2025 Conference Presentations

 

Time Session Code Title
Wednesday, Feb 26 at 2:30pm A1 Data Literacy at Dallas College
A2 Identify Potential Graduates – Some tricks
A3 Challenges to Leading and Framing Digital Strategy and Data Governance for Institutional Research and Analytics
A4 Demystifying Weighted Semester Credit Hours: Applications and Implications at UTSA
A5 Enhancing Enrollment and Tuition Revenue Forecasting with Data Visualization
Wednesday, Feb 26 at 3:45pm B1  What Predicts North Star Completion at ACC
B2 Program Evaluation: Assessing Programs with HB8 and Unlocking Opportunity in mind
B3 Creating a starting point for institutions with machine learning predictors
B4 Academic Scheduling Dashboard Warehouse
B5  Islands of Data: Connecting Student Retention to the National Student Clearinghouse
B6 Organizing the Process: UT Austin’s Modernization Journey for Documenting and Training New Employees for CBM Reporting
Wednesday, Feb 26 at 4:45pm C1 Using the Economic Hardship Index to Drive Student Success
C2 Mitigating Early Student Loss Through Internal and External Collaborations
C3 Maximizing the Value of Portable Data in Higher Education
C4 Projecting Incoming Cohort Size, Characteristics, and Course Enrollments via Machine Learning
C5 Trends in Student Debt and Financial Aid
Thursday, Feb 27 at 10:30am D1 Developing a Tool to Predict First-Time Freshmen Academic Success
D2 Strategies for Using Student Progress Grades to Promote Student Engagement in Support of Successful Final Course Grade Performance
D3 AIRES: A Specialized STEM Internship Program
D4 Going with the Flow: Using the THECB Texas Talent Trajectory Dashboard to Understand High School Students’ Path to Higher Education
D5 COACHE Faculty Satisfaction Survey Analytics and Reporting
Thursday, Feb 27 at 11:30am E1 Utilizing predictive model to project the student-centric schedule
E2 The Impacts of Texas Educational Opportunity Grants on Student’s Outcomes
E3 A Coherent Data Model for Learning Assessment
E4 Building Student Personas with a Focus on Energizing Data Driven Decision Making
E5 Market Research and Strategic Planning with BLS and IPEDS Data
E6 Benchmarking Dallas College’s Key Performance Indicators: Integrating Diverse Data Sources to Assess Institutional Success
Thursday, Feb 27 at 2:15pm F1 Factors Impacting Community College Students’ Transfer and Baccalaureate Completions
F2 Cultivating Data Culture: Data Mindsets & Behaviors to Fuel Success
F3 Post-College Financial Outcomes: Am I Better Off Going to (Your) Institution?
F4 Credentials of Value Methodology – Community College Finance
F5 Proactively Equipping Decision Makers: Tableau Dashboards for Budgeting, Salaries, and Market Research
F6 Empowering Excellence: Building an In-House Tool for Academic Program Assessment
Thursday, Feb 27 at 3:30pm G1 Texas A&M University’s transformation of IR, data strategy and governance and HelioCampus partnership
G2 Revolutionizing Data Access: How Our IR Office Transformed Reporting, Management, and Evaluation (Transforming Data Access)
G3 IPEDS Flat file uploading
G4 Changing Tides: Moving SACSCOC Standards 6.1 and 6.2b from Excel to Tableau
G5 Pathways from K-12 into the Labor Market
G6 Legitimizing Affective Learning Outcomes Assessment
Thursday, Feb 27 at 4:30pm H1 Charting Our North Star: The Role of the Office of Institutional Research and Analytics in Developing Austin Community College’s Theory of Change
H2 Utilize SAS to support course scheduling and faculty pay data
H3 Taming the Data Tides: Streamlining Database Workflows with Stored Procedures and GenAI
H4 Enhancing Research Insights: Leveraging Power BI to Empower End-User
H5 CBM Reporting 101: A Newcomer’s Guide to Data Reporting for Texas Higher Education Institutions
Friday, Feb 28 at 9:00am I1 Dynamic Retention Model Deployment: Scalable, Cloud-Based Solutions for Timely Inter-ventions
I2 Using Confluence to Stay Organized and Improve Productivity
I4 Understanding Graduate Student Completion Rates and Student Success
I5 THECB Internal DMR Onboarding + Ongoing Hub for Employee Resources
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Friday, Feb 28 at 10:00am THECB Update
Keynote Dr. Jason Simon Creating Change with Analytics: The Not-So-Secret Analytics Playbook Built By and For IR Practitioners