CIMA provides a forum around effective and efficient use of data to guide campus planning and decision making. The topics and content of the Summer Forum and Annual Meeting sessions reflect this aim.
Summer Forum sessions typically focus on how APLU campuses are engaging with predictive analytics, creating a cross-campus culture of evidence, and determining costs of instruction, as well as how our national research partners handle big data and post-collegiate outcomes reporting.
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2023 APLU Annual Meeting
November 12-14, 2023
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Previous Meetings & Events
Summer Meetings
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Session 1: Empowering and Acting Upon Student Insights: Moving from Assessment Data to Action
Speakers:
Paul E. Mabrey III, Director, Student Success & Enrollment Analytics, James Madison University
Jessica Turos, Associate Director, Office of Academic Assessment, Bowling Green State University
Erika Jackson, Assistant Director, Institutional Analysis, UC Davis
Cheryl Bach, Analyst, Budget & Institutional Analysis, UC Davis
Nick Barbulesco, Partner Program Manager, Budget & Institutional Analysis, UC Davis
Session 2: An Exploration of Institutional Finance: Revisiting the Delta Cost Project
Speakers:
Bryan J. Cook, Director of Higher Education Policy, Urban Institute
Elise Colin, Research Assistant, Center on Education Data and Policy, Urban Institute
Monday, July 17, 2023
Session 3: How do you Boil an Ocean with a Tea Light? One Teaspoon at a Time.
Speakers:
John Stringer, Executive Director of Institutional Research, University of Rhode Island
Session 4: Empowering Your Institution through Data Governance: Navigating Challenges and Driving Value
Speakers:
James Hunt, Director of Institutional Research, Florida State University
Rudy Molina, Vice Provost, Student Academic Success and Enrollment Management, James Madison University
Rick Burnette, Associate Provost for Strategy and Analytics, Florida State University
Stephanie Dodson, Senior Business Analyst, Strategic Initiatives, Uames Madison University
Session 5: Strategies for Improving Data Literacy on Campus
Speakers:
Rob Hopkins, Assistant Provost for Institutional Research, Virginia Tech
Eboni Pringle, Senior Associate Vice President, Student Access and Support & Dean, University College, Kent State
Kim Brooks, Director, Student Success Analytics and Technologies, Bowling Green State University
Session 6: Legislative Update & Public Perception of Higher Education
Speakers:
Craig Lindwarm, Vice President, Governmental Affairs, APLU
Mark Becker, President, Governmental Affairs, APLU
Archie Holmes, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UTexas System
David Troutman, Deputy Commissioner for Academic Affairs and Innovation, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Session 7: Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges
Speakers:
Abram Anders, Director of Communication Innovation and Associate Professor of English, Iowa State University
Thulasi Kumar, Associate Vice Provost, Analytics and Institutional Effectiveness, Virginia Tech
AI Resource Document
Session 8: Data-Informed Decisions: Navigating the Effectiveness of Analytics Dashboards
Speakers:
Brian O’Connor, Assistant Vice President for Data Analytics, University at Buffalo
Abhay Joshi, Director of Analytics, Virginia Tech
Richard Reeves, Associate Vice President, University of Delaware
Steve Wilkerson, Associate Vice Provost and Chief Analytics Officer, University of Texas at San Antonio
Session 9: Leveraging Emerging Academic Data from Remote and Online Learning to Improve Post Pandemic Digital Learning Infrastructure
Speakers:
Karen Vignare, Vice President, Digital Transformation for Student Success & Executive Director, Personalized Learning Consortium (PLC), APLU
Megan Tesene, Assistant Vice President, Digital Transformation for Student Success, APLU
Justin Dellinger, Director, Learning Experience, Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University
Julie Greenwood, Vice Dean for Educational Initiatives, Arizona State University
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Session 1: User Perceptions of Engaging with Institutional Data: “We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know”
Speakers:
Wayne Jacobson, Assessment Director, University of Iowa
Matthew Anson, Associate Director for Institutional Research and Assessment, University of Iowa
Session 2: Democratize Your Data: How to Empower Faculty to Use Data for Equitable Student Success
Speakers:
Megan Tesene, Director, Personalized Learning Consortium, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
John Fritz, Associate Vice President, Instructional Technology Affiliate, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Julie Neisler, Quantitative Researcher, Learning Sciences Research, Digital Promise
Session 3: Strategies for Building High Functioning Data Science Team to Support Decisions at Higher Ed Institutions
Speakers:
Abhay Joshi, Director of Analytics, Office of Analytics and Institutional Effectiveness, Virginia Tech
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Session 4: Moderated Panel on Transfer Students
Moderator: Rick Burnette, Associate Provost for Strategy and Analytics and Interim Chief Information Officer, Florida State University
Hokie Transfer Community-Expanded Transfer Connections
Presenter: Nasim Schwab, Associate Director of Academic Advising Initiatives, Virginia Tech
Examining the Connection Between Credits Loss and Transfer Completion at the State System Level
