Dear College Official,

We are once again requesting your help in updating your school’s profile in the Fiske Guide to Colleges. We understand that the coronavirus pandemic is playing havoc with all of our lives, personal and professional. We at Sourcebooks are working from home in order to assure the well-being of our colleagues and family members; we know you and your colleagues are doing likewise.

That’s why we’re making some important changes to simplify our information-gathering process during this challenging time. For the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022, we ask that you please complete the following basic steps:

1.        Ensure that we have access to your institution’s 2019–2020 Common Data Set.

2.        Provide comments on your school’s most recent write-up.

3.        Enlist a few students to complete the student questionnaire.

Our institutional questionnaire remains open and available to anyone who wishes to go beyond these three basic steps and fill it out, but we are not requiring schools to do so this year. Instead, we ask that you prioritize reviewing and offering comments on your school’s most recent write-up. Such feedback is critical to keeping your school’s profile fresh and timely.

A few things to remember:

• We have added a new field at the bottom of the institutional questionnaire where you can provide a link to your institution’s 2019–2020 Common Data Set. If your 2019–2020 CDS is not publicly available on your school’s website, please email it directly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• We also ask that you offer comments on your school’s most recent write-up. Write-ups are available to review now. When you are logged in, you can access the write-up by clicking the “Write-Up” button in the User Menu on the left-hand side of the home page.
• Don’t forget to invite 6 to 8 students to complete the student questionnaires at http://fiske.sourcebookscollege.com/index.php/student-questionnaire. When you are logged in, you will see the Student Access Code displayed in the lower menu on the left-hand side of the home page; the Student Access Code is also provided to you by email.
• Please send any contact information changes or updates to Julie Hogan, production coordinator, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Note that our system only allows us to save one contact per school.
• If there are other members of your staff, either within your department or in another department, who will be responsible for completing or contributing to your materials for the Fiske Guide 2022, please feel free to share your log-in username and password. You will not need to acquire a secondary username or password for additional staff members.
• If you would like to complete any portion of the institutional questionnaire, please feel free to do so. But we are not requiring schools to submit the institutional questionnaire this year.

Thank you in advance for your time and efforts in updating the information on your school. We look forward to receiving your Common Data Set, write-up comments, and student responses no later than May 29, 2020.

Sincerely,

Edward B. Fiske

Editor, Fiske Guide to Colleges