1. Student Affairs Constituent Group
David Sweeney – Texas A&M University

2. Hot Topics This Year
Big Data a la Student Affairs
Common Good Services
Title IX DCL
Business Relationship Management

3. Big Data a la Student Affairs
HE is focusing on Big Data to assess factors that increase recruitment, retention, 4-year graduation, etc.
Companies like Civitas promise to facilitate data-crunching, but they want everything
How can Student Affairs data complete the picture?
Are we at the table?
Questions:
How many of you have institutional-level data analytics initiatives going on?
How many of you have been asked (or have volunteered) to integrate SA data into the effort?
Factors of Interest:
On-Campus Housing
Organizational Engagement
Discipline
Recreation
Orientation
Learning Communities

4. Three Analytical Models
Descriptive Analytics
Predictive Analytics
Prescriptive Analytics
Triggers
Association
Assessment
Daniel, B. (2015). Big data and analytics in higher education: Opportunities and challenges. British Journal of Educational Technology. 46(5).

5. Common Good Services Movement of common good services to;
Central IT (insourcing)
External Vendors (outsourcing)
Cloud Services
For those SA IT orgs that have infrastructure, what is our value proposition?
What place does Domain Specific Knowledge play in our value proposition?
Questions:
How many of you have Central IT orgs that run ALL of your infrastructure and networking?
How many have 100% centralized IT Service Desk?
How many of your believe that our domain specific knowledge provides value to our supported areas?

6. Title IX Dear Colleague Letter (2015)
Designation of a Title IX Coordinator
Visibility
Training and Reporting
Questions
-Has your institution addressed requirements of the new DCL?
-How many of you have technology mediated reporting systems?
-How many of your are training the campus community with online systems?

7. Business Relationship Management
Providing expertise, analysis, and facilitation to supported units
Building the Relationship
Increasing Alignment with Business Strategy
Order Taker -> Advisor -> Collaborator

8. Congruence of Factors Creating Opportunity
Value Proposition
Business Relationship
Focus on Analytics
Domain Specific Knowledge
Shift to Common Good

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