Presenters: Jess Boersma, Associate Dean for Student Success, Policy and Undergraduate Scholarship, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Holley Nichols, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, North Carolina State University
Samantha Raynor, Assistant Vice Provost for Strategic Student Success Initiatives and Interim Director of the Academic Achievement Center, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Session 5: How COVID Shifted the Student Financial Wellness Landscape: Impact on Current and Future Programming
Moderator: Gregory Thornton, Assistant Director, Center for Public University Transformation, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Presenter: Regina Young Hyatt, Vice President of Student Affairs, Mississippi State University
Session 6: Developing and Implementing an Institutional Analytics Office Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategic Plan
Speaker:
Michele Hansen, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Institutional Research and Decision Support, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Caleb Keith, Director of Institutional Improvement, Office of Planning and Institutional Improvement, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Session 7: Know Your Numbers: Unpacking the Postsecondary Value Framework and the Equitable Value Explorer
Speaker:
Kim Dancy, Associate Director of Research and Policy, Institute for Higher Education Policy
Katelyn DiBenedetto, Senior Research Analyst, Institute for Higher Education Policy
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Session 8: How have Pandemic-Induced Shifts in Course Modality Affected Student Success – An Example Investigation from a Cross-Functional Analytic Partnership
Speaker:
Rob Hopkins, Assistant Provost for Strategic Analysis, Virginia Tech
Session 9: Measuring Student Success in Actionable Ways
Speaker:
Valeria Garcia, Associate Vice President, Decision Support, University of South Florida
Richard Reeves, Associate Vice President, Institutional Research and Effectiveness, University of Delaware
Session 10: Student Data and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
Speaker:
Chad Currier, IT Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Kansas State University
Gary Pratt, Vice President for IT and Chief Information Officer, Kansas State University
APLU Updates (Data Literacy Institute, VSA Analytics, and Powered by Publics)
Speaker:
Denise Nadasen, Assistant Vice President, Institutional Data and Analytics, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Student Debt Update: What are the Policy Options?
Additional Presentation:
Sandy Baum, Senior Fellow, Center on Education Data and Policy Income and Benefits Policy Center, The Urban Institute
Presentations:
Presentations:
Stay Safe Together: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Using the Power of Data and Analytics to Leverage Student Success
Visualizing Enrollment with Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
Using What if Enrollment Modeling Dashboards to Empower Collaborative Academic Planning and Decisions
2019 Detroit, MI
Final Agenda
2019 Executive Committee, Program Planning Committee & Data Policy Committee
Final Attendees List
2019 Group Picture
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Using data to drive student success
Speakers:
Rick Burnette, Florida State University (Moderator)
Bethan Cantwell, Michigan State University
Bob Carpenter, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Competency Based Education: Developing and Measuring Student Competencies
Speakers:
Charla Long, Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN)
Monday, July 29, 2019
APLU Innovation & Economic Prosperity University Designees: Creating and using economic engagement metrics
Speaker:
Shalin Jyotishi, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Cindy Reifsnider, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Job Data Exchange
Speaker:
Jason Tyszko, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
The NEW VSA
Speaker:
Denise Nadasen, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Converting Noise into Signal: Making Big Data & Analytics Institutionally Useful
Speaker:
David Ruiter and Roy Mathew, University of Texas, El Paso
Use-Cases as a tool for improved decision-making
Speaker:
Gesele Durham, George Mason University (moderator)
Brian O’Connor, University of Buffalo
Abhay Joshi, Virginia Tech
The Unintended Consequences of Analytics
Speaker:
Christine Keller, Association for Institutional Research (moderator)
Julie Carpenter-Hubin, The Ohio State University
John O’Brien, EDUCAUSE
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Powered x Publics Workshop: Evaluating progress & success metrics
Speaker:
Julia Michaels, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (Moderator)
Christine Keller, Association of Institutional Research
Patrick Hughes, Texas Tech University
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Creating and Deploying School/ Department/ Center Scorecards
Speakers:
Rick Burnette, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Metrics, Analytics and Institutional Data Administrator, Florida State University
Janet Kisner, Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement, Florida State University
Ethical Use of Data Beyond Privacy
Speakers:
Julie Carpenter-Hubin, Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research & Planning, The Ohio State University
Don Hubin, Director, Center for Ethics and Human Values, The Ohio State University
Monday, July 30, 2018
Challenges to Developing and Supporting a Culture of Continuous Improvement: The Contemporary Assessment Debate
Speaker:
Julie Matuga, Associate Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness, Bowling Green State University
Determining ROI: Can Faculty Value be Measured?
