Carol Livingstone, director of the Division of Management Information, recently
announced that the newly expanded "Campus Profile" is now available
on the web at: http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/cp/.
The Campus Profile contains 10 years of data for the campus and for all
UIUC departments and colleges. Data accessible through the Campus Profile
includes figures regarding staffing levels (full-time equivalent/head count),
budgets, expenses, student enrollment, student/faculty ratio, ACT scores,
high school ranking, degrees granted, time to degree, instructional units
(IUs), sections offered and section size, faculty teaching loads and more.
Access to the new site currently is limited to users connected to a computer
located on campus.
The Campus Profile, originally developed by the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences and adapted for the entire campus by the Division of Management,
was redesigned last year by the Task Force on Program Evaluation and Assessment.
"The expanded 'Campus Profile' puts information in the hands of deans,
directors and department heads that can be used to identify targets for
program improvement and to judge the effects of improvement efforts over
time," said Lizanne DeStefano, professor of educational psychology
and chair of the task force subcommittee that identified the qualitative
and quantitative indicators in the new system.
"The 'Campus Profile' has been used for years by administrators to
look at trends in a unit over time and to facilitate comparisons between
units by providing a common set of quantitative indicators," Livingstone
said. "We hope that the many new items added to this year's profile
will enhance its utility and will stimulate more in-depth discussions of
productivity and quality."
"In particular, the hypertext format allows us to link each department's
'Campus Profile' page to a page provided by the department itself. The task
force hopes that units will use this feature to create their own 'profiles'
of the quality measures that are important to them."
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