Program Investment Plans for Enrollment and Research

the first tab is course information from the past year. Information on this sheet will be used in other parts of the report. There are two columns that need to be filled in by the program – they have headers in blue.  The rows highlighted in blue represent courses with no enrollment.

This tab contains a list of all graduate assistants, by semester, that were assigned to your department in the EPAF system. A significant amount of information is included, but additional information is needed. Those columns have blue headers. Note that the funding source columns may have one or more data points if shared funding existed. 

This can include internal and external awards received by students over the past 3 years.  This should not include those awards that were used to fund an assistantship.  That information should be collected on funding portion of the assistantship tabs.

Projected graduation year should be included if a realy graduation year has not yet been determined.

The video above includes a detailed explnation of this section. 

Much of the data for these tables can be pulled from the Courses tab. A unique row should be completed for each degree bound program.  Remember to include dual/accelerated degree codes when looking at master’s program data.  Please exclude non-degree and certificate-only students. The headers in the persistence rate columns were left as “Column#” instead of an identifying term as not all degree programs admit for every term.

Please include 3-5 per degree program and level, if they differ, for regional competitors. You may determine what your department’s region includes.  Please list just 3-5 for both Institutional Program Peers and Aspirant Program Peers. 

These do not need to align with insitutional peers.

Research production should include that information centered around student focused research for the past three years.  If the only students participating in the research are undergradutes, please include them in the section Faculty Research with no Student Co-Authors. This report is only capturing graduate student inolvment in research.

Dissertation and Thesis should only be included if they have been externally submitted for publication, or are intended to be published.

Please share what honors and awards your students have received, and include travel funding information here as it relates to research. Examples could include placing in internal research competitions (ex. 3MT, GRASP), other University awards (ex. Graduate Student of the Year) or outside awards and honors.

Let us know where your master’s graduates are pursuing PhD degrees. You may choose how far back to go, but we request not more than 10 years.

This captures reccruitment activitities and expenditures, as well as yield funnel data.

This tab focuses specifically on how the department is providing professional development opportunities for your students as they progress through the program. This should not include programming offered by other units that your students simply participated in (Graduate School, Student Wellness, etc.). This can include course-based presentations that included invitations to all program students.