Speakers:
Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Associate Provost for Faculty, Iowa State University
Janet Kisner, Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement, Florida State University
Sunday, July 31, 2018
The Transformational Clusters Initiative –Advancing Student Success Best Practices
Speaker:
Julia Michaels, Director, Center for Public University Transformation, APLU
Final Attendees list
Final Agenda
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Data Analytics for Institutional Success
Speakers:
Amin Qazi, CEO, Unizin
Robert Berdahl, Chancellor Emeritus University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Glover, Provost, University of Florida;
Ruth Watkins, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost, University of Utah
Data to Action for Student Success from Campuses on the Cutting Edge
Speakers:
Sally McRorie, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Florida State University;
Risa Palm, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Georgia State University;
Ken Smith, Vice Provost for Resource Management and Institutional Effectiveness, Virginia Tech
Monday, July 10, 2017
Ethical use of data
Addressing the Rising Costs of Higher Education — Communicating the Complex World of Affordability Metrics
Data Literacy/Effective Communication of Results/Data Visualization
Data Governance (doc 2) (doc 3) (doc 4) (poll)
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
From Analytics to Action (doc 2)
Final Attendees list
Final Agenda
Monday, June 27, 2016
Approaches to Data Governance for Informing Campus Stakeholders
Speaker/Moderator:
Paul Klute, Director of Institutional Research, University of Georgia
Panelists:
Jason Fishbain, Chief Data Officer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mike Kelly, Chief Data Officer, University of South Carolina
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Data-Informed Communications: Beyond the Spreadsheet
Moderator:
Stephanie Bond Huie, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives, University of Texas System
Panelists:
Paula Bales, Communications Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives, University of Texas System
Mark Johnson, Senior Director of Media Relations and Strategic Communication, Arizona State University
Tom Milligan, Vice President for External Relations, Colorado State University
Sunday July 12, 2015
CIMA Session I: Meeting Demands for Improvements in Public System Institutional Research– Jonathan S. Gagliardi, National Association of System Heads
:: Assessing and Improving the Institutional Research Function in Public University Systems
:: Progress Report on NASH Project in IR March 2014
Joint Session: Student Success through Proactive Advising – Infrastructure, Models, and Insights
CIMA Session II: Creating a Culture of Evidence
:: Creating and Sustaining a Cross Campus Culture of Evidence & Data Use– Jillian Kinzie & Natasha Jankowski, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)
CIMA Session III: Harnessing the Power of Big Data
:: Harnessing Big Data and Harvesting Value from Analytics– Ajay Bhargava, Analytics Advisory Group
:: Collaboration to Improve Population Health through Comparative Clinical Analytics– John Cuddeback, American Medical Group Association
Monday July 13, 2015
CIMA Session IV: Responsibility Centered Management
:: Resource Management Model Overview– Jonathan Wickert, Iowa State University
:: University of MN Responsibility Centered Management– Richard ‘Fitz’ Pfutzenreuter & Julie Tonneson, University of Minnesota
:: RCM at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey– Michael Gower, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
CIMA Session V and Lunch: Oh, The Places They Go! Institutional, State, and Federal Models for Tracking Post-Collegiate Employment Outcomes
:: NACE First Destinations Report: Class of 2014– Ed Koc, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)
:: Multi State Longitudinal Data Exchange– Brian Prescott, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)
:: Using Federal Data to Document Student Success and Improve Campus Programming: A Case Study – Richard C. Dirmyer, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
APLU Annual Meetings
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Leveraging Learning Analytics at the Course Level to Improve Student Successs
Jack Seuss, Vice President of Information Technology, The University of Maryland Baltimore County
Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer, University of California-San Diego
Jill Bubin, Chief Academic Officer, Unizin
Karen Vignare, Executive Director, Personalized Learning Consortium, APLU (Moderator)
Measuring Internationalization in a Competitive Global Higher Education Market
