Institutional Data Archive on American Higher Education, 1970-2011

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Label

Institutional Data Archive on American Higher Education, 1970-2011

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Brint, Steven

Author

• Brint, Steven

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• administrative costs
• administrators
• aggregate
• census
• colleges
• departments
• earned degrees
• education costs
• education expenditures
• educational change
• educational programs
• educational trends
• funding
• graduate schools
• graduate students
• Education, Higher
• higher education
• libraries
• occupations
• research
• scholarships
• school enrollments
• students
• survey
• tuition
• undergraduate programs
• universities
• grants
• academic degrees
• academic disciplines
• admin

Genre

• survey
• census
• aggregate
• admin

Summary

The Institutional Data Archive on American Higher Education (IDA) contains academic data on 384 four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The IDA is one of two databases produced by the Colleges and Universities 2000 project based at the University of California, Riverside. This release, the third compilation of the IDA, is updated through academic year 2010-2011, and includes longitudinal and cross-sectional data from multiple sources. The collection is organized into nine datasets based on the unit of analysis and whether identifiers linking the data to particular institutions are present; seven of the datasets can be linked by a common identifier variable (PROJ_ID), and two cannot be linked due to confidentiality agreements. The seven identifiable datasets contain information on institutions, university systems, programs and academic departments, earned degrees, graduate schools, medical schools, and institutional academic rankings over time. Data regarding student enrollments, average SAT and ACT scores, and tuition and fees has been recorded, as well as institutional information concerning libraries, research activity, revenue and expenditures, faculty salaries, and quality rankings for program faculty. The identifiable datasets also include census information for neighborhoods surrounding IDA colleges and universities. The two non-identifiable datasets contain confidential survey responses from IDA institution presidents, chancellors, provosts, and academic vice presidents; survey questions pertained to governance structures, institutional goals and achievements, and solicited opinions on current and future issues facing the respondent's institution and higher education in general