About University Data & Analytics
Mission
Our mission is to provide data, expertise, analyses, and staffing necessary to support the University's planning, institutional research, and university assessment committees and processes.
University Data & Analytics (UDA) supports the University's leaders and strategic planning processes by providing objective, accurate, and timely information, analysis, and advice to inform decision-making and resource allocation processes. In addition, the Office conducts studies that describe, analyze, and evaluate the operations and outcomes of the University and maintains an electronically accessible database of institutional trends.
Responsibilities and Activities
University Data & Analytics serves several internal and external constituencies. UDA is the source for official university statistics, based on our databases of student and employee data.
Internal Requests
University Data & Analytics provides statistics for a wide on-campus constituency, such as students writing class reports or ASMSU proposals, faculty developing grant proposals or trend studies for particular courses, and administrators planning resource allocation. UDA works closely with the Registrar's Office, the Office of Student Success, HumanResources, the Office of Institutional Equity, Career Services, Athletics, Admissions, and Communications and Public Affairs to design research projects, provide data, and conduct analyses.
University Data & Analytics provides information for the shared governance Councils created by the President. This information comes in the form of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for academic departments, Delaware Study for comparative cost and productivity data, and other ad hoc reports.
External Requests
UDA provides data for over 100 surveys sent to MSU annually. Off-campus requestors of institutional statistics include local news media, the Commissioner for Higher Education, the Governor's Office of Budget and Program Planning, federal agencies, and other colleges and universities. UDA regularly prepares reports for the Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the College and University Professionals Association (CUPA), the Delaware Studies of Instructional Costs/Productivity and of Faculty Activity, and Oklahoma State University's annual faculty salary survey (accessible only to MSU). The Common Data Set (CDS), a format developed by four major guidebook publishers, which has become the de facto standard for basic college reporting, is available online.
University Data & Analytics reports to the President, and the Chief Data Officer is a member of the President's Executive Council.
University Data & Analytics Staff
Jason Browning, Ph.D.Chief Data Officer, jason.browning@montana.edu
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Ian C.P. Godwin, Ed.D.Associate Director, igodwin@montana.edu
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Rebecca Belou, M.P.A.Senior Data Scientist, rebeccabelou@montana.edu
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Mary Kate Blake, Ph.D.Data Governance Manager, marykate.blake@montana.edu
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Vincent Liang, M.S.
Data Scientist
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Tonya Lauriski-Karriker, Ph.D.Senior Data Scientist, tonya.lauriski@montana.edu
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Leonardo Valladares, M.S.Senior Data Scientist, leonardo.valladares@montana.edu
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