THE VISION THE VISION: BRINGING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE TOGETHER AT BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE Using Data Meaningfully CREATED BY THE DATA TEAM

The Data Team Sonya Christian, President Zav Dadabhoy, Vice President of Student Affairs Heidi Gilliard, Institutional Research Analyst Michael McNellis, Department Chair, Philosophy Emmanuel Mourtzanos, Dean of Instruction Liz Rozell, Interim Dean of Instruction Patrick Serpa, Professor of Mathematics Sue Vaughn, Director of Admissions

The Data Team Long-term Goals Make data part of an ongoing cycle of institutional and instructional improvement tied to student success. Establish a clear vision for institutional and instructional data use. Foster a “culture of inquiry” and evidence-based culture at BC.

The Data Team Our Goals To develop efficient and effective institutional policies and processes to facilitate access to and analysis of appropriate data to help identify areas of improvement or success. To provide meaningful opportunities for data training, exploration, and analysis to increase data literacy on campus. To engineer methods for data management.

Your Role Qualifications To become effective and proficient data users To help coach colleagues & departments how to use data to improve student success See Data Coach description A passion for education and a love of data! Data Coaches/Ambassadors

Timeline of events Big Events: Data Summit No. 1., Oct 31, 2013 Data Summit No. 2., March 14, 2013 On-going Events: Monthly Meetings: TBA Important Dates: Last week of September: Preliminary Data Exercise September 30, 2013: Establish Data Ambassadors Team

YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FOLLOWING: THE VISION OF THE DATA TEAM YOUR RESEARCH INTERESTS DATA SUMMIT ACTIVITIES DATA TRAINING RECRUITMENT OF DATA AMBASSADORS POTENTIAL CHALLENGES AHEAD OTHER Discussion