Longitudinal student tracking systems now serve a multitude of masters. Growing accountability demands from states, accreditors, and the federal government prominently feature such measures as persistence and graduate rates and time-to-degree. At the same time, resource shortfalls are driving institutions and state higher education systems to examine their operations more carefully in order to achieve greater coherence and efficiency; understanding and monitoring student flow is a prominent part of this effort. In light of these developments, student tracking has come of age. This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research describes important changes in the requirements for student tracking data bases and examines the expanding technical possibilities provided by statewide administrative data bases and by the availability of greatly enhanced data-manipulation and statistical tools for constructing and analyzing longitudinal data files. This is the 87th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Institutional Research. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

This booklet includes the full text of the ISTE Standards for Students, along with the Essential Conditions, profiles and scenarios.

"This volume speaks of the multiplicity of data required to tell the community college story. The authors explore and detail how various sources - workforce data, market data, state-level data, federal data, and, of course, institutional data such as transcript files - all have something to say about the life of a community college"--Back cover.

In THE RESPONSIVE UNIVERSITY, William G. Tierney brings together a distinguished group of practitioners and scholars to describe how colleges and universities might respond more effectively to changing social, demographic, and political forces. Changes contributors propose are far-reaching throughout the entire academy, but, at the same time, practical for achieving high performance.

Presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.

Sure to spark discussions about library innovation, this collection is a must have for staff interested in technology or involved with strategic planning.