment trends, emerging disciplines, student placement, and faculty salaries.  Study these data by discipline, institution or even institution type (1862, 1890, 1994, Non-Land-Grant Colleges).  Create custom reports for use in planning and proposals.  Use the FAEIS database to conduct comparisons with peer institutions.  Discover the new and emerging disciplines in colleges similar to yours.  Understand how colleges and universities nationwide are organized, and how ‘agriculture’ is being redefined to include a broad array of disciplines.

8. Add your company slogan LOGO FAEIS Versus IPEDS  IPEDS has graduation data but no current enrollment data.  FAEIS has both current enrollment and graduation data.  Our clients want current data- “what is going on now”

9. Add your company slogan LOGO Sponsoring Organizations  Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU)  American Association of State Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources (AASCARR)  Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)  Board on Human Sciences (BOHS)  Council of Administrators of Family and Consumer Sciences (CAFCS)  National Association of University Forest Resources Programs (NAUFRC)  Society of American Foresters (SAF)

10. Add your company slogan LOGO Peer Panel Activities  Mission Statement Adopted  Peer Panel Charter Approved  Memorandums of Understanding Established

11. Add your company slogan LOGO FAEIS MOUs

12. Add your company slogan LOGO Purpose of the Peer Panel  “Represent the respective clientele groups in providing policy advice and counsel to FAEIS in its future role and scope.”  “Provide technical guidance to FAEIS from participating institutions and other users on data collection, classification, formatting and access issues.”  “Serve as an advocate of FAEIS through communication with present and potential user groups across both the public and private sector.”

13. Add your company slogan LOGO What You Do as Peer Panel Members www.themegallery.com Company Logo Policy Advice: Help us set priorities 1 Technical Guidance: Data integrity and access 2 Advocating: Ask your members about FAEIS 3 Communicating: Converse with NIFA and FAEIS 4

14. Please advise us and guide us

15. Add your company slogan LOGO FAEIS & REEIS  VT FAEIS and REEIS staff discussed the Texas A&M data  REEIS paid for the printed FAEIS data from Texas A&M to be moved into REEIS  REEIS personnel deciphered the “9999” CIP codes  Data from 1993-2000 can be found at http:/www.reeis.usda.gov and click on “Reports” Again, important to remember that the original purpose was current data. There was no database.