University at Buffalo Office of Institutional Analysis (OIA)

The Office of Institutional Analysis (OIA) has the primary institutional responsibility for the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative information on the institution, its students, its faculty, its programs, its publics, its practice s faculty, its programs, its publics, its practices and its services. The office provides analytic support for the planning, evaluation and policy initiatives of the Provost and senior leadership and acts as the institution's reporting agent. Functionally, the office is comprised of three interconnected groups, each working in concert to transform raw data into actionable information capable of driving campus reporting and the policy discussion forward. A brief summary of responsibilities specific to each group is as follows: Official University Reporting Providing the foundation to support official reporting, institutional analytics, and accreditation. Entity/Hierarchy HUB Academic Structure Official SUNY Data Tuition Revenue Processing Tableau Management Data Cookbook Annual Survey Responses Functional Consultation Ad-Hoc Data Requests "". Institutional Analytics The UB Institutional Analytics team produces and supplies actionable intelligence, delivered via interactive visualization tools that generate insights used to make more data-informed and proactive decisions across the campus. Enrollment Management Dashboards Enrollment Projections Enrollment Modeling "". Policy Analysis and Accreditation Developing contextual analytics and statistics to power UB's senior policy discussion. Survey Design, Admin, and Analysis Accreditation Support Policy Analysis Institutional Research Executive Support The UB Institutional Analytics team produces and supplies actionable intelligence, delivered via interactive visualization tools that generate insights used to make more data-informed and proactive decisions across the campus. The Institutional Analytics team draws upon UB's extensive transactional data source collection and collaborates with our OIA colleagues to transform these raw sources into custom analytics to drive our Tableau visualizations. Through these efforts, the campus policy community along with operational front line staff in the academic units have immediate access to a custom toolset of visualizations available via the web from OIA's Tableau server. These visualizations present actionable intelligence that enables the user to explore the dynamics of a given campus condition and identify proactive measures to secure desired outcomes. Developing contextual analytics and statistics to power UB's senior policy discussion. Our team within the Office of Institutional Analysis assists in developing contextual information and other analyses for senior leadership at the University at Buffalo. Project areas include: Survey design, administration, analyses and visualizations Survey reporting (national, state, and system-wide) Institutional and programmatic accreditation documentation, data collection, reporting, and review Policy analysis and decision support using advanced analytics: recent projects include faculty salary comparisons, merit scholarship analysis, enrollment forecasting and prediction, tuition scholarship modeling, critical pathway course analysis, financial aid reporting, tuition comparisons, and retention prediction and analysis. National Student Clearinghouse liaison for the university. We create and submit various student files to provide information about enrollments, degrees, and markets. ...view more