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9/26/07
SLU JOINS INITIATIVE ASSISTING STUDENTS IN COLLEGE SEARCH
CANTON - St. Lawrence University is among the hundreds of institutions
supporting U-CAN, a national initiative aimed at providing comprehensive
public information to help prospective students judge the quality of
colleges and universities.
Until the development of the
University & College Accountability Network (U-CAN), a voluntary Web-based
project launching today (September 26, 2007), no single objective consumer
resource existed to help prospective students choose a college or university
that best fits their needs. St. Lawrence joins with other private institutions
in the project, working to offer a solution through a commitment to transparency
and accountability. Participation in U-CAN is one step toward the commitment
of offering consumers improved resources.
Recently, the initiative gained momentum and national attention when dozens
of colleges and universities publicly announced their decisions not to participate
in the most heavily weighted component of U.S. News & World Report's annual
ranking of America's Best Colleges. U-CAN will not include reputation surveys or
rankings. Instead, students and families will have free online access to objective
and measurable data that's supplemented by targeted hyperlinks to an institution's
Web site. Through the initiative, St. Lawrence - which still participates in all
parts of the magazine's annual survey - will work with other institutions to
offer consumers the information they need to make the best college choice.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)
has led the development of U-CAN, which is designed to give, in a common
format, prospective students and their families concise, Web-based,
consumer-friendly, searchable information on individual private colleges
and universities. U-CAN consists of institutional profiles that contain
comparable data and hyperlinks to qualitative campus information. The
information provided in the U-CAN institutional profiles is derived from
the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data
System (IPEDS) survey and the Common Data Set.
Data and narrative sections within the institutional profiles will
cover admissions; enrollment; academics; student demographics; graduation
rates; most common fields of study; transfer of credit policy; accreditation;
faculty information; class size; tuition and fees trends; price of attendance;
financial aid; campus housing; student life; and campus safety.
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More information: St. Lawrence
University's profile on U-CAN
St. Lawrence Admissions and Financial Aid Web Site
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