|
|
|
GLOSSARY DEPARTMENT Academic
divisions below the college level (See “College”). Departments exist in all colleges with the exception of the
College of Health Sciences, where the major divisions are titled “Schools”
rather than “Departments.” COLLEGE Academic
divisions at Old Dominion University. Colleges
include: Arts and Letters, Business and Public Administration, Darden College of
Education, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, and Sciences. COURSE
LEVEL Level
of student at which a course is optimally aimed. Courses are divided into foundation, lower, and upper
division for undergraduate instruction, and first and advanced for graduate
instruction. The course number
assigned to the course indicates course level. COURSE
REGISTRATIONS A
measure of enrollment that summarizes the total number of students registered in
each class across all classes at the University. A student’s enrollment is represented in the registration
count for each course the student is taking.
“Course Registrations” are sometimes referred to as
“Enrollments.” DEGREES
CONFERRED The
total number of degrees awarded during a fiscal year. The University Factbook reports the number of degrees awarded
during the August, December, and May graduation as a single year. ENROLLMENT See
“Headcount”, “Student Credit Hours Generated”, “Full-Time Equivalent
Students”, “Course Registrations FISCAL
YEAR Fiscal
year represents a 12-month period for which an institution/organization plans
the use of its funds. Old Dominion
University's fiscal year begins July 1 and ends June 30. FULL-TIME
EQUIVALENT STUDENTS (FTES) A
means of expressing student enrollment in full-time units.
In practice, students take a variety of credit hour loads—some
full-time, some part-time. Calculation of an FTE figure normalizes these loads and
produces a student count which reflects the number of students who would be
enrolled if all were taking exactly the same full-time credit load (15 hours for
undergraduates, 12 hours for graduates).
A student-level FTE calculation
puts total credit hours in units of full-time students by dividing total credit
hours by the normal full-load as determined by the undergraduate or graduate
status of students counted. For
example, if 150,000 hours of instruction are taught, undergraduate FTE would be
10,000 (150,000 / 15 = 10,000), regardless of the number of headcount students
enrolled. A course-level FTE
calculation is similar and would divide the credit hours by the level of the
course instead of the student’s level. FULL-TIME/PART-TIME
STATUS Status
assigned to a student based on their credit hour load taken.
Undergraduate students taking 12 or more hours in a semester are
considered full-time. Graduate
students taking nine (9) or more hours in a semester are considered part-time. HEADCOUNT Unduplicated
count of students enrolled for one or more credits in an institution of higher
learning. Most typically this measure is reported for the fall semester only,
which the semester with the highest level of enrollment.
On occasion, an unduplicated headcount is calculated on an annual basis,
summarizing enrollment of individual students across three semesters. IN-REGION/OUT-OF-REGION Place
of residence of student. In-Region
includes Virginia's Planning Districts 20 and 21.
Planning District 20 consists of Isle of Wight County, Southampton
County, Chesapeake, Franklin, Norfolk,
Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach. Planning
District 21 consists of James City County, York County, Hampton, Newport News,
Poquoson, and Williamsburg. All other locations are designated as Out-of-Region. IPEDS
(INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM) REPORT Any
of several reports required annually by the U.S. Department of Education and the
Office of Management and Budget. These reports include counts of full- and
part-time faculty and staff, faculty salaries, institutional characteristics,
headcount enrollment, degrees conferred, graduation rates, financial statistics,
financial aid, and library resources. ON-
/ OFF-CAMPUS HEADCOUNT According
to the SCHEV definition, the unduplicated number of students enrolled for at
least one on-campus course. Off-campus
campus headcount includes only those people taking exclusively
off-campus courses. ON-CAMPUS
AND OFF-CAMPUS INSTRUCTION Designation
indicating location of instruction. On-campus
instruction occurs at the main campus in Norfolk.
Off-campus instruction occurs away from the main campus or received via
distance education technology. REPORTS
ON INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS (ROIE) The SCHEV Reports on Institutional Effectiveness (ROIE)
are an accountability reporting system established in the year 2000.
This system of reporting utilizes both SCHEV and institutional data to
describe the institutions and are intended to provide meaningful information on
the academic quality and operational efficiency of Virginia’s public
institutions of higher education. The ROIE includes institutional mission, profile measures,
system-wide measures, and institution-specific measures.
For more information see http://research.schev.edu/roie/. SCHEV The
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) is the Commonwealth’s
coordinating board for higher education institutions. Its mission, which is
outlined in the Code of Virginia, is "to promote the development of an
educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated
system of higher education" in Virginia.
More information can be found at http://www.schev.edu.
SCHEV
REPORT Any
of several reports required annually by the State Council of Higher Education
for Virginia (SCHEV). These reports
include data on admissions, headcount enrollment, course enrollment, enrollment
projections, degrees awarded, financial aid, facilities, and tuition rates.
More information can be obtained about SCHEV reports at http://research.schev.edu.
STUDENT
CREDIT HOURS GENERATED A
measure of enrollment and instructional productivity that summarizes all course
hours taken by students across the University. The number of students in each course is multiplied by
the credit hours earned in the course then summed across the University. STUDENT
LEVEL Designation
indicating progress of an undergraduate or graduate student through a program of
study. Undergraduate students are
considered freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, or lower level (freshmen
and sophomores) and upper level (juniors and seniors).
Graduate students are designated first graduate (masters) or advanced
(doctoral) graduate level. Students
who are not in degree programs or who cannot be classified by level are
designated as “unclassified” undergraduate or graduate students. TELETECHNET TELETECHNET
is Old Dominion University’s distance education initiative which encompasses
instruction delivered both synchronously and asynchronously via satellite,
internet, virtual classrooms, and other media. TERMINAL
DEGREE The
terminal degree is the highest obtainable degree within an area of academic
study. UNCLASSIFIED
STUDENT A
student enrolled as a non-degree student in either an undergraduate or a
graduate level. These students are
not eligible to elect a program and must reapply for admission to degree-seeking
status to begin pursuing a degree. Some
programs limit the number of hours a student can take as a non-degree student
before they apply for degree-seeking status.
|
|
|