Kiki Caruson, Associate Professor & Assistant Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Global Affairs, University of South Florida
Stephen Wisniewski, Vice Provost for Data and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Karin Fischer, Journalist, Chronicle of Higher Education
Janaka Ruwanpura, Vice Provost, International, University of Calgary (Moderator)
Primer on How to Transform the Landscape of Analytics with Data Governance
Rick Burnette, Associate Provost for Analytics and Institutional Data Administrator, Florida State University
Braden Hosch, Associate Vice President for Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness, Stony Brook University
Monday, November 11, 2019
Measuring and Evaluating Equity at Public Institutions
Mary Ann Villareal, Vice President for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, University of Utah
Jason Simon, Associate Vice President for Data Analytics and Institutional Research, University of North Texas
Denise Pearson, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Equity Initiatives, Association of State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) (Moderator)
Mind the Gap: Practical Applications for Narrowing the Achievement Gap at Public Institutions
Brit Kirwan, Chancellor Emeritus of the University System of Maryland
Beth Boehm, Provost, University of Louisville
Monica Brockmeyer, Associate Provost for Student Success, Wayne State University
Rahim Rajan, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Moderator)
$1.5T Student Debt: Is this a Crisis?
Sandy Baum, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center on Education Data and Policy, Urban Institute and Professor Emerita of Economics, Skidmore College
Cinnamon Blair, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, The University of New Mexico
Doug Lederman, Editor and Co-founder, Inside Higher Ed
Crystal Martinez, Director of Education, University of California (Moderator)
CIMA Business Meeting
CIMA Happy Hour/Reception
Sunday, November 11, 2018
The Use of Advance Analytics to Drive Decisions
Steve Wisniewski, Vice Provost for Data and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Tom Eleuterio, Manager, Higher Education Consortia, University of Delaware
Rodolfo Torres, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Kansas
The Role and Importance of Building an Analytics Infrastructure In-House
John Campbell, Vice Provost, West Virginia University
Ken Smith, Vice Provost, Academic Resource Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
Monday, November 12, 2018
Leading Institutional Transformation with NACUBO’s Economic Models Framework
Randy Roberson, Director, Strategic Initiatives, National Association of College and University Business
Officers (NACUBO)
Lynn Valenter, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations, Washington State University, Vancouver
Joe Sobieralski, University Budget Director, University of South Carolina
Creating a Bigger Data Tent for Student Success
Rick Burnette, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Florida State University
Nancy Young, Vice President for Student Affairs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Darlena Jones, Director of Assessment & Research, Association for Institutional Research
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Third-party Vendors for Data Analytics: Friend or Foe? Part I
Neena Verma, Director of Institutional Research, University of Massachusetts, President’s Office (Panelist and Moderator)
Monica Brockmeyer, Associate Provost for Student Success, Wayne State University
Tiffany Mfume, Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention, Morgan State University
Brian Fairhurst, Director of Continuous Improvement, Florida State University
Third-party Vendors for Data Analytics: Friend or Foe? Part II
Rodolfo Torres, Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Research, The University of Kansas (Moderator)
Julie Nagel, Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Kansas
Paul Dosal, Vice President for Student Success and Student Affairs, University of South Florida
Monday, November 13, 2017
The Ethical Use of Data: Still More Questions Than Answers
A Perfect Marriage, Data and Money: Leveraging Institutional Data for the Allocation of Critical Financial Resources
Tiffany Mfume, Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention, Morgan State University (Panelist and Moderator)
Sidney Evans, Vice President for Finance and Management, Morgan State University
Christine Keller, Executive Director & CEO, Association for Institutional Research
Sue Menditto Director, Accounting Policy, National Association of College and University Business Officers
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