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