University Analytics & Institutional Research (UAIR) is excited to announce the addition of a new field in the CSW - Student Academic Profile and CSW - Student Academic Profile Snapshot subject areas. This new field is named Primary Military Affiliation and this should be used to identify military affiliated students. This data was previously handled by a complex logic of multiple military status fields and/or descriptions. We have converted this logic into a single column, and it solves a previous issue of one student being classified as two different military affiliations.
UAIR has worked closely with our Veterans Education & Transition Services department to define the hierarchy of a student’s military affiliation. The hierarchy of military affiliations is as follows:
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Active Duty
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Guard Reserve
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Veteran
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Spousal Dependent
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Child Dependent
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Other Dependent
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Unknown Military Affiliation
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No Military Affiliation
This hierarchy is also used as pop-up text in the subject area, for a quick way to obtain the logic of this field. UAIR highly recommends updating any analyses that use the previous logic of identifying military affiliated students with this new field.
UAIR is currently working to insert this column into various other subject areas including, but not limited, to CSW - Admission Profile, CSW - Student Retention and Graduation, and CSW - Student Degrees.
We hope you find this addition helpful. Please reach out to the UAIR Student Data Team if you have any questions.
Thank you,
University Analytics & Institutional Research