Institutional Research & Analysis

CSU Book of Trends

The Book of Trends (BOT) 2011 represents the continuing commitment of the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis (IRA) to present updated information about Cleveland State University (CSU). A variety of tables and charts provide trend information over a five-year period as well as some key attributes and characteristics of the University for the most recently completed academic year.

1. The student information presented in the Book of Trends 2011 is based on the End of Semester files used for Ohio Board of Regents (OBOR) reports unless specifically noted from a different data source.

2. Students exclusively enrolled in English as a Second Language, Study Abroad or other zero credit hour courses are included in the Book of Trends for years 2006-10.

3. This year’s BOT begins to reflect recent changes in the University’s organization by breaking the School of Nursing out of the College of Education and Human Services in many (but not all) tables; hence one may notice a shift in prior year’s numbers for those units.

4. Last year’s table 3.12 Dual Major Enrollment by College and Academic Level has been removed and an extra column has been added to Tables 3.1-3.11a to provide the information formerly presented in table 3.12.

5. There have been a few changes in section 1: (a) A table has been added to section 1 which details the leadership of the Student Government Association, (b) the Distinguished Alumni Awards table remains the same as last year’s because the awards ceremony has been moved to October and the winners haven’t been announced yet.

6. Last year’s table 8.25 Enrollment by Country or Regions has been moved to table 2.19 to more clearly delineate the differing definitions of IR’s Non-Resident Alien students and CISP’s definition of International students.

7. IPEDS Cohort Graduation and Retention tables 5.6a & b are now accompanied by 5.6c & 5.6d which represent New Masters and Doctoral cohorts. New Doctoral and New Masters students are categorized by IRA and Graduate Admissions.

8. The Nance College of Business has been renamed the Monte Ahuja College of Business in honor of alumnus Monte Ahuja, MBA ’75, who donated $10 million to the University to support scholarships and an endowed chair.

9. The various Deans’ offices provided IRA with a set of grant/highlight information used to produce Table 4.13. IRA limited these selections in order to meet space requirements. This table is not intended to be a comprehensive listing, but merely to reflect some of the interesting activities of our faculty, staff and students.

10. Each year we attempt to provide comparative data to other colleges and universities in Ohio. These comparisons are typically centered on information available from the Ohio Board of Regents’ Higher Education Information System (HEI) http://regents. ohio.gov/hei/index.php. At the time of publication a few of the tables normally presented here were not available due to some schools updating prior years’ data, or changes to the HEI system. Please be aware that the HEI tables presented in this year’s book represent various states of completion: a. The data may be complete for the reporting year and can be used accordingly. b. The data may be complete for most institutions, but a few may be unfinalized, in which case only finalized ones are reported or in some cases unfinalized numbers are included but footnoted as such. c. In some cases many schools had unfinalized the type of data being reviewed and in those cases we have simply reproduced the prior year’s data with appropriate titles and footnotes.

11. With the decentralization of Continuing Education that portion of section 3 has been removed from this year’s Book.

12. The procedure used to identify CSU’s IPEDS cohort has been updated to be a more collaborative effort between IRA and the Registrar’s Office.

13. This year we will report Ethnicity data using the new IPEDS definitions which includes the category ‘Two or More Races’.

Please direct questions and/or suggestions to 216-687-4700. The entire Book of Trends series is available online on the IRA website (http://www.csuohio.edu/iraa/bot/bookoftrends.html).

We encourage you to reference the web version of the Book of Trends because we can easily make changes/updates if necessary. By the same token, if a URL is provided in the book such as the ones linked to Research Centers & Institutes, the Ohio Board of Regents, etc., we encourage you to refer to the linked site for the most up-to-date information.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of the campus community as well as our graduate assistants for their support and contributions to this publication.

Institutional Research & Analysis
Cleveland State University