Frequently Asked Questions

In many cases, this is just a matter of renewing your membership online at no cost. Please see https://www.adea.org/for-members/MemberBenefits for more details.

There are two possibilities: Either you have never signed up for an ADEA membership, or there is some inconsistency between the email address, the name you entered and what ADEA has in your membership record.

If you are not an ADEA member (or are not sure you are a member), go to www.adea.org/for-members/MemberBenefits to join or look up your membership.

If you are an ADEA member, double check that the email address, first name and last name you entered for the ADEA Data Portal matches the information you submitted for your ADEA member profile. Go to adea.org and click on Login in the top right corner to access your ADEA member profile. After updating your profile information (if necessary, update your email address to match your work email address), use that information to register on the ADEA Data Portal.

The data for these dashboards come from multiple sources. Each dashboard has an Instructions page and a Citation, Disclaimer and Definitions page that provide details about the content of the dashboard, including the data sources. The link to the Instructions page is below the title on each dashboard (“How To Use”). The link to the Citation, Disclaimer and Definitions is in the center of the dashboard footer.

The dashboards are updated throughout the year as new data become available. There is a link to the data refresh schedule on the home page and elsewhere on the site. When dashboards are updated, we will add an alert message to the home page to let users know.

Look for a button or tab in the dashboard that says Participating Schools (or something similar). That will take you to a table showing which schools are included in that dashboard and their characteristics.

Some dashboards include the option to see data about Peer Schools. This refers to a custom set of schools the dental school dean selected to serve as a comparison group for their school in that context. The listing of the schools in the particular peer group is included as a page in the dashboard. A peer group always has at least 5 schools.

If you do not see what you need on the Instructions or Citation, Disclaimer and Definitions pages, feel free to contact us using this feedback form. There is a link to the form at the bottom right of each dashboard and on those other two pages.

Each dashboard has links to an Instructions page, a Citation, Disclaimer and Definitions page, and a feedback form as shown here:

There are a few ways to capture a chart image from an Embedded Power BI dashboard:

• Screenshot: Use your device’s screenshot tool (like Snipping Tool or Windows + Shift + S on Command + Shift + 4 on Mac) to manually capture the chart as an image.
• Export Options: For some visuals, you can use Power BI’s built-in export features to save visuals to PDF or PowerPoint, which include static images of charts. At this time, this applies to very few of the visuals. This is a limitation in embedded Power BI. Microsoft is expected to address this limitation in a future update.
• Browser Print to PDF: You can also use your browser’s print function (Ctrl+P or Command+P) and choose Save as PDF to preserve the chart layout as an image within a document.

Also, be sure that your use of the image conforms to the ADEA Data Portal Terms of Use and that you include the appropriate citation.

Those dashboards present school- or program-specific data that are not publicly available. Access to those dashboards requires approval from a dean-assigned school representative (for school dashboards) or allied program director (for the restricted access allied dental program dashboard). You can request access by clicking the link and completing the form. For school dashboards, this will send an email to the dean-assigned school representative of the school whose data you would like to see, asking them to review and act on the request. For the restricted access allied dental education program dashboard, this will send an email to the program director of the allied program whose data you would like to see. 

Once the request has been approved (or rejected), you will get an email and (if approved) be given access. Access is for a specific school or program and potentially for a limited time, at the discretion of the dean-assigned school representative and for the allied dental program, at the discretion of the program director.

It will stay in this “pending” state until the approver acts on your request. ADEA staff are not involved in the decision-making for the school- or program-specific dashboards. If you are a new program director requesting access to the allied dental education dashboard with your program data, contact adeadata@adea.org. We would need to switch the info of the previous allied program director to your info.

Either your access expired (if you were approved for one-month or one-year access) or it was manually revoked.

The School/Program Level Reports links at the bottom of the home page are provided for the convenience of U.S. dental school deans and directors of ADEA-member allied dental education programs to download their reports from specific ADEA research projects. Other users clicking on the Access Reports links will get a Permission Denied message. If you are a U.S. dean at an ADEA-member dental school or an ADEA-member allied program director and get this message, please contact us so we can address this.

To download a single report, use the Download link for that specific report. To download a Zip file with all the reports, use the Download All link below the table.

Each ADEA faculty compensation report has its own password. The password is available on the page where you downloaded the report. To see the password for a particular file, click on the (eye) icon, or use the (clipboard) icon to copy the password.