Content For Department Chairs

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These are some dashboards that we have heard that Department Chairs find useful for their work. Please help us to curate this page by sending us your feedback on the usefulness of these dashboards and/or feedback on other dashboards that you find useful and why (email your feedback to ir@csun.edu)

Who Are your Students?

Take a look at longitudinal trends in enrollment by various demographic groups, majors, or class level.

Look at breakdowns in student enrollment by various demographic groups (e.g., race, gender).

What does student success look like in your department?

Learn more about the proportion of students who persist into their second year (filter to your college or department!).

Examine how persistence/retention rates vary by demographic groups.

Learn more about our graduation rates.

Take a look at how graduation rates vary by demographic groups

All faculty, staff, and administrators also have access to dashboards via their CSUN credentials. You can access these by clicking on https://counts.csun.edu. Choose COUNTS after logging in, and take look at some of these dashboards.

**TIP: if you find a dashboard that you use often, click on the star to favorite it and then you can go straight to Favorites (left menu) to find it the next time you log on!**

How do course outcomes impact student success?

Learn about first-year courses that account for 80% of the failing grades freshmen receive in their first year.

Examine how course grades are correlated with student retention and graduation.

Look at how credit momentum (enrolling in 15 or more units in the first semester) impacts student success.

Explore longitudinal trends in DFU rates in departments and courses in your college.

As a department chair, you have access to other content designed just for your work. Some of these allow you to:

Pull a wide array of data about your own students.

Examine course-, section-, and instructor-level grade data on courses in your college

 

IR Data Glossary

Legacy Site – CSUN by the Numbers

Legacy Site – Registration Reports

Login to Additional Dashboards on COUNTS Server

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