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Announcements:

Our presentations take you behind the scenes! We’ve been out. Out of the office and out of Austin. Staff members have been presenting at conferences, discussing research, as well as sharing how our productivity dashboard has evolved. Most recently, there were three presentations given at the 2013 Association for Institutional Research (AIR) conference. We’ll continue adding to these, so see what we’ve been presenting.

Dr. Stephanie Huie has been appointed chair of the national advisory committee at NASH that will oversee a project to assess the role of higher education systems in institutional research and how that may change to improve data capacity to measure and improve institutional performance.

UT System wins SAS Excellence in Education award!

Now you can explore more from your iPad! Click here for a three-minute video to walk you through, step-by-step, on how to download the Mobile BI app, connect to the UT System server, and subscribe to/open reports.

The UT System Productivity Dashboard. 

UT System has been a leader in accountability and transparency, and now we have taken the next step in our efforts to increase transparency; measure more effectively our productivity, efficiency, and impact; and demonstrate more clearly our accountability.

The Dashboard is a business intelligence system that includes web-based applications for extracting and analyzing institutional data. Its purpose is to provide current data, trends over time, and comparative benchmarking across a variety of metrics in support of better decision- and policy-making.

We are continually adding more data, more metrics, and more levels of drill through. We also add links to additional analysis and related external white papers as they become available.

Examples of data and functionality include:

• Institutional View. Dropdowns at the top right of each dashboard allow you to select an institutional view, providing immediate campus-level dashboards in addition to the higher level System view. You can also select All Academic or All Health.
• Tuition & Fees. We have put out a report analyzing various institutional trends in published price. Published price includes tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, and other expenses for beginning undergraduates. Peer comparisons are also included.
• Student Metrics. These include admissions test scores for entering students, undergraduates per professional academic advisor, licensure exam pass rates, and time to a baccalaureate degree by area of study.
• Navigation Panel. As the number of metrics and views on the dashboared continues to grow, we want to keep the user experience as friendly as possible. The new navigation panel on the lefthand side of the portal pages will help you navigate to various areas of the dashboard, and, in some cases, take you directly to certain reports.

We're Talking About It

We wanted to share our journey through this dashboard project, so we are maintaining a blog: UTFacts Online . The blog focuses on what's going on with the project--successes, frustrations, and next steps. What we truly want is to build a community that discusses the issues of data collection, analysis, and presentation. And how that data plays a part in policy decision-making.

It's also a forum to look at data more informally. For example, we've offered sneak peeks on enrollment and graduation rates data. We've looked briefly at some census data. Often the information will be more formally and fully analyzed and presented in official publications, but the blog allows us a place to get it out there more quickly and in smaller, more digestible pieces.

We also have a twitter feed . Come join the conversation!