Teams and Functions

The Office of Analytics, Institutional Research, & Effectiveness is divided into seven teams led by Corinne Bannon, the Vice Provost of AIRE and KU's Chief Data Officer. A summary of the core functions of each team is below. Click 'Team and Details' for more information about their work and people. 

Vice Provost

Data Quality and Governance

• Develops and manages data governance policies, standards, and procedures.
• Creates and delivers campus data literacy program.
• Develops and maintains a data dictionary.
• Develops processes and documentation to monitor and resolve any data quality issues.
• Convenes and facilitates executive data council, data stewards and data user groups.
• Maps existing data architecture to give clarity to the scope of data to be governed​.

Data Management

• Develops data architecture to map data flows.
• Manages the Data Warehouse and other data repositories.
• Data mapping and modeling to create diagrams of data structures and associated business rules.
• Manages data ingestion from ERPs and other source systems.
• Data Integration using ELT and ETL processes to consolidate different data sets.
• Application Health Check and Monitoring​.
• Access set up and monitoring across all the applications and databases managed by AIRE.
• Data quality management to identify and fix issues in data sets.
• Executes census snapshots of student and HR data.

Data Analytics

• Provides subject matter expertise for HR, finance, research, student data.
• Gathers business requirements for data modelling and dashboard development in OAC and Visual Analytics.
• Develops and maintains self-service enterprise dashboards for campus partners.
• Carries out large and small institutional studies.
• Advances data and tool literacy.
• Develops and maintains Strategic Alignment Briefing Books.
• Academic Analytics Benchmarking data support.

Official Reporting

• Maintains the institution's official statistics.
• Provides Census Snapshot Requirements and QA.
• Develops and maintains the KU Fact Book, Common Data Set and informational items on the AIRE website.
• Prepares and submits data for ranking surveys.
• Provides data for KORA requests.
• Provides benchmarking reports and analysis.
• Prepares and submits data for mandated State & Federal reports including IPEDs, NSF, HERD, KBOR.
• Prepares data submissions for Faculty Insight and Academic Analytics.
• Prepares AAU Data Exchange Submissions.

Surveys & Assessment

• Qualtrics administration.
• Creates and manages university survey committee.
• Manages survey calendar.
• Manages 5-year Dean/VP performance review survey.
• Faculty Insight subject matter experts and tool development.
• Enters new faculty CVs/resumes into the Faculty Insight.
• Student Surveys of Teaching management and reporting.
• Contract administration for Campus Constituent Surveys.
• Data analysis for Campus Constituent Surveys.

Strategic Initiatives

• Supports the Provost and CDO on the management of the structure and  high-level processes of the Lawrence campus strategic plan, Jayhawks Rising.​
• Facilitates the planning and execution of the leaderships' annual unit level strategic planning presentations.​
• Manages the Campus Constituent Surveys lifecycle, an assessment component of Jayhawks Rising.​
• Facilitates the Service Strategic Alignment Review process, an assessment component of Jayhawks Rising.
• Provides campus administration for Academic Analytics.​
• Provides process-based management for key strategic initiatives​ within AIRE. 

Communications

• Designs and executes communications plan for AIRE, including internal, campus communications.
• Designs and executes communications plan for Jayhawks Rising.
• Designs and executes strategic communication strategies for Campus Constituent Surveys.
• Develops and maintains AIRE website.
• Communications support for Academic Analytics, SSTs,  and Strategic Alignment Briefing Books.
• Represents VP of AIRE in forums and meetings, supports AIRE strategic planning and employee initiatives.