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Academic Operations: Benchmarks and Ties to Student Success

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  • Research
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  • Data
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  • Student Success
  • Technology

Academic Operations: Benchmarks and Ties to Student Success

Academic Operations: Benchmarks and Ties to Student Success

A survey of AACRAO’s list of member institutions provides a benchmark report aiming to advance the knowledge and understanding of how institutions conduct and catalog academic operations and their relation to student success.

Academic Operations: Benchmarks and Ties to Student Success

Coursedog, Research Sponsor | AACRAO, Research Lead

AACRAO Research surveyed its list of member institutions that serve undergraduate students to identify and tabulate institutional similarities and nuanced differences in academic operations related to managing the curriculum, catalog, classroom scheduling, and course scheduling. Key insights of the report include consideration of:

  • the use of technology and data
  • institutional function and structure
  • catalog updates and implementation processes
  • barriers to student success and access to information

The survey received responses from 281 undergraduate-serving institutions; United States institutions account for most respondents (n=268).

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Unless otherwise noted in a specific report, the AACRAO member institution size, type and control categories are based on the following definitions and sources: 
The enrollment value used to delineate the institution's size category is defined as full-time enrollment plus 1/3 of part-time enrollment and is based on the enrollment reported by the institution to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 
Institution type and control values are also defined by and verified through NCES criteria.