What is the UC Santa Cruz College Portrait?
The UC Santa Cruz Portrait is an on-line document that displays key institutional data and accountability statistics, primarily about undergraduate students and their educational outcomes. The model for UC version of the portrait is the Voluntary System of Accountabilitys (VSA) College Portrait. This display of institutional data in a consistent format for use by potential applicants and parents was developed by the American Association of Schools and Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC). What new information is presented in the UC Santa Cruz Portrait? Most of the information in the Portrait is already available on our campus website, in data sources like the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) repository in the National Center of Educational Statistics (NCES) through its end user query tools, and in various college guide publications and websites. The UC Santa Cruz Portrait simply pres