Welcome to the second part of your March quarterly update for your Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) service. We’re introducing so many improvements to PDP this month that one update wasn’t enough! More Consistent & Improved Dashboards Improved Benchmarking Functionality The Clearinghouse Website’s New Look More Consistent & Improved Dashboards We’ve […]
AR Enhancements & More
Welcome to the March quarterly update for your Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) service. Spring 2024 Submission Window New Analysis-Ready (AR) File Fields Communications, UI & Dashboard Improvements Spring 2024 Submission Window The spring 2024 submission window is now open, and data providers can submit data from the fall and winter […]
Retention & Persistence Benchmarking Dashboard
The Retention and Persistence Benchmarking dashboard provides a view of first-to-second-year retention and persistence rates for students who attended your institution as first-time or transfer-in students by cohort year as compared to benchmarking institutions. The dashboard displays first-to-second-year retention and persistence rates for up to eight consecutive student cohorts. How […]
Financial Aid Dashboard
The Financial Aid dashboard provides a view of the distribution of financial aid at your institution with a focus on the amount of unmet need within a given cohort and academic year. The information on this dashboard enables you to track financial aid distribution trends by student characteristics across six […]
About the Secure Portal
The PDP Secure Portal will soon become a centralized location for institutions, systems of institutions, and third-party partners to better manage their PDP service. Currently, you can use our Secure Portal to manage users, submissions, and third party authorizations. Accessing the Secure Portal There are two ways to access the […]
Sharing Data with Third Parties
You can use the Secure Portal to grant authorizations to third parties so they can view dashboards (excluding the Financial Aid dashboard), view the Financial Aid dashboard, and/or receive de-identified cohort and course analysis-ready files You can only add or modify authorizations if your account has the Data Authorizer role. […]
Using the Dashboards to Check Data Quality
After your institution has certified your data submission and it passes all data quality checks, the Clearinghouse processes and aggregates the data and provides you with access to analysis-ready files and institution- and benchmarking-level dashboards. Even with data quality checks and audits we apply during the submission and aggregation process, […]
Case Studies
Explore ways that institutions have used the PDP to help their students succeed. Other Case Studies: AACRAO: Navigating the Numbers: How Mercy University Used PDP Insights to Lower Barriers for Returning Students Post-COVID (pdf) AACRAO: An Enrollment Manager’s Guide to PDP Mastery: Insights from the Trenches (pdf)
Transfer Benchmarking Dashboard
The Transfer Benchmarking dashboard provides a view of student transfer-out rates by cohort year at the cohort institution compared to benchmarking institutions. The dashboard includes information on students who enrolled at the cohort institution, and then transferred to another two-year or four-year institution, including data on credentials earned pre- and […]
First Year Credit Completion Ratio Benchmarking Dashboard
The First Year Credit Completion Ratio Benchmarking dashboard provides a view of how successful students are at completing the credits they attempt in their first year of enrollment compared to benchmarking institutions. First-year completion ratios are linked to higher credential completion rates, so this metric can help you identify student […]
