What You Receive

A report you can act on

Most assessments hand back a data file and leave the interpretation to you. Every NASCE administration returns a scored, benchmarked report built to be read by a president in five minutes and by your institutional research office in full.

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These are real pages from a NASCE institution report. The institution shown is fictional and the figures are illustrative, so you can see the structure and the reasoning without looking at another college's results.

Alderwyck CollegeEst. 1871
the NASCE
FROM SPARC
National Assessment of Service and Community Engagement

Your engagement,
measured.

27
EstablishedInstitutional POP score
Prepared for the Office of Community Engagement
The coverYour score and tier, before anything else
What this says
about Alderwyck
Executive read
Spring 2026
27POP
Est.Tier
61%Serving
18%Deeply
Alderwyck sits in the Established tier, six points above the national median. Participation is the strength. Depth is the constraint.
Three findings
1Wide, not deep. Only 18% describe service as sustained.
2Two areas carry the institution. Five fall below national.
3Engagement falls after the first year, inverting the curve.
Three moves
AConvert breadth to depth in the two strong areas.
BInvest in Elder Care and Economic Opportunity.
CRe-measure in two years against a target of 33.
the NASCE, from SPARC
The executive readFindings and moves on a single page
Your score in
national context
Benchmark
91 institutions
Scores across the national dataset run from 3 to 52. Alderwyck's 27 places it above the median of 21.
27
EmergingEvolvingEstablishedIntegratedPervasive
Compared with institutions that resemble yours:
21
All
26
Private
25
Size
28
Region
Benchmark drawn from the 152-administration comparative base across 90 institutions, 2009 to 2026.
The national benchmarkWhere you sit, and beside whom
The eight areas
of need
Area POP
vs national
Each area carries its own score. The marker shows the national figure.
Youth Development38
Hunger & Nutrition34
Civic Participation31
Health & Fitness29
Environmental26
Homelessness24
Economic Opportunity19
Elder Care16
Institutional POP is the average of the eight area scores.
All eight areasStrength and shortfall at a glance
Breadth against
depth
Diagnostic
by area
Two areas can share a score for opposite reasons. This separates them.
Deep, narrow
Deep and wide
Thin
Wide, shallow
Alderwyck's strongest areas sit wide and shallow. Depth conversion is the faster route to a higher score.
Breadth against depthThe diagnostic that sets the strategy
Where to act
Ranked
by return
Ranked by how much each move would change the institutional score.
Highest
Convert episodic service into semester commitments

A 6-point depth shift moves the score from 27 to roughly 33, crossing into Integrated.

High
Build capacity in Elder Care and Economic Opportunity

Both sit near 10 points below national. Lifting the lowest areas has outsized effect.

High
Close the first-year onboarding gap

First-year participation trails third-year by 14 points.

Suggested target for the next administration: 33.
Where to actRecommendations ranked by return
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The institution, its identity, and every figure shown are invented for illustration. Your report carries your own data, your institution's name, and the national comparison current at the time of your administration.

Included at every tier

Four things, every administration

Price changes with enrollment and modules. What you receive does not.

The presentation

Your results presented to your team and walked through by the people who built the instrument. Most institutions run this with the cabinet or the engagement committee in the room.

The full report

The scored, benchmarked report with appendices. Written to be read at two depths: an executive read at the front, complete detail behind it.

The infographic

A single shareable page carrying your score, your tier, and your position nationally. Built to go into a board packet or a campus announcement without redesign.

The data

Frequencies and crosstabulations for your institutional research office, so your own analysts can cut the results any way they need.

How it is written

Built for two readers at once

A report that only an analyst can read does not move an institution, and a report that only summarizes does not survive scrutiny. Every NASCE report front-loads the executive read, then carries the full methodology, the area detail, and the segment cuts behind it. A president can act on page two. An institutional research director can audit every number that produced it.

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