{"id":202,"date":"2025-09-15T18:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability-new\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:33:48","slug":"undergraduate-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/undergraduate-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Undergraduate Experience includes student participation in high-impact practices, gains in critical thinking, and overall college experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measures of performance and success should be viewed through the lens of university context and mission. The Universities of Wisconsin have differences in missions, students served, and resource capacity. All UW universities work to create environments that respond to their unique mission-driven mandates and support their student success goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:85%\"><div id='tableauViz' height='679px'><\/div>\n                <div id='dialog'><\/div><script>jQuery(document).ready(function() {initializeViz('https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/UWAccountability-UndergraduateExperience\/UndergraduateExperience','100%','679px',true,false,'','');});<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Additional Dashboards<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/key-solid-full.png\" alt=\"Key Icon\" class=\"wp-image-13\" style=\"width:80px\" title=\"Access\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/key-solid-full.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/key-solid-full-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/key-solid-full-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:12px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/economic-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/city-solid-full.png\" alt=\"City Icon\" class=\"wp-image-10\" style=\"width:80px\" title=\"Economic Development\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/city-solid-full.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/city-solid-full-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/city-solid-full-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/faculty-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/person-chalkboard-solid-full.png\" alt=\"Person Chalkboard Icon\" class=\"wp-image-14\" style=\"width:80px\" title=\"Faculty &amp; 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The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), conducted by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, was administered during spring semester to campus-based random samples of first-year (freshmen) and graduating senior students at UW four-year institutions. National comparison data are drawn from a custom NSSE tabulation of all participating U.S. public four-year higher education institutions. Peer comparison data are based on participating public institutions with similar characteristics and exclude the UW university selected on the dashboard. The NSSE survey was updated in 2013, and many questions were reworded to improve clarity and relevance. Survey results beginning in 2013 may not be directly comparable to prior years.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/UW-Undergraduate-Experience-Peers.xlsx\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UW Undergraduate Experience Peers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participation in high-impact practices<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Rates of participation indicate the proportion of students responding \u201cdone or in progress\u201d to the following items (variables) from the NSSE: learning community (learncom), research with faculty (research), internship (intern), study abroad (abroad), and culminating senior experience (capstone). Participation in service learning (servcourse) indicates that at least \u201csome\u201d courses included a community-based project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contribution of college experience to critical thinking<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Rates indicate the proportion of students responding \u201cquite a bit\u201d or \u201cvery much\u201d to the following items (variables) from the NSSE: thinking critically and analytically (pgthink), analyzing an idea in depth (HOanalyze), and applying facts, theories, or methods (HOapply).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overall college experience<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Rates indicate the proportion of students responding as follows to items (variables) from the NSSE: entire educational experience (evalexp) of \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cexcellent\u201d, and attend institution again (sameinst) of \u201cprobably\u201d or \u201cdefinitely\u201d yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Availability of general education courses is an extra survey question added by UW universities except UW-Milwaukee in each year and UW-Madison in 2023. National and peer comparison data are not available.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/accountability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/361\/2025\/09\/Dashboard-Users-Guide-and-FAQ.pdf\">User&#8217;s Guide<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate Experience includes student participation in high-impact practices, gains in critical thinking, and overall college experience. Measures of performance and success should be viewed through the lens of university context and mission. The Universities of Wisconsin have differences in missions, students served, and resource capacity. 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