MIRO Symposium

Mānoa Institutional Research Office
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Mānoa Institutional Research Office (MIRO) offers a series of virtual symposiums to more deeply engage audiences, both inside and outside of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, in interactive data tool usage and key initiatives to empower higher-education decision makers with reliable and easy-to-access data.

Episodes

  1. 10/20/2022

    Symposium Finale: Develop a Highly Efficient IR Office and Office Reunion

    In our final symposium session, we will wrap up the series by looking back on the past 10 years of how we built a comprehensive and efficient IR office with limited resources and a small team. We will talk about bottleneck issues we faced and how we overcame them by taking creative and proactive approaches. We will also discuss some key decisions we made such as why we did not use Tableau and chose to create our own data visualization tools. We will share the skills and tools we found helpful to improve efficiency and how our staff members–each with their own unique skill sets–work seamlessly together. The symposium Finale ends with a video reunion with MIRO's former colleagues to celebrate the past 10 years developing the MIRO office together.

    59 min

  2. 08/29/2022

    Data Communication Strategies

    Collecting, organizing, and standardizing data is like digging up a gold mine on a remote island. Although IR can collect as much gold as they want, it can easily go to waste if there’s not an efficient means of delivering the information. In this symposium, MIRO will share the strategies they have used to communicate data effectively with different audiences, the user experience principles behind such strategies, and how those efforts help to advance MIRO’s office mission. We are also honored to have the Co-Director of Hawai’i Data Science Institute, Jason Leigh, as our guest speaker and share the advancing ideas and technology in data science.

    1h 19m

  3. 06/20/2022

    Qualitative Data and Analysis in Institutional Research

    Qualitative data is incredibly valuable for faculty, staff, and administrators because it helps them gain a better understanding of student experiences and shows them some of the most difficult and dynamic university problems from a student’s perspective. These researchers will also share their experiences of how they find the time and resources to do qualitative research, especially when the work could be time-consuming and tedious. The Mānoa Institutional Research Office (MIRO) will also demonstrate interactive web application tools they developed that are proven to be effective and efficient in accessing, organizing, and disseminating qualitative data.

    1h 38m

  4. 06/20/2022

    Student Success Measures

    Although how to define and measure student success might be different for institutions that have different missions and serve different student populations, there are some commonly accepted student success measures and similar data challenges to track student success among higher education institutions. In this session, our guest speakers will share some recent scholarly research about student success and discuss how to use NSSE data to improve student success. The MIRO team will demonstrate how they include key student success measures in their homegrown decision support system, and make student success measures such as retention rates, graduation rates, time to completion, academic performance, NSSE results, and student experience data easy to access and digest for campus decision makers.

    1h 37m

  5. 06/20/2022

    Common Data Set and External Surveys

    Partnering with the founders and advisory board members of the Common Data Set (CDS) Initiative, join us as the Mānoa Institutional Research Office discusses data compilation, usage, and reporting for external surveys. To increase efficiency and lower the risk of human errors for all offices involved, the Mānoa Institutional Research Office (MIRO) created a series of automated processes for external survey data collection and reporting, minimizing the reporting burden and improving data accuracy and consistency.

    1h 19m

  6. 06/20/2022

    Data Support for University Accreditation

    In this virtual symposium, the MIRO team will discuss how they have built a robust data infrastructure that aims to make data more accessible, transparent, and consistent for both internal and external users; as well as share how this system effectively helps the University respond to accreditation standards while providing timely data support for the University’s accreditation preparation.

    55 min

  7. 06/20/2022

    Data Support for Academic Program Review

    Supporting Program Reviews is a major responsibility for institutional research. Knowing how to provide comprehensive datasets to address the many needs of Program Review and how to help faculty use data for improvements remains a challenge. In this session, institutional researchers and academic program officers from three institutions and a community college system office will share their approaches and practices in supporting academic Program Review. They will discuss the challenges faced at their institutions, their approaches to implementing change, and what they have learned along the way. Presenters will also demonstrate the data tools and systems they built to provide timely and accessible Program Review data.

    1h 41m

  8. 06/20/2022

    What Data Can Tell Us About Transfer Students

    In 2020, transfer students comprise about 40% of UHM’s degree-seeking undergraduate student population and receive over half of the undergraduate degrees. It is essential to get a clear picture of who our transfers are, where they transferred from, and how they are doing at UHM. MIRO staff will showcase what data can tell us about transfer students using real-life scenarios and inquiries. Dr. Ronald Cambra, former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, will also share his insights about better supporting transfer students.

    1h 30m

  9. 06/20/2022

    Earth Day Survey and Sustainability Data

    To celebrate the 51st Earth Day and to support this year’s theme “Restore Our Earth”, Mānoa Institutional Research Office (MIRO) hosted a virtual symposium on data and a toolkit to advance personal, institutional, and global sustainability goals, and support personal and societal transformations. This symposium aims to provide a valuable learning opportunity on critical sustainability issues, introduce helpful data tools to the University of Hawai'i community, and encourage institutional researchers support their campus sustainability efforts using our survey and analytical skills.

    1h 31m

  10. 06/20/2022

    University Rankings

    Four most popular international rankings—U.S. News and World Report, Times Higher Education, Shanghai ranking, and QS—will offer their insights and address questions from the audience. MIRO staff will then share their experience and strategies for sharing and using ranking information. The audience will also learn how to use ranking information to market and promote academic programs.

    2h 9m

  11. 06/20/2022

    Student Population and Enrollment Data Visualization

    MIRO’s Director will share the process and logic behind developing the first MIRO web apps and the planning / adjustments needed to make it happen. Dean Krystyna Aune will share how she uses the enrollment web app at work.

    1h 20m

  12. 06/16/2022

    Collect and Use NSSE Survey Data

    Recorded virtual symposium: useful strategies to ensure a successful NSSE survey administration; key findings from the 2020 survey; innovative data & report dissemination tools that MIRO has created; and a panel discussion on how NSSE can be used to improve student learning and overall college experience.

    2h 19m
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Mānoa Institutional Research Office (MIRO) offers a series of virtual symposiums to more deeply engage audiences, both inside and outside of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, in interactive data tool usage and key initiatives to empower higher-education decision makers with reliable and easy-to-access data.

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