UAIR Publications and Media Mentions

• "No Exceptions: How UMass Transformed Their Data Culture " (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 18, 2024) [PDF]
• "UMass Amherst Students, Staff Collaborate to Make Equity-Minded Analytics Easily Accessible" (UMass News Article, March 10, 2022)
• "UMass Amherst Got Its Data Analytics Platform Online Just in Time for the Pandemic" (EdScoop Article, October 29, 2020)
• "Cultivating a Climate of Data-Informed Decision-Making at UMass Amherst" (eCampus News, June 12, 2020)
• "New Data Dashboards Introduced to Support Faculty, Staff in Decision-Making" (UMass News Article, January 17, 2020)

(AIR = Association for Institutional Research Annual Conference, NEAIR = North East Association for Institutional Research Annual Conference)

• Helping Underpaid Faculty get What They Deserve (2024, NEAIR)
• Is it Instructional Stress? Analyzing Teaching Load (2024 - poster, NEAIR)
• Visualizing Data from the National Student Clearinghouse (2023 - panel, NEAIR)
• Impacts of Abrupt Modality Change on Course Success (2022, NEAIR)
• Using Data to Optimize Resources for Course Placement (2022, NEAIR)
• IR as an Inclusion Advocate: Gender Identity Reporting (2022, NEAIR)
• Navigating Change (2022 - panel, NEAIR)
• User-Friendly Data-Driven Strategic Planning (2022, HelioCampus Client Summit)
• User-Friendly Data-Driven Strategic Planning (2021, NEAIR)
• IR Research Solutions During COVID‐19 (2020 - panel, NEAIR)
• You’re Hired! Cognitive Strategies to Optimize Employment Dashboards (2019 - poster, NEAIR)
• Retention Quest: Who Stays, Who Goes and Why? (2018, AIR)
• Student Retention: Why do they go and how can we make them stay? (2017, NEAIR)
• Undeclared No More: Effects on Admission, GPA and Retention (2016, NEAIR)
• Is starting as an undeclared major a bad thing? A look at first-year undeclared students' characteristics, major declaration patterns and their influence on retention and graduation rates (2013, NEAIR)
• Tracking Graduate Student Progress (or lack thereof) to the Degree (2012 - poster, NEAIR)
• Inventing a New Wheel: Assembling a Campus-Wide Doctoral Program Review (2012, NEAIR)
• Benchmarking Instruction in the Research University (2006, AIR)

• Data Literacy Evolved: Thinking Differently About Your Stakeholders (2025 HelioCampus Client Summit)
• Data Literacy Evolved: Thinking Differently About Your Stakeholders (2024, AIR)
• Providing a Culture of Data Literacy (2024, HelioCampus Client Summit)
• Building Data Literacy and Use in Decision-Making in Practice (2023, AIR)
• Building Data Literacy and Use in Decision-Making in Practice (2022, AIR)

• Adventures in Analytics: Implementation, roll-out, and beyond (2024, AIR)
• You Have Dashboards... Now Optimize Their Delivery (2023, NEAIR)
• A Tale of Two Universities: Sharing the Keys for Post-Implementation Success (2022, HelioCampus Client Summit)
• Student Activists & IR: An Equity-Minded Collaboration (2021, NEAIR)
• Tandem Surfing the Data Tsunami: An IR-IT Analytics Collaboration (2020, EduCause)
• Adventures in Analytics: Implementation to Roll-Out (2019, NEAIR)
• From 0 to 60(00+): Speeding to Roll-Out and Beyond (2019, HelioCampus Community Call)
• Building a Culture of Evidence, Building a Culture of Trust (2019, Cornell Data Science Forum)
• Implementation to Roll-Out: Chronicling the Year of an Analytics Initiative (2019, AIR)
• Adventures in Analytics (2018, NEAIR)
• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Tools for IR: How do we get there? (2009, NEAIR)