Curriculum Inventory Reporting (CIR) Users Manual
Table of Contents
- Section I - Curriculum Inventory Record Layout (Record Type 1 and Type 2)
- Section II CIR - Data Element Dictionary
- Section III - CIR Reporting Procedures
- Appendices
- Appendix A Institution Codes
- Appendix B Campus Codes (Georgia Perimeter College, only)
Introduction
The Curriculum Inventory Reporting System, or CIR, is a data base consisting of data on individual academic courses conducted in the University System of Georgia. The CIR system contains data elements for each course section identifying the offering institution, department and academic field, course name and number, section number, term in which the course is offered, level of instruction and number of students, credit hours, and much additional information, including several fields pertaining to distance education.
A record in the CIR system consists of a unique combination of course acronym, course number and section number that represents only that specific course/section. All of the other information pertaining to that particular course/section can be accessed through that unique combination of codes, and data in the system also can be aggregated and analyzed according to a variety of research needs.
The CIR has many potential uses, but its paramount purpose is to produce an accurate record of total USG semester credit hour production by funding group and level. Those SCH subtotals are the raw numbers, along with SCH-based faculty/staff funding factors and a funding factor for facilities maintenance, that drive the USG funding formula and produce the annual USG budget request to the General Assembly.
The broad changes in the CIR System reflected in the following pages are the result of many new developments in higher education delivery in the University System of Georgia, as well as a rapidly increasing need for policy-related data concerning USG academic operations. The revised system provides the institutions and the USG significantly enhanced research and reporting capabilities.
Not only can distance education and other off-campus instructional activities be reported with much greater accuracy, but the sites at which those increasingly important USG activities occur can be identified and reported with greater specificity under the revised CIR System. You will note in Section I that there are now two record layouts in CIR to accomodate revised reporting requirements.
You also should note that there are now two census dates and two due dates per term. With the occurrence of mini-mesters, an end of term census date has become necessary to capture all courses starting after the regular census date and not reported in the regular CIR report. The end of term census date will fall after the latest drop/add date in the System for those courses. The end of term due date will fall shortly after the second census date.