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CIRPA Conference Program

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Length Time Type Concurrent Session 1 Concurrent Session 2 Concurrent Session 3 Concurrent Session 4
Friday, October 15
90 min

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 President’s Reception
Tuesday, October 19
85 min

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 Welcome and Opening Keynote The Power of storytelling: How we all can help our communities know and care more about security and privacy – David Shipley, Beauceron Security
25 min

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 Yoga Breathwork;
35 min

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 Concurrent Session Enrolment Capacity: Know Your Limits – Mark Kane, Conestoga College, Connie Phelps, Conestoga College Luck, talent or both: What does it take to win the Best Presentation Award at CIRPA? – Ashley Blackman, FV Analytics, Neil Chakraborty, University of Toronto Understanding & analyzing your institution’s contributions to the UN SDGs – Kyle Demes, Elsevier
25 min

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 Break – Schleopardy: games by Ashley
35 min

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 Concurrent Session After the Pandemic – Finding the Best New Normal For Your Institution – Suzanne Drapeau, Higher Education Sector Advisor, Barrington Consulting Data Sovereignty, First Nations Data Governance, and OCAP: Implications for Institutional Researchers – Drew Pihlainen, First Nations Data Centre at the First Nations Information Governance Centre From text analytics to comment analysis: how AI transforms your qualitative data strategy – Steve Lange, Explorance
25 min

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 Roundtable Discussion Demographic Data Collection Work Integrated Learning Early Alert
Wednesday, October 20
1 hour

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 CIRPA-ACPRI AGM
25 min

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 Chair Strong & Stretch;
35 min

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 Concurrent Session Benchmarking Institutional Performance with publicly available standardized data – Dr. Esam Sohail Mohammad, Butler Community College, El Dorado, Kansas Transitioning a whole university to a new LMS in two months using an agile approach – Diane Grayson, University of the Witwatersrand Increasing agility in program development – Dorian Clark, Emsi
25 min

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 Break – Schleopardy: games by Ashley
35 min

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 Concurrent Session Predicting College to college transfer in Ontario, a multivariate, multi-cohort study – Roger Pizarro Milian, Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT)
Melissa Fritz, OCAS, Michelle Dunlop, OCAS		 Automate the Boring Stuff: Labour Market Report Generation using R – Fraser Hay, Conestoga College Some Tips and Best Practices on Writing Great Business Glossary Definitions – Brian Parish, iData
45 min

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 Roundtable Discussion Data Governance Labour Market Outcomes Enrolment Modelling
Thursday, October 21
35 min

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 Concurrent Session Rethinking student evaluations of Teaching from the student perspective – Stephanie McKeown, University of British Columbia COVID-19 Campus Resumption Planning Dashboard – Brent Harris, UBC Okanagan, Corey Bond, UBC Okanagan Psychographic segmentation: Know your students – Kirk Kelly, CRI Virtual Wizardry: Creating and widening your expertise network through Virtual Speed Networking – Victoria E. Díaz, University of Ottawa, Emma Stetson
25 min

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 Office Yoga;
35 min

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 Concurrent Session A collaborative approach to understanding enrolment patterns: The Student Flows Project – Craig Thompson, University of British Columbia, Annay Slabikowska, University of British Columbia First (Freshmen) year At-Risk: the York University-Toronto District School Board Cohort Study – Robert S.Brown, York University, Faculty of Education, Gillian Parekh, York University, Faculty of Education Alumni Economic Impact: Calculating and Mapping Educated Workforce Premium using FME and Tableau – Andrew Drinkwater, Pat Lougheed & Clara Yueng, Plaid Evolving Definitions in Digital Learning: Moving Toward a Shared Understanding of Common Terms – Nicole Johnson, Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA)
20 min

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 Break – Schleopardy: games by Ashley
75 min

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 Closing Keynote & Final Announcements From Data to Insights: Evidence Based Decision Making – Anthony Mantione, the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC)