Resources

• AAUP: American Association of University Professors
  The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.
• ACA: Appalachian College Association
  The Appalachian College Association is a consortium of 33 private liberal arts colleges spread across the central Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
• ACE: American Council on Education
  The American Council on Education (ACE) is the nation’s coordinating higher education association.
• AIKCU: The Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities
  The Association supports Kentucky’s regionally accredited, non tax-supported, nonprofit colleges and universities in the areas of government relations, fundraising, research, cooperative programs and public relations.
• AIR: The Association for Institutional Research
  The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) is dedicated to professional growth of all who participate in decision making related to higher education via management research, policy analysis and planning.
• Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
  The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is the leading typology of American colleges and universities. It is the framework in which institutional diversity in U.S. higher education is commonly described. Most of the Carnegie Foundation’s higher education projects rely on the Classification to ensure a representative selection of participating individuals and institutions.
• CDSX: Common Data Set Exchange
  The purpose of the Common Data Set Exchange is two-fold: (1) to facilitate online exchanges of CDS data (a well-defined set of standard data items constructed with the collaboration of four major publishers: the College Board, Peterson’s, U.S. News & World Report, and Wintergreen/Orchard House); and (2) to provide useful and timely peer analyses for its members.
• CIC: Council of Independent Colleges
  Founded in 1956, CIC is an association of independent colleges and universities working together to support college leadership, advance institutional excellence, and enhance private higher education’s contributions to society. CIC is the only national organization that focuses solely on providing services directly to independent colleges and universities.
• CUPA-HR: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources
  The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) is an institutionally based association of higher education human resource (HE-HR) professionals.
• ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center – Clearinghouse on Higher Education
  The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature.
• HEDS: Higher Education Data Sharing
  The Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consortium is a voluntary not-for-profit organization that assists member institutions in their planning, management, and institutional research.
• HERI: Higher Education Research Institute
  The Higher Education Research Institute is based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Institute serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. HERI’s research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity.
• IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System)
  IPEDS established as the core postsecondary education data collection program for NCES, is a system of surveys designed to collect data from all primary providers of postsecondary education. IPEDS is a single, comprehensive system designed to encompass all institutions and educational organizations whose primary purpose is to provide postsecondary education. The IPEDS system is built around a series of interrelated surveys to collect institution-level data in such areas as enrollments, program completions, faculty, staff, and finances.
• KAIR: Kentucky Association for Institutional Research
  The purpose of the Association is to advance research and knowledge leading to greater understanding, planning, and operation of institutions of post secondary education throughout the state of Kentucky.
• KCPE: Kentucky Council on Post secondary Education
  The Council on Post secondary Education is charged with leading the reform efforts envisioned by state policy leaders.
  • Data Portal: This site provides tables, graphs, reports, and maps with data at the state and institutional levels about a variety of data (e.g. diversity, enrollment, faculty and staff, finance, etc.). It also provides links to national data sources.
• Minter Associates
  John Minter Associates is a research and publishing firm specializing in comparative performance and planning studies and databases for colleges and universities nationwide and abroad.
• NAICU: National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
  The Association supports accredited, non tax-supported, nonprofit colleges and universities in the areas of government relations, fundraising, research, cooperative programs and public relations.
  • UCAN: University and College Accountability Network 
    This consumer information initiative gives prospective students and their families concise, Web-based consumer-friendly profiles of individual private colleges and universities.
  • Higher Education Act (HEA) Implementation Guidelines
    HEA 101 is an effort by NAICU to help its members understand and comply with the new Higher Education Act.  Given the importance of the HEA across all sectors, NAICU is pleased to provide insight, resources, and information on the bill to the higher education community.
• NCES: National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.
• Digest of Education Statistics
  The Digest provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, and federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons.
• NCES Study of College Costs and Prices
  This study examines the relationship between costs and prices at groups of public and private not-for-profit institutions, and explores the potential association between financial aid and tuition, using data primarily from the Integrated Post secondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
• SACS: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools – Commission on Colleges
  The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is the recognized regional accrediting body in eleven U.S. Southern states and in Latin America for those institutions of higher education that award associate, baccalaureate, and master’s of doctoral degrees.
• SAIR: Southern Association for Institutional Research
  The Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) is dedicated to the advancement of research leading to improved understanding, planning, and operation of institutions of Post secondary education.
• Work Colleges Consortium (WCC)
  Berea College is a member of this consortium along with six other colleges that all have work programs.  On each campus, there has been a historical recognition of the value of work and an institutional commitment to promote an understanding of that value among students through establishment of a work program. These work programs help students to understand work as a tool for experiential education, as a means of serving the community, and as a place for integrating academic learning, practical knowledge, and life lived in the larger community. The colleges blend courses in liberal learning and applied studies with their own particular vision of the undergraduate curriculum.

Other Data Resources

• U.S. Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)
  The mission of the Bureau is to be the preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. This site contains the Census 2000 Data.