College Financial Health Essentials Dashboard - Short Tutorial

Name: College Financial Health Essentials Dashboard - Short Tutorial
Uploaded: 2025-09-13T20:22:15+00:00
Duration: 1 min 41 s
Channel: Gary Stocker
Description: In this concise tutorial, the presenter walks viewers through the core functions of the College Financial Health (CFH) Dashboard. After logging in with a…

13 Sept 2025 · 2 min

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In this concise tutorial, the presenter walks viewers through the core functions of the College Financial Health (CFH) Dashboard. After logging in with a paid or trial account, users navigate to the Dashboard Home where they can add or update colleges, select or deselect the national median, and customize the list of institutions for analysis. The tutorial demonstrates how to access specific sections such as short‑term financial health, the VALS Overview text analysis, and college revenue (net tuition revenue over time). Viewers learn to use the indicator‑info feature for metric definitions and the search‑by‑indicator tool to locate all data related to a particular metric, exemplified by finding the 6‑year graduation‑rate percent change for the selected colleges. Throughout, the presenter shows how to return to the top of the page or back to the Dashboard Home, emphasizing the fluid navigation and data‑exploration capabilities of the CFH Dashboard.

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—health dashboard, you have to be logged into your account, whether that's a paid or trial account. Go over here to CFH Dashboard Navigation and go to your Dashboard Home. On your Dashboard Home, you can update your selected colleges by clicking Add or Update College. You can select or deselect the national median, and you can change whichever colleges you would like. So if I'd like to add a particular college, I can search or find that college, click the checkmark, it will be added, and and then you update that college, and that college will carry forward to the rest of your analyses. If you wanted to look at your college's, let's say, short-term financial health, you could select that box on this dashboard section. It's going to take you to that section of the dashboard. You can verify your colleges pulled forward and/or change them. Also use these tabs to navigate to different sections. So VALS Overview is a text-based analysis of some of the data, We could also look at college revenue, looking at net tuition revenue over time here for your selected colleges. If you don't know what that means or want to learn more, you can click the indicator info and it's going to give you additional information on that indicator. If you want to go back to the top of the page, or you can return back to your dashboard home. The last piece here is the search by indicator function. So if you wanted to know everything or all the data we have about graduation rates, You can search graduation rates. I want to find the 6-year graduation rate percent change. I have the definition here, or I could just go straight to that data point. It's going to take me to that area. Here's my 6-year graduation rate. Scroll down a little bit. 6-year graduation rate percent change for all of my selected colleges. And again, I could go back and change those colleges, go to a different section, or even go back to my dashboard home here.