College Lists 2.0 (2009 NACAC)

College Lists 2.0Moderators:Scott White, Montclair High SchoolShelley Krause, Rutgers Preparatory School

Panelists:Elise Miller, National Center for Education Statistics

Robert Morse, U.S. News & World Report

Lloyd Thacker, Education Conservancy

Cigus Vanni, Cherry Hill West

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An ocean of information

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FILTERINGis key

Contextmakes a BIGDIFFERENCE

CONNECTINGis critical

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What's on your mind?

Blog: a record of a learning journey

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Wiki: a shared space where people can collaborate

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And you all know about databases!

Books are great. Especially if they are indexed.

But tables and databases are

searchable, sortable, updatable.

(Or at least they should be.)

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College Board - Marine Biology - 93 results

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Navigator - Marine Biology - 86 results

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IPEDS - degree completion statistics

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College Navigator

Currently available info:

Programs offered

Degrees awarded

Retention rates

Graduation rates

Price of attendance

Aid availability

Campus safety

Accreditation

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Looking Ahead 2009:

Consumer information items Multi-year tuition calculator

State spending chart

2010: 3 yrs of average net price

1 yr of average net price disaggregated by income

2011:College Affordability Lists

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Why do we do what we do?

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Do we agree that tools serve questions derived from values?

As educators, what are the values and questions such powerful

tools – now in all of our hands – demand from us?

What is our VQ (values and questions) coefficient?

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Transparency & Voluntary Accountability…value-added?

VSA = 329 public colleges/universities

U-Can = nearly 800 private institutions

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NACAC’s Knowledge Center

NACAC’s listserv

check out the College Lists wiki

read/subscribe to some helpful blogs (or start one!)

“The genius is in the conversation…”

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So let’s continue the conversation...these slides available on NACAC’s site,

as well as on Slideshare, tagged "NACAC09"

Moderators  Scott Whiteswhite@montclair.k12.nj.us

Shelley Krausekrause@rutgersprep.org

@butwait on Twitterhttp://relaxnoreally.blogspot.com

Panelists

Elise MillerElise.Miller@ed.gov

Robert Morsermorse@usnews.com

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/

Lloyd Thackerlthacker@educationconservancy.org

Cigus Vannicigusvanni@verizon.net

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Resources Mentionedhttp://collegesearch.collegeboard.com

http://collegelists.pbworks.com

http://www.internationalcounselor.org

http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator

http://www.naviance.com/

http://collegelists.pbworks.com/College-Search-Engines

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges

http://www.educationconservancy.org

http://www.ucan-network.org

http://www.collegeportraits.org

http://www.nacacnet.org/KnowledgeCenter

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Image Creditsall images used via a share-and-share-alike

Creative Commons license, or with explicit permission

Slide 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/2485638194 (fishermen)

Slide 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fras/2620018845/ (red collander)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29093956@N00/1947517257 (old fashioned phone)

Slide 4: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21257461@N05/2550349404 (question notebook)

Slide 5: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/1384952210 (soccer teamwork)

Slide 7: graphic generated by http://www.wordle.net/ with text from the College Lists wiki

Slide 10: graphic generated by http://chartle.net with input from White & Krause

Slide 14: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9ahob/2630086607/ (back-lit figures stretching)