FAEIS Newsletter

June 6, 2007

In This Issue

• Annual User Survey Coming to YOU
• 2006 Survey Results Online
• College Profiles
• New Academic Disciplines and CIP 2010
• FAEIS Peer Panel Meeting
• Changes at FAEIS

Welcome to the FAEIS newsletter. To read more about FAEIS, click here.

We need your help! You'll be receiving an e-mail with a link to the FAEIS annual user survey. PLEASE take a moment to respond. Your answers and feedback are vital to the complete mission of FAEIS. Results will be tabulated and presented to the FAEIS Peer Panel at our meeting in July (see below). If you have already responded, THANK YOU!

The 2006 student and faculty FAEIS survey data is now available.

To use the new data, login to Report Builder with your FAEIS userid and password. Contact the FAEIS Team for assistance.

FAEIS users are familiar with the MY REPORTS section of the data entry website. Recently we modified MY REPORTS to allow you to view this information for all the institutions in FAEIS. Just login to FAEIS, click on MY REPORTS, select an institution, and select a report. (NOTE: not all institutions in FAEIS have submitted data).

Every 10 years the US Department of Education revises it's Classification of Instructional Programs. FAEIS uses "CIP 2000" codes to specify the disciplines for student and faculty data entry. New CIPs will be published in 2010, but they are already starting on the revisions!

If you have a program at your institution that can not be classified using the current CIP codes, please send this information to the FAEIS Team and we'll pass it on to our contacts at the USDA who will be participating in the CIP revision effort.

For example, Viticulture and Organic Agriculture are programs currently taught that do not ave matching CIP codes. As a consequence, these programs must be recorded under less specific disciplines, such as Plant Sciences or Horticulture. The result being, new and emerging disciplines may not be indicated in the data.

The FAEIS Peer Panel consists of representatives from the USDA and our 7 sponsoring organizations. Every year in July we hold a meeting with the Peer Panel and the FAEIS team from Virginia Tech. This year the meeting will be held July 18-19 at the USDA/CSREES waterfront building in Washington, DC. More information about the Peer Panel can be found at the FAEIS website.

Dr. Timothy Mack, principal investigator for the FAEIS project at Virginia Tech since 2002, has accepted a new position as Dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Georgia Southern University. He will remain on the FAEIS team as technical consultant and Co-PI.

Dr. Mary Marchant, Associate Dean and Director of Academic Programs for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virgiia Tech, is the new principal investigator for FAEIS.

Dr. Dean Sutphin, co-principal investigator for FAEIS, will continue in that role.

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