Allen named assistant provost for institutional research and assessment
Debra Allen, associate director of the University of Maine Office of Institutional Research, has been named UMaine assistant provost for institutional research and assessment, effective Jan. 1.
Allen has been a member of the UMaine community since 2002. She has worked in the Office of Institutional Research for the past eight years.
Her interdisciplinary Ph.D. from UMaine focused on institutional research, higher education and public policy.
As assistant provost for institutional research and assessment on the Academic Affairs leadership team, Allen is responsible for supporting data-informed strategic institutional planning and overseeing the merger of the offices of Institutional Research and Assessment, which became a single unit Jan. 1.
“Combining institutional research and assessment will help leverage data to answer strategic questions regarding student success,” Allen says. “Given the growing institutional focus on assessment and access to data, a primary goal of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment will be to expand access to data and tools in support of a more data-informed culture at UMaine. Toward that end, I look forward to leading the talented institutional research and assessment team, as well as collaborating with administrators, faculty, staff and other stakeholders on campus.”