Conference Program
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Times listed in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
Length | Time | Type | Crystal Ballroom 1 | Crystal Ballroom 2 | Crystal Ballroom 3 | |
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Sunday, October 23 | ||||||
3 hrs | 8:30 – 11:30AM |
Workshop | An Introductory Workshop on Data Transformation, Statistics and Reporting with R
Sponsored by Academica Group, Elsevier, Plaid Analytics, and Qualtrics |
JEDI Data: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Sponsored by Academica Group, Elsevier, Plaid Analytics, and Qualtrics |
A Workshop for Newcomers
Sponsored by Academica Group, Elsevier, Plaid Analytics, and Qualtrics |
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90 min | 11:30 – 1:00 PM |
Lunch on own | ||||
3 hrs | 1:00 – 4:00 PM |
Workshop | ||||
4.5 hrs | 5:30 – 10:00 PM |
President’s Welcome Reception
Sponsored by Academica Group, Elsevier, Plaid Analytics, and Qualtrics |
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Monday, October 24 | ||||||
80 min | 7:00 – 8:20 AM |
Breakfast | ||||
1 hr | 8:00 – 9:00 AM |
CIRPA AGM & Announcements | ||||
1 hr | 9:00 – 10:00 AM |
Opening Keynote | How My Relationship with Institutional Research has Contributed to Informing Campus Decision-making and Planning During a Time of Significant Growth – Keynote – Ian Cull
Sponsored by Explorance |
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30 min | 10:00 – 10:30 AM |
Break
Sponsored by Lightcast |
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40 min | 10:30 – 11:10 AM |
Concurrent Session | Leading Through Change: From IR Analyst to Business Architect | Assigning NOC Codes to College Programs Using Machine Learning – OCAS | Early Identification for Academically At-Risk Students | |
40 min | 11:20 AM – 12:00 PM |
Concurrent Session | Accuracy & Relevance vs Clarity – A Discussion About Reporting – Explorance | Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Post-Secondary Students: A Systematic Review of Institutional Reports | DataOps in Higher Education | |
1 hr | 12:00 – 1:00 PM |
Lunch | ||||
40 min | 1:10 – 1:50 PM |
Concurrent Session | Power BI in the Engineering Research Office at the University of Waterloo | Disaggregating Health Survey and Clinical Appointment Data to Understand the Health Status of Students on Campus | The Power of Words: Using Student Feedback & Text Analytics for Advancing Qualitative Analysis in IR (virtual) | |
40 min | 2:00 – 2:40 PM |
Concurrent Session | Strengthening Enrolment With Market-Aligned Programs – Lightcast | Data, Metadata and Digital Transformation | Developing and Testing an Impacts Assessment Framework Using Descentralized and Unstandardized Data: The Case of Work-Integrated Learning Experiences in British Columbia (BC), Canada | |
30 min | 2:40 – 3:00 PM |
Break
Sponsored by CUSC |
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40 min | 3:00 – 3:40 PM |
Concurrent Session | Leveraging NLP (Natural Language Processing) to Process and Aggregate Institutional Surveys | How Recent Changes in Student Progression May Impact Future Enrolment and Academic Outcomes | Turning Data into Actions (+ discussion) | |
40 min | 3:50 – 4:30 PM |
Concurrent Session | Enrollment Planning with Power BI | Elsevier supporting Research Analytics – Use Cases – Elsevier | ||
90 min | 4:30 – 6:00 PM |
Free Time | ||||
5 hrs | 6:00 – 11:00 PM |
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Tuesday, October 25 | ||||||
80 min | 7:00 – 8:20 AM |
Breakfast & Announcements Outstanding Service Award |
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40 min | 8:30 – 9:10 AM |
Concurrent Session | Mining NSSE Data for Insights: Case Study from SFU | “We may not be big, but we’re small:” Optimizing the Small IR Office | Beyond Dashboards: How We Changed the Fabric of Decision Making (virtual) | |
40 min | 9:20 – 10:00 AM |
Concurrent Session | How to Calculate Program Economics – Gray Associates | Reengineering Report Processes on a Tight Technology Budget | The Past, Present, and Future of Enrolment Projections at Thompson Rivers University | |
30 min | 10:00 – 10:20 AM |
Break
Sponsored by OCAS |
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40 min | 10:20 – 11:00 AM |
Concurrent Session | The Impact of Non-Responses on Survey Data Quality | Making Your Survey Analysis Less Full of S*** (SPSS, Stata, SAS, or any software package beginning with S): An Interdisciplinary Journey | Strategic Analytics to Maximize Revenue and Increase Diversity at Rio Hondo College – Plaid | |
40 min | 11:10 – 11:50 AM |
Concurrent Session | Tableau and Oracle and R, oh my! A Deep Dive into Enrolment Projections at Thompson Rivers University | Student pathways into Ontario College’s Bachelor Degrees: Patterns of Mobility, Student Characteristics, Academic and Labour Market Outcomes | Listen, Understand and Act: Mobilize Your Survey Data to Meet Real Time Needs – Qualtrics | |
1 hr | 12:00 – 1:00 PM |
Lunch Announcement of 2023 Conference |
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1 hr | 1:00 – 2:00 PM |
Keynote | Beyond the Numbers: Visually Thinking with Data – Keynote – Lyn Bartram
Sponsored by Gray Associates |
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40 min | 2:10 – 2:50 PM |
Concurrent Session | Working Together for Progress: Collaboration and Benchmarking in Atlantic Canada | An Update on the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey | Building a Culture of Data Literacy to Support Continuous Improvement (virtual) | |
70 min | 2:50 – 4:00 PM |
Ice Cream Social
Sponsored by PRA, DPM, and HESA |
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90 min | 3:30 – 5:00 PM |
Mentorship Program | Mentorship Networking |