Accomplishments

2004-2005

1. National Publications: Journal of Higher Education; International Journal of Sociology; Journal of Eurasian Research; submission of Advancing Educational Productivity: Policy Implication from National Databases.



2. Presentations at state and national conferences.



3. Data Redesigns: Production of 1-sheet Departmental Profiles used by academic affairs in preparation for the budget hearings; Third Annual President's Report; High School Profile that provides a report of every Indiana high school that has sent ISU students. The report provides ISU admissions counselors with 10 years' worth of high school performance indicators and information on the success of those students who attended ISU; SCH Worksheet redesigned to accommodate Provost's methodology in calculating workload; the Migration Report tracks student behavior and academic quality as they move from one department to another while at ISU. Chairs can use this to assess from what department are students coming from and to what department are they are going as well as compare the academic success of different student groups; HR snapshot file: The office worked with HR to develop a snapshot file that could be used to report official employee counts and associated data. This table is not currently being used by anyone outside of OSPIRE; Refined the enrollment projection model that allows for budget shifts to be more fully considered.



4. Technology Accomplishments: Development of the BlueFire website which serves as a portal for deans and chairs to access reports they must complete as well as reports that have been generated by OSPIRE for their use; the Transfer SIQ was converted from a paper survey to an online version for quicker turnaround of results to committees; the Strategic Indicators site has been developed and is being redesigned to provide leadership with dashboard indicators; Hiring of Digital Measures to provide assistance with faculty professional activity submissions.



5. Data tool development to aid decisionmaking: OSPIRE is attempting to build several tools that provide decisionmakers with flexibility in considering several scenarios. We have been very successful in building these calculators. Unfortunately, we have been less successful in convincing the decisionmakers to use them. Among the tools: Tuition Projection Program which allows decisionmakers to project revenue generated by tuition based on changes in enrollment figures; Institutional Aid Allocation Calculator that allows decisionmakers to design scholarship allocation strategies and to assess the impact of aid on the decision to come to ISU for different types of students as well as the overall amount needed to attract students with higher GPAs; College Performance Indicator that projects retention and graduation rates based on SAT and high school GPA; Retention Projection for Transfer-in Students that projects persistence rates among transfer-in students based on the timing of transfer-in; Second Year Returning Projection that projects 2nd year returning students based on what they answered on the NSSE survey; and the OSPIRE Tool Box, which contains all the programs mentioned above, as well as longitudinal attrition probability, time-to-degree estimation, and enrollment probability among admitted students.