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Population

  

Data are as of census and are an unduplicated headcount.

Includes:

  • SCU and comparison institution data directly from IPEDS

Excludes:

  • Schools that did not report data or reported 0                                                                                                       

Function

  The Diversity Dashboard: SCU vs. Benchmark Institutions highlights race/ethnicity and gender composition and representation data. The Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Institutional Research continue to refine the dashboard to provide more detailed demographics, more trend analysis, additional success indicators, and additional campus climate indicators. 

Special Notes

 
  • Undergraduate Students - Twenty comparison schools were chosen for undergraduate metrics. The comparison schools are institutions with which Santa Clara competed for undergraduate students in 2011 (i.e., the schools with the largest number of "cross-admits").
  • Graduate Students - For consistency and comparisons, the undergraduate comparison institutions were also used as benchmarks for graduate students, with some exceptions: schools without graduate programs were excluded.
  • On October 19, 2007, the U.S. Department of Education posted to the Federal Register the "Final Guidance on Maintaining, Collecting, and Reporting Racial and Ethnic Data to the U.S. Department of Education." (See the Federal Register, Volume 72, Number 202, pp. 59266-59279). Educational institutions were required to implement this guidance no later than the beginning of the 2010-11 academic year.  The new race/ethnicity reporting categories were available for IPEDS reporting beginning Fall 2008; as a result, some institutions adopted the new collection standards for these categories and reported data using the new categories to IPEDS earlier than 2010-11.
  • To address a recommendation from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity and Inclusion and the Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion to disaggregate race/ethnicity data, this dashboard presents pre- and post- 2010-11 race/ethnicity reporting categories separately. Race/ethnicity categories preceded with a ֍ (see legend) represent categories used to report data to IPEDS prior to 2010-11.  Race/ethnicity categories not preceded with a ֍ (see legend) represent categories used to report data to IPEDS beginning 2010-11. This permits, for example, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders to be reported separately from Asians beginning 2010-11. Users of prior versions of this dashboard will see slight changes in race/ethnicity data from 2010-11 forward.
  • Use caution when reviewing trends in race/ethnicity for years before and after 2010-11 as the race/ethnicity reporting categories to adhere to different data collection standards.  Click here and here for further details.
  • Underrepresented racial or ethnic minority (URM) and "of color" designations are used within the dashboard. URM is based on federal reporting requirements and includes domestic Black or African American, Latino/Hispanic, American Indian/Native American, and Pacific Islanders. However, due to collection limitations, Pacific Islanders are aggregated with Asian students in the SCU Dashboard. URM refers to racial and ethnic groups that are currently underrepresented in U.S. higher education compared to their representation among high school graduates. Asian students are not considered underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities in federal reporting. Asian and those who identify as "Two or more races" are included with URM categories in "of color" aggregations.
  • IPEDS data release stages can be found here; an explanation of IPEDS Data Release Stages can be found here.

 

 

 

Reading Box-and-Whisker Plots

Box-and-whisker plots show the distribution of values along an axis. Boxes indicate the middle 50 percent of the data which is, the middle two quartiles of the data's distribution. The remaining 50 percent of data on both sides is represented by lines also called whiskers, to display all points at the maximum extent of the data.
  The Diversity Dashboard: SCU vs. Benchmark Institutions highlights race/ethnicity and gender composition and representation data. The Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Institutional Research continue to refine the dashboard to provide more detailed demographics, more trend analysis, additional success indicators, and additional campus climate indicators. 

 

 

Population

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fall term.

Includes:

Excludes:

  • Single gender institutions                                           

Function

  The Enrollment dashboard compares SCU's enrollment breakdown by race/ethnicity and gender to other benchmark institutions for the selected survey year. 

Population

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fall term.

Includes:

Excludes:

  • Single gender institutions                                                                                                                             

Function

  The Enrollment Trends dashboard compares the trends in enrollment for each race/ethnicity between SCU and other benchmark institutions over the selected year range.  

Population

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fiscal Year (Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring).

Includes:

Function

  The 4 Year Graduation Rates dashboard compares the 4 year graduation rate of SCU undergraduate students to those of other benchmark institutions, and can be broken down by gender and race/ethnicity. 

Includes

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fiscal Year (Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring).

Includes:

Function

  The 6 Year Graduation Rates dashboard compares the 6 year graduation rate of SCU undergraduate students to those of other benchmark institutions, and can be broken down by gender and race/ethnicity. 

Population

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fall term.

Includes:

Function

  The Retention First to Second Year dashboard compares the total number of first-year students that return their second year at SCU to that of other benchmark institutions. 

Population

  

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fall term.

Includes:

Excludes:

  • Even numbered years, as they are optional reporting years and not all institutions in the Benchmark List reported data 

Function

  The Full-time Staff dashboard compares the race/ethnicity and gender breakdown of SCU's full-time staff to other benchmark institutions.

Special Notes

 
  • Staff comparisons are also based on the Undergraduate comparison institutions.                                              

Population

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fall term.

Includes:

Excludes:

  • Even numbered years, as they are optional reporting years and not all institutions in the Benchmark List reported data 

Function

  The Full-time Staff Trends dashboard compares the yearly breakdown of SCU's staff makeup by race/ethnicity and gender to other benchmark institutions within the selected year range.

Special Notes

 
  • Staff comparisons are also based on the Undergraduate comparison institutions.                                                           

Population

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fall term.

Includes:

Excludes:

  • Even numbered years, as they are optional reporting years and not all institutions in the Benchmark List reported data 

Function

  The Full-Time Faculty dashboard compares the SCU faculty's breakdown by race/ethnicity and gender to other benchmark institutions for the selected survey year. 

Special Notes

 
  • Sixteen comparison schools were chosen for faculty metrics. The list of faculty comparison schools is drawn from the set of institutions used by Santa Clara in salary benchmarking processes.

Population

 

Data are presented by Survey Year and are as of the Fall term.

Includes:

Excludes:

  • Even numbered years, as they are optional reporting years and not all institutions in the Benchmark List reported data 

Function

  The Full-time Faculty Trends dashboard compares the SCU faculty makeup by gender and race/ethnicity to other benchmark institutions in the selected year range. 

Special Notes

 
  • Sixteen comparison schools were chosen for faculty metrics. The list of faculty comparison schools is drawn from the set of institutions used by Santa Clara in salary benchmarking processes.