Other Publications of Interest
New Issue of Data
Notes Newsletter Available
Data Notes is a bimonthly newsletter
that presents data from the National Achieving the Dream database.
The March/April 2009 issue of Data Notes has just been released;
you can view it here: http://www.achievingthedream.org/Portal/Modules/e7f22100-545d-48ae-a7e4-9b7767fd7887.asset?
This issue of Data Notes is the first
of a two-part series investigating which academic terms have the highest
frequency of stop-outs at Achieving the Dream colleges. In this issue,
students who stop out during high-frequency terms are examined by enrollment
status, gender, and race/ethnicity. Colleges have been divided into
two groups: those operating on semesters and those on quarters/trimesters.
Similar to national studies on student persistence, slightly more than
half of part-time students at Achieving the Dream colleges stopped out
by the fall of their second academic year. Female students were significantly
less likely to stop out than male students, and Hispanic students were
less likely to stop out over three years than were black, non-Hispanic
white, non-Hispanic; or Native American students.
You can see past issues of Data Notes
on the Achieving the Dream website here: http://www.achievingthedream.org/DATARESEARCH/DATANOTESNEWSLETTER/default.tp
New How-To Guide
on Creating Climate Action Plans for Campuses
The Association for the Advancement
of Sustainability in Higher Education (ASSHE) and the American College
& University Presidents Climate Commitment has released, "Climate
Planning for Campuses: A How to Guide." This 12-part,
100-plus page guide includes details on a variety of different greenhouse
gas mitigation strategies and tactics, plus sections on creating an
institutional structure to support a climate action plan, determining
a baseline carbon footprint, setting emissions targets and measuring
progress, financing climate action, and implementing the plan.
This guide is available online in a
Wiki format, to allow users to suggest additions, revisions and updates.
The guide can be accessed here:
http://www.aashe.org/wiki/climate-planning-guide