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Measures of Institutional Effectiveness

Launched December 19, 2012; Table legend below

		Metric Type Name	Actual	Actual Change %	Peer Average	Time Period
Campus Profile
		Total enrollment	25,086	0.16%	25,470	2011-12
		Annual change in total enrollment	0.16%	-91.62%	1.39%	2011-12
		Percent of undergraduate students receiving Pell grants	38.0%	22.58%	34.0%	2010-11
		Race/ethnicity diversity as a percent of total students	17.9%	9.82%	22.0%	2011-12
		Race/ethnicity diversity as a percent of total staff	15.5%		20.6%	2011-12
		Race/ethnicity diversity as a percent of total instructional staff	12.6%		15.4%	2011-12
		Average high school GPA of incoming freshmen	3.28	0.31%	3.30	2012-13
Student Outcomes
		Six-year graduation rate	55.9%	7.09%	55.9%	2005-06
		Bachelor degrees awarded per 100 FYES undergraduate students	20.6	-0.48%	19.1	2010-11
		Graduate degrees awarded per 100 FYES graduate students	44.7	-1.76%	37.0	2010-11
		Second year retention rate	74.0%	-2.63%	78.0%	2010-11
Outreach
		International students as a percent of total	5.6%	12.0%	4.6%	2011-12
		Number of seniors surveyed that participated in Study Abroad	11.0%	-8.33%	14.0%	2011-12
		Number of seniors surveyed that participated in Community Service or Volunteer Work	56.0%	-6.67%	56.0%	2011-12
Research
		Research expenditures per traditionally ranked faculty	US$ 38,526	-8.80%	US$100,695	2010-11
		Federal research expenditures per traditionally ranked faculty	US$ 22,601	-5.19%	US$62,581	2010-11
Finance
		Institutional support per FYES	1,750	-0.40%	2,482	2010-11
		Endowment per FTE student	US$ 9,088	16.68%	US$10,083	2010-11
		Alumni giving rate (undergraduate)	9.0%	-10.00%	14.0%	2010-11

Institutional Effectiveness Measures Print Version

Legend

Each of the measures of institutional effectiveness appears as part of the university scorecard.  A status indicator appears far left column, along with other values that describe the status of a measure. These indicators allow the user to see detail about how far above or below the peer average the measure is.  The symbol and color depend on how the measure performs compared to the peer average and are based on the tolerances set.  The current tolerance is set to 10% of the peer average.

Symbol	Color	Performance
	Green	More than one tolerance above target
	Partially Green	Within one tolerance above target
	Yellow	Within one tolerance of the target
	Partially Red	More than one tolerance below target
	Red	More than two tolerances below target

Also provided is a trend indicator, just right of the status indicator. The trend indicator shows the direction of change in the performance of a measure (i.e. whether it is improving, staying the same, or getting worse). Trends are determined by comparing performance from one year to the next. The trend indicator shows an improvement or a decline in performance using up or down arrows and based on whether the performance has changed at least 5 percent. A dash is used to indicate no change or less than 5 percent change. It is important to note, that a performance improvement can be represented by a green down arrow if a decline in the measure value indicates a positive.

Data provided with each measure include, in order of column appearance, the value of the indicator for WMU (Actual), the percentage change from the prior year (Actual Change %), the peer average for the same year (Peer Average), and the time period of the data presented (Time Period). (Depicted below.)

		Metric Type Name	Actual	Actual Change %	Peer Average	Time Period
		Six-year graduation rate	55.9%	7.09%	55.9%	2005-06

As an illustrative example, if one were to examine the six-year graduation rate measure, one would see that WMU’s six-year graduation rate for the 2005-06 cohort is 55.9%. The change from the prior year’s six-year graduation rate was 7.09%. The average six-year graduation rate of WMU’s Carnegie peers was 55.9% for the same cohort. Therefore, the status indicator is a partially green circle indicating that WMU’s six-year graduation rate is above the peer average but not by more than 10% of the peer average. The trend indicator is a green up arrow because the difference between the peer average and WMU’s actual six-year graduation rate increased over 5 percent between the 2004-05 and 2005-06 cohorts.