AJCU Planning Conference, October 17-19, 2010

AJCU Planning Conference, October 17-19, 2010

Programas of September 13

Sunday opening plenary: Forecasting and Budgeting in an Era of Uncertainty

Do Count Your Chickens: Forecasting Instructional Costs Based on Your Curriculum

Jennifer A. Lee,Fordham University

Using Business Intelligence to Support Long-term Planning

Salvador Aceves, University of San Francisco

Integrating Academic Program Review with Planning and Budgeting

Margaret Kasimatis, Loyola Marymount University

Monday morning plenary: Planning and Data Management

Leveraging the Data Warehouse to Promote Strategic Planning

Kelli Armstrong and Jessica Greene, Boston College

A Comprehensive Communications Strategy to Engage and Inform the Campus Community of Long-term Planning

Salvador Aceves, University of San Francisco

Successful Planning Processes

Institutional Strategic Planning: Kate Yerkes, University of Scranton

Academic Strategic Planning: Nick Santilli, John Carroll University (TENTATIVE)

Guest speaker, introduced by Billy Weitzer, Fairfield University

Measuring Quality: What, Why and for Whom?

Victor M. H. Borden, Indiana University

Monday afternoon plenary

Assessing the Assessment: A methodology to facilitate university-wide reporting

Terra Schehr, Loyola University Maryland

Responses to the HEOA legislation, panel moderated by Kate Yerkes

Kate Yerkes and Valerie Taylor, University of Scranton

Ginny Bender, Saint Peter’s College

Annemarie Bartlett, Saint Joseph’s University

Jessica Greene, Boston College

Monday afternoon concurrent sessions (2)

Identifying Dimensions Underlying “Peer Institutions” Using Multidimensional Scaling

Suzanne Dancer, Santa Clara University

AHomegrown Assessment Management System

Pat Mizak, Canisius College

Establishing and Measuring Global Mission and Identity Learning Outcomes at Marquette: Some Preliminary Yet Intriguing Findings

Gary Levy, Marquette University

JesuitNET’s Assessment-based Course Development Model [or other JesuitNET-oriented topic]

Dick Vigilante, Jesuit Distance Education Network

Roundtable on Technology in Support of Planning, Institutional Research, and Assessment

Digital Measures for faculty activity reporting (Marquette)

Online course evaluations (Marquette)

Rapid Insight for data integration and analytics (Fairfield)

Key Survey for online surveys and easy reports (Fairfield)

Other: Business intelligence products, data warehouse/ data mart, … ???

Tuesday morning plenary

Dashboards and Other Performance Indicators, panel moderated by Ann Stehney

Pat Mizak, Canisius College

TBA

Ann Stehney, Fairfield University

Accreditation, panel moderated by Billy Weitzer

Ginny Bender,Saint Peter’s College (Middle States)

Margaret Kasimatis, Loyola Marymount University (WASC)

TBA (North Central?)

Billy Weitzer, Fairfield University (NEASC)

Group discussion, plans for next AJCU Planning Conference, closing remarks

Conversations may continue over lunch