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Institutional Analysis Staff

Photo - March, 2009

Director -- Lou McClelland, Ph.D., social psychology, U of Michigan 1974

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

Responsibilities: General oversight, admissions and enrollment management, policy analyses, student data files for DHE/CCHE (Colorado Dept of Higher Ed, Colorado Commission on Higher Education) and CU system, performance indicators, academic programs, representation to DHE/CCHE, SAS, AAUDE (Association of American Universities Data Exchange). AAUDE national chair, 2007-08.

Assistant Director for Survey Research -- position open as of July 27, 2011; formerly held by Jeff Schiel (see below); any communication about CU-Boulder should be directed to IR@colorado.edu or 303-492-8631.

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Responsibilities: Survey research lead: Consultation, design, sampling, staff supervision, analysis, reporting. Course-related files and analyses. "Grand map" linking majors, course subjects, departments, employees, and expenditures. Also conversion of the FCQ system.

Assistant Director for Technology/Infrastructure -- 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: Faculty salaries, employee data including affirmative action, Central Information Warehouse, web sleuthing, space use, general programming, standard enrollment files, NRC, AAUDE warehouse, LAN support, financial reporting, peer analyses.

Researcher -- Frances 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.

 

Senior Analyst - FCQ, SAS, Systems support -- Fanchon Finucane, MHS, epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University 1985.

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

Responsibilities: Management of SAS and FCQ data and web-based applications.

FCQ Assistant, IA Assistant -- Kim Kelley, Fine Art and Art History studies, Arizona State University and CU Boulder.

Began at CU-Boulder: 2001 as a temp in Arch & Planning, became full-time/permanent in 2002 as PhD program assistant and UG program assistant. In 2007 moved to MCDB as admin assistant in graduate program and department assistant.

Started with PBA: February 2010.

Responsibilities: FCQ department liaison, FCQ collection and distribution, FCQ student supervision and IA form and calendar tracking.

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.

Alumni/retiree; Formerly Senior data and systems analyst -- Gary Pfeifer, BA, French, CU-Boulder 1976.

Began at CU-Boulder: Fall 1971 as a freshman in Engineering Physics, changed to regular Physics, went to France for junior-year abroad, and ended up a French major.
Started in PBA (then Research and Testing): April 1989.  Formally retired March 2009.

Former Responsibilities: SAS, web, mainframe operations, Faculty Course Questionnaire systems, FCQ team, web data collection, reading live SIS, standard enrollment and course files.

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

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

Responsibilities: General programming, teacher education program support, course-related reporting, 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: Currently doing FCQ supervision and oversight. Previously did FCQ collection and distribution; survey collection; FCQ team; liaison to departments; editor.

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: Outcomes assessment, student ratings of instruction, admissions, financial aid, enrollment prediction committee, 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 December 2008. Working part-time.

Responsibilities: Former Chief of Staff and Assistant Director, Institutional Analysis Operations; college guides; performance indicators; web management and design; file and task organization; linking information to University organizational units; coordinates external requests; IPEDS; academic programs. Continuing part-time in an IA support role on many of these tasks.

Former Assistant Director for Survey Research -- Jeff Schiel, Ph.D., educational psychology, emphasis in statistics and measurement, U of Northern Colorado 1988.

Began at CU-Boulder and started in PBA: August 2002; left July 2011 to return to ACT, Iowa City, IA.

Former Responsibilities: Survey research lead: Consultation, design, sampling, staff supervision, analysis, reporting. Course-related files and analyses. "Grand map" linking majors, course subjects, departments, employees, and expenditures. Also conversion of the FCQ system.

Last revision 07/26/11