CAIR 2012 Conference: Papers and Presentations

Keynote Addresses

• Carlos E Cortés
  Qualitative Diversity Assessment: Musing of a Metacognitive Multiculturalist
• Jill Ferguson
  WASC Senior Accreditation Redesign: Where Things Stand Now and Where They’re Going
• Barbara Beno
  ACCJC Accreditation Redesign: Where Things Stand Now and Where They’re Going
• Randy Swing
  Defining IR: Strategies for Bringing Data to the Decision-Making Process
• Patrick Perry, Phil Garcia, Chris Furgiuele, Keric Ashley
  CPEC Redux – an Update on the California K-20 data warehouse
• Charles Kennedy
  Sticky & Sneezy: The Two Most Important Dwarfs for Spreading Ideas

Conference Workshops

• The RP Group
  Assessing Transcript-Based Placement
• Sam Agronow, Cel Johnson, Heather Brown
  The WASC Undergraduate Templates & An Update on the Graduate Templates
• Kristina Cragg
  IPEDS Data as the Public Face of an Institution
• Jerry Wong
  Strategies for Searching US Census Data
• Andre Eppig
  Design Principles for Data Presentation: Translating Data Analysis into Data Visualization
• Robert Pacheco
  Quality Assurance: The Emerging Role of Research in the ACCJC Standards
• Dai Li
  An Introduction to the National Data Institute
• Bryce Mason, Ryan Johnson
  Stata
• Veronica Chukwuemeka, Sathyan Sundaram
  The Student Leaning Progress Model (SLPM)
• Terri Cannon
  Regional Accreditation for the 21st Century: Changes and Challenges

Member Presentations

• John Stanley (CAIR 2012 Best Presentation Award) 
  Classification of Peer Groups from Cluster Analysis Using IPEDS Data
• Tongshan Chang, Xiaohui Zheng, Yang Yang, Sereeta Alexendar, Anna Sher, Gina Johnson, William Armstrong
  How to Improve Student Survey Response Rates: Contributing Factors and Marketing Strategies
• Ryan Fuller, Alice van Ommeren
  New Indices, Predictors and Peer Groups for the California Community Colleges
• Nelle Moffett
  Integrating “State-side” and “Self-support” Data
• Serge Herzog, John Stanley
  Using Predictive Analytics to Improve the Bottom Line
• Matthew Reed, Diane Cheng
  What Will College Cost? Net Price Calculators, Pledges, and Award Letters
• Anna Sher
  IR’s Role in Developing Recommendations for Improvement Based on Survey and/or Institutional Data
• Sunny Moon, James Hershey, Afshin Karimi, Ed Sullivan
  Learning Community as an Educational Intervention to Close the Gap in Retentions Rates and GPA between First-Time Full-Time URM & Non-URM Students
• Steven Spurling
  Modeling Educational Achievement
• Junchao Zhang, Min Chen
  The Role and Characteristics of Institutional Research in China
• Marisol Arredondo, Robert Pankey, Mike Pelly, Joseph M. Slowensky
  Preparing the new WASC Graduation and Retention Rate Templates & Essays: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Institution
• Andrew Eppig, Liz Halimah
  From Data Warehouse to Data Dashboards: Creating Diversity Data Dashboard at UC Berkeley
• Dmitry Suspitsyn
  Actual versus Predicted Institutional Graduation Rates at California’s Four-Year Institutions
• Wendy McEwen, Ed Wingenbach
  Meeting WASC’s Requirements for Non Traditional Undergraduate Retention & Degree Completion
• Edward Pai, Phillip Briggs, John Freitas, Dan Walden
  Using Data to Drive Planning and Resource Allocation: An Outcomes-based Framework for Program Review
• Andrew Eppig, Sereeta Alexander
  Assessing Undergraduate Campus Climate Trends at UC Berkeley
• Terrence Willett, Kathy Booth
  What’s Completion Got to Do with It?
• Yang Zhang
  Factors that Influence College Students’ Time to Graduation
• Cathy Alexander, Angela Naginey, Nathan Fall, Rodney A. Reynolds
  The Effects of Student Housing on Student Success
• Ward Headstorm, John Filce
  Generating Collections of Data on the Web with Built-in Navigation
• Melinda Wright, Karissa Oien
  Going Mobile! The Effects of Mobile Devices on Online Course Evaluations
• Chris Furgiuile, Gillian Butler
  Quarterly Wage Data in the Hands of Higher Ed – Blessing or Curse?
• Patrick Perry, Alice van Ommeren, Ryan Fuller
  The New Accountability Reporting for the California Community Colleges (ARCC)
• Jing Wang
  Peak Time and Class Level of Withdrawals – A New Perspective for Attrition Study
• Yang Zhang, John Stanley
  Low Success Rate Course Analysis – A.K.A. Killer Course
• Gary Lowe, Gina Johnson
  HEOA Disclosure: How One Institution is Reporting Graduate and Professional Education and Job Placement Rates
• Jonathan P. Shiveley, Nancy Hardy
  Tracking the Progress of Students on Probation
• Kelly Wahl
  Students vs. Respondents: How do Course-taking Patterns Influence Survey Response Rates for Key Campus Subpopulations
• Gay Hylton
  Campus Quality Survey (formerly known as SNAPS)
• Patrick Rossol-Allison, Jeffrey A. Seybert
  Benchmarking in Community Colleges: an Essential Tool for Assessment, Improvement, and Accountability
• Ludmila Praslova, John Kim, Amanda Lebrecht
  Triangulation of Data in Student Retention Research
• Dmitri Rogulkin, Xuanning Fu
  Analysis of Factors Associated with At Risk Status Among 4th Year Students
• Kristina Cragg, Rebecca Wood
  Getting to Know Your Students through National Benchmarking Resources
• John H. Pryor
  Managing Survey Data for Institutional Improvement: Accessible, Manageable and Meaningful
• Xi Zhang, Jesse Garber, Bonnie Peters, Salvador Flor
  Titel V grant: Strategies and Assessment
• Amanda Saw, Alan Olschwang
  Student Success in Graduate School: Examining Institutional Effectiveness Practices
• Willard Hom
  An Exploratory Analysis of Community College SB70 Students
• Robert Cox
  Profiles, Projections and Stress Tests: Pathways to Institutional Effectiveness
• Dai Li
  Using PowerStats to Investigate Persistence Beyond the First Year
• Eric Lin, Shelia Lewis
  Institutional Research from a For-Profit Perspective