1. FAEIS in Action Accessing data from the Food and Agricultural Education Information System Thursday, March 31, 2005 New Orleans, LA Bill Richardson Ella Smith

2. FAEIS In Action During this session you will: – Identify key elements for analysis – Review how to use the FAEIS data – Review report builder movie – See the report builder in action – Request information from the database – View output in various fashions

3. SURVEY TYPES Student – Enrollment – Degrees awarded – Placement of graduates Faculty

4. Uses of FAEIS Data Assessments Outcomes Peer Analysis Benchmarking Addressing Priority Areas

5. USDA/CSREES Priorities Agricultural and Environmental Quality Agricultural Security Genomics and Food and Fiber Production Obesity, Human Nutrition, and Food Science Food Safety Rural and Community Development

6. Uses of FAEIS Data (con’t) Identify institutions with similar programs – Curriculum development – Student recruitment – Partnerships Identify new programs – Interested in developing a new major who else has that major? – How many students are there? Measure trends – How has the program developed over time – Number of enrollment/graduates – Ethnicity and Gender breakouts

7. Uses of FAEIS Data (con’t) Measure Productivity (outcomes/assessment) – Since revising the curriculum what are the impacts in student enrollment? – Benchmarking – Peer Review Research Priorities

8. Other Data Sources Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) – student graduation data College & University Personnel Association (CUPA- HR) – Faculty data by discipline Oklahoma State University – Faculty data by discipline (most 1862 land grant institutions participate) National Science Foundation – Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) Institutional Research Office on campus

9. Methods of Accessing Data Designed reports for data 1993-2000 – REEIS (www.reeis.usda.gov – Reports Tab)www.reeis.usda.gov 2002 and 2003 summary reports on FAEIS Web site (http://faeis.usda.gov) Custom Report Builder for data 2002-current

10. REPORT BUILDER Primary tool for accessing and summarizing FAEIS data Multiple dimensional report generator with filters on all survey elements Report Builder Movie

11. Questions? What would you like to see? What program areas are of interest?

12. FAEIS Contacts General Information – Ella Smith USDA/CSREES/SERD esmith@csrees.usda.govesmith@csrees.usda.gov (202-720-3842) REEIS 1993-2000 FAEIS data – Bill Bristow bill.bristow@reeis.usda.govbill.bristow@reeis.usda.gov (202-690-1956) www.reeis.usda.govwww.reeis.usda.gov (Reports Tab) 2002-present FAEIS data – Tom McAnge faeis@vt.edufaeis@vt.edu (540-231-4941) http://faeis.usda.gov