1. Using Banner Data to Support Strategic Initiatives for Student Success
La Salle University
Philadelphia, PA
Vic De Couto
Director of BI & IR, Academic Affairs
Lynne Wagner
Associate Registrar for Academic Information Services, Enrollment Services
Lynne (main). Let’s Vic introduce himself

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3. La Salle University
Philadelphia, PA Established 1863, became coeducational in 1970, achieved University status in UG Enrollment: 4,000; Graduate/Doctoral Enrollment: 1,300
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4. Outline of Presentation
How can we utilize institutional data to support strategic initiatives – specifically retention?
Organization and Challenges
Utilizing Banner and making others aware of the importance of data stored in a central location
Utilizing official reporting tool – Argos – to push out data in support of initiatives
Examples of Data output in dynamic reports
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5. Banner Tables SGRSATT - Student Attributes
SGRSACT – Student Activities/Organizations
SHREVNT (SHATCMT – Transcript Events and Comments)
SORTEST – Test Codes
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6. Organization: Modules, Divisions and Data Reporting
Banner Modules – Student, Financial Aid, Finance, HR, etc.
Divisions across campus – Enrollment Services, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Finance, Advancement, etc.
No centralized reporting department
Analysts and data report writers exist within different areas on campus
Reporting methodology varies
Understanding the benefit of centralized data varies
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7. Major Concerns and Needs at La Salle University
Interdepartmental lapse in communication
Defining and Enforcing Data Governance
Understanding institutional data better for strategic purposes and student success
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8. Strategic Initiative: Retention
New opportunity:
Highlight importance of Banner data
Highlight the need to understand importance of centralized data collection
Using Banner data to support initiative
Previous Committee (2010): come up with ideas and proposal of where the university should go moving forward
Current Committee ( ): data supported, actionable items to help students succeed and persist
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9. Strategic Initiative: Retention
Predict retention probability for each student and store information centrally
Clean data in Banner for datasets for analysis and to measure the success of initiatives
Support a university-wide initiative that relies on data
Able to utilize university reporting tool (Argos) to push out information to stakeholders
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10. Student Engagement
Data analysis confirms that student engagement is significant for persistence.
Prior to 2012 – Greek Life (SGRSACT) and NCAA Athletics (SGRSPRT) only
Student Affairs staff member requested collection of activities data
Worked with Student Module and Advancement Module
Data collected each semester
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11. Student Engagement
Staff member left – while data continued to be collected, little was done with the data
Unaware of process – Student Affairs buys Presence software to track student engagement and activity
Nothing wrong with software but no discussion on how data would come back to Banner
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13. Match Banner table with Presence Data
SGRSACT
SHREVNT
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14. Student Engagement
Right now – csv extract, update, then inserted into SGRSACT and SHREVNT
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15. With accurate student engagement information – we can produce dashboards that show retention information on students who are involved on campus.
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21. Moving forward
With data available, able to move quickly to track and help identify students with needs
Slowly hoping to change culture at La Salle to understand importance of centralized data
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22. Open to the Floor
Questions
Comments

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