Introduction

This dashboard repesents a review of students who take the LIB 100 course. It includes a review of basic demographics (race, gender, origin) as well as what the students participate in on campus (Greek life, Athletics,) and finally their academic outcomes. This analysis is descriptive only and is not controlled. As such causal inferences cannot be drawn from these findings.

Most students take LIB 100 within their first four terms, with 10% going on to take a higher level course in LIB after LIB 100. Student who take LIB 100 are slightly more likely to be male, and an athlete. Those who take LIB 100 are more likely to major in Economics, Communications, and Finance than their peers who did not. First year retention and graduation rates tend to be higher for those students who took LIB 100 than those who did not, but it is unknown if this relationship is causal (it is unknown if students who haver a higher probability of retention enroll in LIB 100 at higher rates).

Course Enrollment

This section provides an overview of enrollment statistics as well as a look at when students enroll in the course.

Enrollment by Term

This section looks at the enrolled students by term. Note that the format is YYYYMM where the first four digits are the year and the fifth and sixth digits are when the term started, so 80 = fall and 10 = spring.

Enrollment by Cohort

This section looks at the enrollment by first time, full time students by cohort (e.g. 2014 means the first year students entering in 2014).

When do they take the course?

This next chart looks at what term students take LIB 100.

How many students go on to upper level classes?

To date 9.6% take a higher level course in LIB after LIB 100.

Demographics

This section is an overview of the demographics of those students who took LIB 100 versus those who did not.

Race

Race is defined by self-declared race. If a student identifies as Hispanic, then they are counted as hispanic, regardless if they chose multiple races. Additionally, international students are included in the race that they selected rather than separately as “Non-Resident Aliens” as in IPEDS reporting.

Race Took LIB 100 (%) Did not take LIB 100 (%)
American Indian / Alaska Native 0.1 0.2
Asian 9.3 9.9
Black or African American 8.1 6.1
Hispanic / Latino 7.2 6.8
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander 0.1 0.0
Race and Ethnicity Unknown 0.2 0.1
Two or More Races 2.7 2.9
White 72.4 74.0

Gender

Gender Took LIB 100 (%) Did not take LIB 100 (%)
F 41.4 56.6
M 58.6 43.4

First Generation Status

First generation is established at time of admission. A student is deemed first generation if neither of the student’s parents completed college.

Status Took LIB 100 (%) Did not take LIB 100 (%)
Not First Generation 90.8 91.5
First Generation 9.2 8.5

Region

This section looks at the geographic background of the students who take LIB 100.

Region Took LIB 100 (%) Did not take LIB 100 (%)
INTERNATIONAL 7.9 7.2
MIDWEST 6.6 6.9
NC 20.8 20.8
NORTHEAST 28.5 26.5
SOUTH 31.0 32.2
WEST 5.2 6.4

Campus Engagement

Athlete

This looks at students who were recruited as a Freshman athlete.

Athlete Status Took LIB 100 (%) Did not take LIB 100 (%)
Athlete 15.5 5.8
Non-Athlete 84.5 94.2

Campus Employment

This section looks at the percentage of students who were employed by WFU while taking LIB 100. This does not include any outside employment information.

FR Cohort Did Not Work (%) Worked (%)
2010 76.4 23.6
2011 74.7 25.3
2012 79.9 20.1
2013 81.7 18.3
2014 83.8 16.2
2015 87.3 12.7
2016 87.9 12.1
2017 90.4 9.6

Greek

This section looks at the percentage of students who were active in Greek life while taking LIB 100.

FR Cohort Greek (%) Non-Greek (%)
2010 54.9 45.1
2011 41.1 58.9
2012 36.7 63.3
2013 34.6 65.4
2014 31.9 68.1
2015 33.4 66.6
2016 35.9 64.1
2017 0.0 100.0

Academic Outcomes

GPA

This reflects the distribution of GPAs at the end of the term in which the student took LIB 100.

FR Cohort 25th Percentile Mean 75th Percentile
2010 3.00 3.31 3.69
2011 2.99 3.28 3.64
2012 2.93 3.24 3.61
2013 2.96 3.29 3.64
2014 2.97 3.31 3.66
2015 3.08 3.35 3.65
2016 3.11 3.37 3.65
2017 3.14 3.48 3.80

First Year Retention

This is looking at the first year retention (e.g. if the student remained at WFU after his/her first two terms).

FR Cohort Took LIB 100 (%) Did not take LIB 100 (%)
2010 100.0 91.8
2011 98.2 92.3
2012 97.6 91.3
2013 98.7 92.7
2014 98.0 92.5
2015 96.3 95.0
2016 97.1 94.7

Six Year Graduation Rate

This is looking at the six year graduation rate of students who took LIB 100 versus those who did not.

FR Cohort Took LIB 100 (%) Did not take LIB 100 (%)
2010 96.6 86.4
2011 92.0 86.8

Course Work

Majors

This chart reflects the most recent declared major(s) for those students who are eligible to declare a major. Note that since students can declare up to two majors, some students may appear twice in the data. This is not necessarily the student’s declared major while taking LIB 100.

Minors

This chart reflects the most recent declared minor(s) for those students who are eligible to declare a minor. Note that since students can declare up to three minors, some students may appear up to three times in the data. This is not necessarily the student’s declared minor while taking LIB 100.