APLU Annual Meeting Sponsor Post: How Academic Analytics Serves the Public University Community

By Academic Analytics

For more than a decade, Academic Analytics has partnered with public research universities to facilitate and enrich conversations around faculty accomplishments and development. Out of the interactive collaborations this partnership has fostered, Academic Analytics has jointly developed a portfolio of data-based instruments and services designed to:

• Explore faculty scholarly activity
• Identify, assess, and pursue key strategic goals/plans
• Determine the most appropriate sets of departmental and program comparators
• Analyze research trends among comparable departments and programs
• Better understand the research and publishing cultures of disciplines
• Facilitate faculty development
  • Recruitment, and Retention
  • Research Funding
  • Honorific Awards
  • Scholarly Collaboration
• Follow the careers of graduate and postdoctoral alumni
• Showcase scholarly accomplishments and capabilities for industry, donors, governmental representatives, prospective graduate students, and the media
• Provide data for scholars investigating core issues in higher education through the Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC)
• Make data available for analysis to higher education associations

Through robust engagement with academic leaders, Academic Analytics has cultivated powerful, data-based ways to deepen understanding of the achievements and needs of our partnering universities, enabling public research university leaders to develop more resilient and equitable institutions.