Welcome to University Analytics
Our Vision
We will be a creative force for good in higher education. We will accomplish this by answering important questions by combining our sophisticated integrated infrastructure for analytics and business intelligence, and digital transformation with the use of appropriate analytical techniques (regardless of its level of sophistication) to develop and communicate actionable insights into systems and tools so that they may be acted upon. We are successful when we help one, one hundred, or one thousand students reach their educational goals <something about administrative parts of the strategic plan?>.
Our Mission
Under the leadership of the Associate Provost for Analytics and Institutional Assessment, the mission of University Analytics is to provide an integrated infrastructure for analytics and business intelligence, and digital transformation. University Analytics will –
- Advise the campus community on the effective use of data-gathering and institutional analytics to support strategic planning, continuous improvement, and institutional assessment
- Support evidence-based decision-making within academic affairs and will be responsible for the development of an integrated process and infrastructure for academic planning, assessment, and analytics consistent with the strategic objectives and priorities of the University’s strategic plan
- Support the deployment of new processes for periodic institutional assessment exercises, university accreditation, and continuous improvement, including the development of a transparent structure for the summary, documentation, and communication of institutional assessment efforts within academic affairs
- Support academic affairs units in evaluating and meeting their goals by facilitating the sharing of information from the University’s analytic and data systems, and guiding the development and deployment of new data and analytical resources for the benefit of the campus
- Participate in the re-envisioning of the student experience through a comprehensive analysis of the student journey from recruitment through graduation with targeted investments to redesign areas of greatest need and highest value
- Support recruitment, enrollment, retention, and persistence by leveraging predictive analytics and targeted, data-driven interventions along with information technology resources to scale those interventions
- Improve access to institutional data by investing in modern infrastructure, processes, and visualization that reduce barriers to finding, understanding, and using data and information
- Improve the velocity and accuracy of decisions by building analytical capability to interpret and act on institutional data
- Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our workforce by redesigning processes, infusing new ways of working and collaborating into our practice and automating activities that do not directly enhance the student experience