Students of data, data serving students
CIRPA-ACPRI invites you to submit a proposal to present at our upcoming conference, October 20-23, 2024 – Students of data, data serving students. Institutional research inspires a culture of student success through data empowerment. This year’s conference focuses on how data can be used to help students achieve.
The conference will be in person, with activities hosted at the Fredericton Convention Centre, located in the historic heart of downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick.
We welcome all submissions relevant to this year’s theme, including proposals from Institutional research and planning professionals. This includes colleagues at provincial, regional, and federal agencies, other associations and organizations, and individual scholars with research interests in postsecondary education issues.
The submission guidelines and review criteria can be found here. Please complete all proposals using the template provided here.
Submissions are encouraged to align with the conference theme and one or more of the topic areas below and should include realized or potential outcomes (i.e. how research has affected or will affect change):
Action Enablers – This stream covers how an institution or IR team has transformed data to be used broadly to facilitate student success. Emphasis should be placed on the data transformation process and how the resulting information was put into decision-makers hands. Presenters are encouraged to share experiences in leveraging data from diverse sources to create unique insights.
From Start to Finish – Strategic enrolment management (SEM) is a core to institutional stability. How do we determine how many students we can accommodate? What resources are needed to deliver quality educational experiences? How do we incorporate both qualitative and quantitative aspects? What data-based practices has your institution implemented to maximize graduation rates, reduce attrition and facilitate student engagement? This is an opportunity to present and discuss methods and models for success. How do we map the entire student journey from student surveys to modelling in R?
Eliminating Silos – Often, institutional silos can create barriers to actioning data in service of student success. This stream discusses how data and information have been used at our member institutions to unite various departments (Recruitment, Registrars, Student Service, Institutional Research, etc.) in service of student success. Further topics to consider are partnerships between postsecondary institutions to track student outcomes.
Forecasting Success – In this track, we ask questions such as: how early is early intervention? We will discuss data-based actions to provide support to students. What data is needed to enable success? Models used to forecast retention, graduation and overall positive student outcomes. Presenters are encouraged to demonstrate how they incorporated data from sources such as student surveys into their forecasting activities.
The deadline to submit a proposal(s) is May 10, 2024. Submit your proposal via email to the Programming Committee vicepresident@cirpa-acpri.ca.
We hope you will join us for the CIRPA-ACPRI conference this October!
Sincerely,
Stephen Blair Dove
2024 Program Chair
University of New Brunswick
Emily Clyde-Parry Yaroszko
2024 Local Arrangements Co-Chair
University of Manitoba
David Kilfoil
2024 Local Arrangements Co-Chair
University of New Brunswick