{"id":1183,"date":"2013-10-31T20:13:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:41:13","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Time flies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1184\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4054169762_140738f05d_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1184 \" alt=\"Pumpkin carved with &quot;SUN&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4054169762_140738f05d_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thinkgeekmonkeys\/\">thinkgeekmonkeys<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fall has been whizzing by, and here it is Halloween already. \u00a0 I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised, it&#8217;s been busier than ever. \u00a0 (I know. I say that every year.) \u00a0 We&#8217;ve completed two massive projects involving tracking student enrollment and outcomes over multiple cohorts and years, and another one that was small potatoes after those.\u00a0 The Associate Provost and I have spent a ton of time building on the considerable work of our Middle States Periodic Review Report (PRR) Steering Committee to create a first draft of the report. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our new IR staff members and I have worked together to get up to speed (including the Fall <a title=\"\u201cFreeze\u201d time\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freeze<\/a> and fall <a title=\"The Importance of IPEDS\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IPEDS<\/a> reporting). \u00a0 \u00a0We&#8217;ve fielded <del>four<\/del> five! surveys (so far), and are getting pretty darned good at Qualtrics. \u00a0 (Nothing like troubleshooting to help you learn something.) \u00a0I&#8217;ve gone through the CITI training for IRB and feel incredibly ethical. \u00a0 \u00a0And of course we&#8217;ve dealt with all the usual ad hoc requests and miscellany. \u00a0But with some of this big stuff behind us, and what is turning out to be a terrific IR team, it&#8217;s like the sun coming out. \u00a0For the first time in a year it seems we&#8217;re almost caught up. \u00a0We freeze employee data tomorrow, so that may not last long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fall has been whizzing by, and here it is Halloween already. \u00a0 I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised, it&#8217;s been busier than ever. \u00a0 (I know. I say that every year.) \u00a0 We&#8217;ve completed two massive projects involving tracking student enrollment and outcomes over multiple cohorts and years, and another one that was small potatoes after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=1183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time flies&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}