SSRA FTIC Student Success Dashboard
- Glendalis Gonzalez
- Kevin Meleedy
- Shruti Kumar
FTIC Student Success Dashboard
Data available:
Retention & Academic Progress Rate for 10 Cohorts
Graduation Rates for 7 Cohorts
Data Source: SID, DWHOUSE, Banner
Refresh schedule: Data is refreshed at Drop/Add, Preliminary, and Final Benchmarks for the Fall semester and after Retention is submitted at the end of Jan. Also after Degrees are submitted each semester. The “Data Refreshed” field on the top right of the page indicates when the data was extracted from sources.
Please refer ODS Dashboard Refresh Schedule for dates.
Note: Accountability Plan Student Success Rates may be different due to timing.
USF Retention & Graduation Rates Homepage: Homepage displays One USF FTIC Cohort 1-Year Retention, Academic Progress (Retention with a 2.0 GPA or higher), 4-Year Graduation, and 6 Year Graduation.
Filters Included: Full-Time Indicator, Gender, Ethnicity (IPEDS), Non-white (excludes Non-Resident Alien and Not-Reported Ethnicity), Under-Represented, Pell, STEM Indicator and First Generation.
Campus Retention & Graduation Rates Homepage: Homepage displays Campus FTIC Cohort 1-Year Retention, Academic Progress (Retention with a 2.0 GPA or higher), 4-Year Graduation, and 6 Year Graduation.
Filters Included: Campus, Full-Time Indicator, Gender, Ethnicity (IPEDS), Non-white (excludes Non-Resident Alien and Not-Reported Ethnicity), Under-Represented, Pell, STEM Indicator and First Generation.
USF and Campus Retention and Graduation Supplementary Pages:
- By Gender – This page displays the Total FTIC Student Population, Male FTIC Population and Female FTIC Population. Filters Included: USF view (Full-Time indicator)/ Campus view (Campus, Full-Time)
- By Ethnicity – This page displays All Ethnicities, Asian, Hispanic, White, Black and Other Student population. USF view (Full-Time indicator)/ Campus view (Campus, Full-Time)
- By Pell Status - This page displays the Pell Status Population as Pell and Non-Pell. USF view (Full-Time indicator)/ Campus view (Campus, Full-Time)
| Data Element | Data Source (underlying data field) | Description |
|---|---|---|
CAMPUS | SID Enrollments | The various campuses of the University of South Florida: Tampa (USFT), Sarasota-Manatee (USFSM), St. Petersburg (USFSP). |
| COLLEGE | SID Enrollments | College is based on Global College crosswalk post consolidation in 2020. This is the starting college of the student. |
FULL-TIME | SID Enrollments | An indicator based on the number of credit hours attempted (not earned) during their first fall term. A student entering in the fall and taking 12 or more credit hours will remain in the full‐time category regardless of the number of credits taken in subsequent terms. |
GENDER. | SID Enrollments | An indicator that identifies the person by female or male classification. |
ETHNIC | SID Enrollments | Categories align with Federal IPEDS definitions of Ethnicity - 1. American Indian 2. Asian, 3. Black 4. Hispanic 5. Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 6. White 7. Two or More Races 8. Non-Resident Alien 9. Not Reported. |
NON-WHITE | SID Enrollments | An indicator based on ethnicities identified as American-Indian, Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Two or More Races. |
UNDERREPRESENTED | SID Enrollments | An indicator based on racial and ethnic populations that are disproportionately represented in higher education. Students identified as Black, Hispanic ethnicities and Federal PELL grant recipients were classified as underrepresented. |
PELL | SID Financial Aid | Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate degree-seeking students who display exceptional financial need and have not earned a bachelor's, graduate, or professional degree. |
STEM MAJOR | SID CIP Groups | STEM baccalaureate disciplines defined by the Board of Governors in the Academic Program Inventory. https://www.flbog.edu/pressroom/strategic_emphasis/ |
FIRST GENERATION | Banner Financial Aid | An indicator for in-state, degree-seeking students taking at least 6 credit hours and that completed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that determined the student to be needy and indicated on the FAFSA that both parents have not completed any higher education degree. Students who did not report First Generation Status or did not fill FAFSA default to 'N' value. |
Filter Panels
Filters are listed on top or on side panel of the report.
Notes:
- Click the down arrow to select from options in the filters and narrow down your results.
- To deselect an item, click on the option again.
- The filters allow multiple selections. To select multiple values in a filter, hold the Ctrl key as you check the square boxes .
- Filters for the report may not have Blank as an option.
Data Panel
Data panel displays the filtered results. To work with data in this panel:
- Select an individual row in the table to highlight the item/row. Select it again to return to the full table view.
- You can sort the data by column values, if the sorting is available for that column. Hover your mouse over the last row item in the column header and if a small black triangle appears
, you can sort that column in ascending or descending order by clicking on your mouse.
Options for the Data Panel
Export Data to Excel
To export the data results to Excel, hover your mouse over the upper right hand side corner of the data table and a horizontal menu bar 
will pop up. Click the 
in the top right corner.
A dropdown menu will appear with 'Export data' as one of the options. Select Export Data to work with the data in Excel.
Note: The exported data in Excel may not look exactly like the screen.
Focus Mode
To see the data in Focus Mode, hover your mouse over the upper right hand side corner of the data table and a horizontal menu bar 
will pop up. Click the option for Focus Mode 
It allows the visual to take the entire space in the report canvas. Full screen mode will persist until you exit out or click on 
the top left hand side.
When in Focus Mode, click the 
in the top right corner and a drop down menu will appear with the following options:
You can export data, or see the data in a table by selecting the appropriate option.
Spotlight
Spotlight causes all other visuals on the page to fade so the selected visual is highlighted. To highlight a visual, click on more action and select
Drill Up and Drill Down
If the visual has the hierarchy, the 
menu will appear when you hover on the top left side of the visual. Turn on drill down first by selecting the downward arrow. The grey background 
lets you know that drill down is active. Selecting 
will expand another level of hierarchy. Selecting the double arrow 
drill-down icon takes you to the next level in the hierarchy. Selecting 
will take you one level up in hierarchy. The arrows will be greyed out if the option is not available.
Reset to Default
If you have made any changes, such as implementing filters or sorting the table, you have the ability to return the sorting and filtering to the report creator's default view. Click the Reset to Default image above the report in the Report Header: 