LibraryC4 Enablers4b Data sharing and governance
LTI-ENA-013
Purchase National Student Clearinghouse StudentTracker datasets for cohort tracking
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearappliesFour-year to four-yearapplies
Mechanism
A National Student Clearinghouse StudentTracker subscription shows where students went when they left, including out of state and into private universities. Without it, transfer-out looks like attrition.
Preconditions
Research budget for the annual subscription.
Owner, by role
Director of Institutional Research
Who can act
One institution alone
Effort
Small, 3 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Accuracy of transfer-out rates; destinations identified
Failure modes
Incomplete student name or record matching in NSC database can lead to undercounted transfer-out rates.
Contra-indications
None stated