Institutional Analysis Staff

Director -- Lou McClelland, Ph.D, social psychology, U of Michigan 1974; BA, psychology with math minor, U of Kansas 1969.

Began at CU-Boulder: August 1974, visiting professor in psychology.  RA and PI in IBS, 75-83. Started with PBA (then called Research and Testing): September 1983. Retiring as Director May 2013.

Responsibilities: General oversight, admissions and enrollment management, policy analyses, academic structure, collaboration with DHE/CCHE (Colorado Dept of Higher Ed, Colorado Commission on Higher Education) and CU system, performance indicators, primary CU-Boulder representative to AAUDE (Association of American Universities Data Exchange). AAUDE national chair, 2007-08.

Associate Director -- Robert Stubbs, MA, economics, CU-Boulder 1997.

Began at CU-Boulder: Fall 1994 in master's program in economics, while also working in Office of Planning and Institutional Research (which merged with PBA in April 1998). Started with PBA: April 1998.

Responsibilities: Technology and data infrastructure; oversee IA technical staff of four IR analysts; work with CU-system IRM (Information Resource Management) and other CU IR offices on data warehouse issues; work with Faculty Information System and other CU-Boulder sources.  Alternate representative to AAUDE.  Specialties: faculty salaries, employee data including affirmative action, audit system for CU-Boulder and AAUDE.

IR Analyst -- Glenn Colby, Ph.D. candidate, math/science education, Vanderbilt University (expected completion in 2012).

Began at CU-Boulder and started with PBA: February 2012

Responsibilities: Data infrastructure and files librarian, personnel and research data.

Senior Researcher -- Fran Costa, Ph.D., personality and social psychology, CU-Boulder 1983.

Began at CU-Boulder: 1978 as a research assistant in the Research Program on Problem Behavior, Institute of Behavioral Science. Started with PBA: January 2007.

Responsibilities: Survey research -- survey development, data collection, file preparation, data analysis and reporting; external reporting (including college guides) -- data analysis, data interpretation, reports, research and documentation.

FCQ Assistant -- Kristen Curry, BA, English, CU Boulder.

Began at CU Boulder and started with PBA: September 2012.

Responsibilities: FCQ department liaison, FCQ collection and distribution, FCQ student supervision.

IR Analyst - Fanchon Finucane, MHS, epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University 1985.

Began at CU-Boulder and started with PBA: August 2008.

Responsibilities: FCQ systems and data, course data, SAS, systems support, survey support.  

Researcher -- Cathy Kerry, MA, linguistics, CU-Boulder 1993.

Began at CU-Boulder: April 1981 as an administrative assistant in the Psychiatry department at Wardenburg Health Center.

Started with PBA: August 1990. Formally retired summer 2007. Working part-time.

Responsibilities: Survey research logistics--including survey design, response rates, open-ended comments processing; oversight of intra-office library system; and assistance with ad hoc survey projects.

IR Analyst -- Blake Redabaugh , BS, statistics, Colorado State University 2000.

Began at CU-Boulder and started with PBA: August 2000.

Responsibilities: General programming, regular student and course audits, files, and reporting; teacher education program support, graduate-level college guides, student athlete reporting, web site maintenance, NSSE longitudinal dataset for AAUDE.

FCQ coordinator -- Meg Rowland, BA, literature, UC Santa Barbara 1975; graduate work, biophysics, Harvard 1977; MA, English, CU-Boulder, 2009.

Began at CU-Boulder: March 1996 as a temp in applied math, permanent July 1996.

Started with PBA: August 1997 in the FCQ office. Formally retired February 2010. Working part-time.

Responsibilities: FCQ supervision and oversight.

Senior researcher -- Perry Sailor, Ph.D., research and evaluation methodology, Utah State U 1997.

Began at CU-Boulder and started with PBA: November 1998.

Responsibilities:  Admissions, financial aid, support of academic units, enrollment prediction committee, outcomes assessment, FCQ team, analysis methods.

Coordinator -- Annie Thayer, Ph.D., biomechanics/exercise science, U of Iowa 1990.

Began at CU-Boulder: Fall 1993 as consultant/office assistant in Kinesiology, then worked in Kinesiology as a post-doc on an NIH award from 1994-1996. Started with PBA: October 1999. Formally retired from IA Chief of Staff and Assistant Director, December 2008. Working part-time.

Responsibilities:  External reporting especially CU-System (diversity, performance contract), Higher Learning Commission (accrediting agency), and IPEDS; performance indicators; web management and design.