Technical Guide for Assessing Administrative Holds with Data

Special Topics

This field-tested technical guide was created to help institutions identify the data and analytical skillset required to examine their undergraduate-student-level-transcript and registration-hold data. The results of these analyses are intended to be used by an institution to understand how hold practices are uniformly impacting the undergraduate-student population from a statistical perspective and to help determine if policy or practice revisions are needed. These analyses should be conducted hand-in-hand with undergraduate-student-focus groups and cross-functional staff discussions about current practices.

VIEW PDF

Unless otherwise noted in a specific report, the AACRAO member institution size, type and control categories are based on the following definitions and sources:

The enrollment value used to delineate the institution's size category is defined as full-time enrollment plus 1/3 of part-time enrollment and is based on the enrollment reported by the institution to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).