December 2019 Newsletter

Explore Retention and Graduation Rates with Interactive Data Dashboard

This month OIRA introduces our fourth interactive data dashboard highlighting retention and graduation rates for first-time, full-time students. This is our first dashboard that drills down to the college level.  We have provided two filters related to the students’ first major: One that filters  on STEM/not STEM and a second that allows you to select […]

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Assessment Goes to Grad

We have been enjoying getting to know our UMaine graduate programs better this fall!  UMaine has had an organized system for undergraduate program assessment for a number of years, and we are working toward a similar system for our graduate-level programs.  We will be piloting graduate program assessment plan writing with two UMaineGOLD graduate programs: […]

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No reason to be BLUE about these numbers!

In fact, we are really impressed with the greater-than-expected voluntary increase in the number of units and courses on campus giving student evaluations of teaching online in Blue! As of Fall 2019 73% of all UMaine lecture, labs and seminar classes are being evaluated in Blue and 68% of all academic units are using Blue […]

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Navigate

The Navigate teams are wrapping up a very successful semester of pilots and we have several people to thank for their great work. Julia McGuire from the School of Biology and Ecology and Todd Zoroya and Jennifer Tyne from Math and Statistics participated in the first pilot of progress reports and early alerts in the […]

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