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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 [email protected]
Shelley [email protected]
@butwait on Twitterhttp://relaxnoreally.blogspot.com
Panelists
Elise [email protected]
Robert [email protected]
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/
Lloyd [email protected]
Cigus [email protected]
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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)
