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Research

The IE Office identifies, develops, and conducts ongoing research projects to advance collective knowledge about USCA, student performance, and institutional effectiveness.

Academic Tracking Reports

• # 1: First-Year Student Retention Fall 2002 to Spring 2003
• # 2: Academic Success of Transfer Students from Aiken Technical College Fall 2003
• # 3: First-Year Student Retention Fall 2002 to Fall 2003
• # 4: Fall 2004 Undergraduate Academic Performance by Place of Residence
• # 5: Fall 2003 First Year Cohort Retention to Fall 2004
• # 6: Success and Retention of Entering Freshmen With Admission Prerequisite Exceptions (2004 and 2005)
• # 7: Fall 2004 First Year Cohort Retention to Fall 2005

Faculty

• HERI Faculty Survey 2004
• Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) 2004
• Faculty Salary Inequity Studies 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08
• Study of Faculty Advising Loads, Fall 2003 Through Fall 2005 (2006)
• Faculty Service Learning Workshop Assessment Report (2006)
• Survey of Faculty Interest in Service Learning (2007)

Higher Education and Assessment

• Measuring College Success: The State of Assessment in Higher Education (2005) (text) (slides)
• Delivering Assessment Data Online: The USCA Writing Portfolio (USC Institutional Researchers Quarterly Meeting, March 2005)
• Measuring, Managing, and Communicating Learning Outcomes of General Education. (SAIR, 2005)
• Communicating Assessment Results Online to Promote Curricular Change (SACS,2005)
• Dynamic Delivery: Sharing Learning Outcomes Results Across the University (AIR, 2006)
• How do you know they're engaged if they don't take the survey? Increasing response rates on the National Survey of Student Engagement (SAIR, 2006)
• Did It Promote Quality or Is It Just Another Report? Initial Experiences Using Baldrige Criteria for State Accountability Reports (SAIR, 2006)
• An Approach to Building an Online Data Mart: By GEORGE I Think We've Got It! (SAIR, 2006)
• How Well Does Your Program Review Process Work? Establishing Processes, Outcomes, and Metrics for Institutional Effectiveness (SACS, 2006)

Institutional Characteristics and Studies

• AASCU Graduation Rate Outcomes Study - Campus Self Study: University of South Carolina Aiken (2005)
• Perceptions of USC Aiken's Image, Mission, and Values: Focus Group Research 2005-06 (2006) (text) (slides)
• Perceptions of Administration, Work Load, and Academic and Campus Services at USC Aiken: Focus Group Research 2005-06 (2006) (slides)
• Evaluation of the Administrative Program Review Process at USC Aiken (2006)
• Factors that Attract and Retain Young Professionals in the Greater Area of Aiken County, South Carolina (2007)
• Minority Achievement Program Student Success at USC Aiken (Fall 2006)
• South Carolina Public Senior Institutions Degree Completions Comparison to SC Research and Technical Intitutions 2003-2006 (Fall 2007)
• First Pace Program for Provisionally Admitted Students - Effectiveness Study (Spring 2008)