UC Institutional and Student Research Inaugural Conference
(January 30-31, 2008, Santa Cruz Campus)

Conference Program January 30-31, 2008 The two-day conference was held at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [More] Conference Attendees Over sixty individuals attended the conference representing each of the nine general campuses and the Office of the President. [More] Conference Evaluation Evaluation of the conference by attendees (using one of the tools described by the "Survey of Survey Tools" panel); representative comments about the conference and the sessions. [Survey results; Comments]

Cultivating a Culture of Evidence

Topical presentations:

• Maximizing Use of the Data Warehouse to Meet Institutional Information Requirements (poster; sample reports: major migration patterns of new freshmen, gateway math course enrollments by student level)
  Kimberly Register & Julian Fernald - UCSC
• Long-Range Enrollment Planning
  Nina Robinson & Ami Zusman - UCOP
• The Budget Process and Enrollment
  Mike Clune - UCOP
• UCOP’s Admissions and Registrant Data Systems and Financial Aid Data
  Dominique Pfaff, Sam Agronow & David Alcocer – UCOP; Helen Paik - UCSD

Poster presentations:

• Retention of incoming and current students: identifying obstacles to academic success
  Kathy Davis & Sabrina Sewell – UCD
• Evaluation of UC Merced's Undergraduate Pioneer Grant Strategy
  Michael Roona – UCM
• Randomizing admission decisions: Could UC Irvine improve the diversity of its incoming freshman class?
  Elise Berry & Kim Rams - UCI
• Survey to assess the current and future housing needs of UCSB's faculty and staff (presentation, poster)
  Laurel Wilder - UCSB
• Parking assessment: will the system be able to provide adequate and affordable access by 2012-13? (poster, needs study)
  Matt Xavier – UCSD
• Suppressing Small Cells Directly from CSS Third-week Data Tables
  Kelly Wahl - UCLA
• Graduate Student Survey: assess issues & needs to inform development of UCSC Graduate Division and GSA programs, services and activities
  Sirinda Sincharoen - UCSC
• Production of central summary data for UCB departments undergoing program review
  Pamela Brown & Elizabeth Wilcox - UCB
• UC Davis has instituted a new academic program review process and developed high quality institutional data to support it
  Dawn Casteel & Kathy Davis - UCD
• Establishing internal and external metrics for benchmarking: based on results from a survey to campus senior management (handout, data sources)
  Sue Grimes & Lucy van Doorn - UCSC

Panels:

• Panel on Outcome Surveys
  Caroline West & Jennifer Keup – UCLA; Bill Armstrong – UCSD; Gillian Butler - UCD
• Survey of Survey Tools
  David Radwin – UCB (presentation, demo); Peter Schmidt – UCD; Julian Fernald - UCSC