Office of Data Analytics

The ODA facilitates effective decision-making by:

• Creating a data infrastructure that is responsive to the strategic needs of and critical questions posed by decision makers, including faculty, staff, and partners
• Accessing, integrating, and leveraging data from multiple domains to support planning, decision-making, internal and external reporting across student and academic affairs, SOE operations
• Providing consultation on assessment, evaluation, and survey initiatives
• Constructing and administering surveys supporting the continuous improvement of programs, departments, offices and centers (e.g., program evaluations, unit operations, and administrative evaluations)
• Facilitating focus groups, when needed, to collect data to inform curricular and program improvements based on experiences of completers and current employers
• Configuring and implementing the assessment system to facilitate student learning outcomes data collection for academic programs
• Providing assessment system end-user training and support for faculty coordinators in academic programs
• Configuring and maintaining an accurate completer database
• Assessing and evaluating student and academic affairs, enrollment management, as well as operations, to ensure the success and learning of our students and enhanced school effectiveness
• Accessing, integrating, and leveraging data to support academic program proposals, including market analysis, and academic program review
• Applying a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lens to our analytics work
• Disseminating data and analytics that provide insight about strategic efforts, the success and learning of students, and SOE performance
• Facilitating a website, web-based reports, and dashboards, in partnership with Communications, that provide internal and external stakeholders with access to timely, accurate and actionable data
• Building data literacy across SOE to support data-informed decision making