Who can help?

The Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness was restructured in the fall of 2012.

Staff contacts and responsibilities are listed below. For full staff bios, click here.

Donna Bourgeois, Director of Institutional Effectiveness, serves on the University Courses & Curriculum Committee, the Associate Deans Council, and the Ad Hoc Committee on the Summer Session. In addition, you may contact Donna for information on:

  • Common Data Sets
  • External surveys & reports (including U.S. News & World Report / College Board / etc.)
  • Faculty database
  • Faculty salary survey
  • Graduating Student Survey
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Official Stats
  • University Fact Book

Cindy Caire, Director of Institutional Research, serves as the university's official SACS liaison, and is a member of the Standing Committee for Academic Planning, the Strategic Planning Team, the University Budget Committee, and the Retention & Student Success Taskforce. In addition, you may contact Cindy for information on:

  • Course evaluations
  • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
  • Predictive modeling
  • Program support pages
  • Programming logic
  • Student course credit hour reports

Heather Mack, Director of Community Engagement Research and Assessment, may be contacted for information on:

  • Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
  • Community-based Federal Work Study
  • Community engagement inventory
  • Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE)
  • President's Higher Ed Community Service Honor Roll
  • National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

Brad Petitfils, Ph.D., Director of Campus Planning & Assessment, serves as chair of the university's Assessment Support Team, is an elected member of the Administrative Senate and serves on the Center for Faculty Innovation Advisory Board. In addition, you may contact Brad for information on:

  • Adult Student Priorities Survey (ASPS)
  • Annual reports
  • ETS exams
  • Faculty & staff development
  • Institutional Priorities Survey (IPS)
  • SACS reporting
  • Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI)