2021 Conference Presentations

 

Keynote Address – Social and Academic Value BIG Expectations: Addressing the Increasing Demand for Advanced Analytics for Measuring Value
Sydney Leo, Vice President of Finance and Administration, Boston Architectural College

S1 – Higher Education Data with a Lens on Equity
Dr. Ruby Stevens-Morgan, Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

S3 – How Much Do We Know about Incoming Students’ Profiles and How Can We Make Use of It?
Xiqian Liu, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

S4 – Run, Process, Append: Teamwork and Organization in State Reporting
Amanda Merchant, Liza Farrell, and AbdulHai Mohammed, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

S5 – Newly Improved: Transitioning Assessment Reporting to the Nuventive Improvement Platform
Mary Cheek and Alison Soeder, Texas A&M University-Commerce and Natalie Kistner, Nuventive

S6 – Exploring the Relationship Between Student Grit and Non-Cognitive Skills (Note: slides not available)
Edward Hummingbird, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute

S7 – Survival Analysis and Predictive Modelling on College Students’ Course Withdrawal Rates
Daniel Le, Dallas County Community College District-North Lake

S8 – Closing the Gap: Using Data Analytics to Support Closing the Equity Gap on College and University Campuses
Morris Thompson, Wayland Baptist University and Vicky Morris-Dueer, University of Dallas

S9 – Painless Peer Review
Joy Row, Temple College

S10 – Socializing Data for Continuous Improvement
Craig Morton, Texas Tech University and Tom Rodgers, Watermark

S11 – How College of the Mainland is Helping to Get 300,000 Texans Back to Work in 300 Days
Sarah Flores and Alisha Lyon, College of the Mainland

S12 – Predictive Analytics Process using Machine Learning for Students’ Retention
Luciano Boas, Rohan Patil, and Abhishek Kumar, Texas Tech University

S13 – Interactive Common Data Set Increasing User Engagement and Data Availability with Tableau Dashboards (plus handout)
Bechor Barouch, The University of Texas at Austin and Ryan Mulsteff, Tableau

S14 – Quickly Create Infographics
Laura Wichman, McLennan Community College

S15 – Cluster Analysis and Predictive Modeling on Transfer Students’ Success Rate
Daniel Le, Dallas County Community College District-North Lake

S16 – Examining Variation in Online Credit Hours and the Cost of Instruction – Preparing to Investigate the Impact of COVID-19
Marcia Preston, The Cost Study at the University of Delaware

S2 – Higher Education Data with a Lens on Equity (Repeat Presentation)
Dr. Ruby Stevens-Morgan, Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

S17 – Our BCSSE Student Story in Tableau
Regina Gonzales and Abdul Mohammed, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

S18 – A Look at How One University Fine-Tuned Their Administrative Effectiveness
Morgan Carter, Tarleton State University

S19 – Task Management System Using Office 365 Suite
Rohan Patil, Texas Tech University

S20 – Metrics that Matter: Making a Difference in Student Success via the PDP (plus handout)
Lisa Stich, National Student Clearing House and Paul Turcotte, Texas A&M University-Central Texas

S21 – Developing a THECB Benchmarking Dashboard in Power BI
Holly Cook-Heines, Caroline Haring, and Mauricio Garcia, Palo Alto College

S22 – Introduction to Data Science, Machine Learning and Decision-Making for Higher Education
Luciano Boas, Texas Tech University

Keynote Address: Texas Tri-Agency Commissioners
Commissioner Harrison Keller, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Commissioner Mike Morath, Texas Education Agency, and Commissioner Bryan Daniel, Texas Workforce Commission

S23 – Round Table Discussion on THECB CBM00T Transfer Report
Kate Proff, Texas State University

S24 – The “Y” of LMI (Labor Market Information) 2.0 and Student Outcomes
Daniel J. Chupe-O’Hanlon, Austin Community College

S25 – Strategic Planning in Higher Education
Steven Wilkerson, The University of Texas at San Antonio and Susan Brown, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

S26 – Student Tracker Premium: What Is It and How Can I Use It?
Andi Liner, National Student Clearinghouse and Christina Zavala Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

S27 – Stay Out of the Parking Lot: Keeping Up in between Reaffirmations
Dr. Toni L. Blum, The University of Texas at El Paso and Samantha Cook, Anthology

S28 – Building a Data Science Capacity (Session Cancelled)
Dr. Craig Rodrick, HeliosCampus

S29 – IPEDS Peer Analysis Dashboards as Easy as 123
Preeti Tanwar, CEO HiED Success

S30 – THECB Update
Victor Reyna, Melissa Humphries, John Dinning and Julie Eklund, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board