{"id":7066,"date":"2020-10-15T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/?page_id=7066"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:37:19","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Institutional Research serves as the University\u2019s clearinghouse for all external reports. This includes reports to the Board of Trustees for Institutions of Higher Learning for the State of Mississippi, regular reports to the Federal Government, and special requests, such as those demanded by SACSCOC, for information about the institution, which may be directed to the President or other officers of the University.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<p>Institutional Research collects, stores and analyzes data, performs\u00a0key studies, secures\u00a0and provides\u00a0relevant management information, coordinates\u00a0and shares\u00a0data and serves\u00a0as the official institutional source for data and analytical information about the University.<\/p>\n<p>Institutional Research plays an active role in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compiling and disseminating historical data on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/data\/student-data\/enrollment\/\">enrollments<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/data\/student-data\/credit-hour-production\/\">credit hour production<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/data\/student-data\/fall-to-fall-retention\/\">fall-to-fall retention<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/files\/2009\/02\/Fall-8-Year-Retention-2019.docx-2.pdf\">8 Year Retention Rate<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/files\/2009\/02\/Graduation-Rates-19.pdf\">graduation rates<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/data\/community-college-transfers\/\">community college transfers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/data\/student-data\/degrees-conferred\/\">degrees conferred<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining statistics on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/common-data-set\/\">Common Data Set<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/jackson-state-university-report-cards\/\">EAC Report Cards,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/data\/faculty-staff-data\/\">Faculty and Staff<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>Conducting and analyzing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/surveys\/\">student satisfaction surveys<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institutional Research serves as the University\u2019s clearinghouse for all external reports. This includes reports to the Board of Trustees for Institutions of Higher Learning for the State of Mississippi, regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_mc_calendar":[]},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7066"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7066\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/institutionalresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}