Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

Kimberley (Kim) Mentus is our new Administrative Specialist in the office. She previously worked in the Front Office of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, juggling any number of tasks for a staff of over 300 people and clients from all around the world, from February of 2013 to mid-December 2022. Kim is now assisting […]

The National Survey of Student Engagement has officially launched! The survey went live on March 1st. This is a national survey, distributed every three years to first-year and senior students for the purpose of gathering useful feedback about students’ experiences at UMaine.  The NSSE website advertises the survey as a means for universities to learn […]

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) response rate reports are available for fall 2022. At UMaine, fall-to-fall mean response rates have held quite constant since 2020, at ~45%.  Spring mean response rates have been more varied, with a low of 34% in 2022 and a high of 45% in 2021. UMaine Machias switched to a shorter […]

As part of our participation in the  APLU’s (Association of Public & Land Grant Universities) Powered by Publics initiative, the University of Maine has been participating in the Data Literacy Institute throughout 2022-2023. This institute is a collaboration of APLU and the Association for Institutional Research, with funding from Ascendium. It is intended to provide […]

Graduate Assessment Workshops: We led a successful fall workshop series for graduate program assessment. Approximately 8-12 individuals participated in each of these sessions which included the following topics: Assessment Expectations for 2022-23 Program Learning Outcomes Curriculum Mapping Assessment Planning All of these workshops were recorded and can be found on our website. Additional information and […]

The OIRA website includes an Interactive Data page dedicated to Power BI dashboards and tutorials. Here you can find: Public Power BI dashboards: No sign in required Internal Power BI dashboards: UMaine single sign-on and access required Power BI Resources: Video tutorials and guides on various topics College level Academic Affairs dashboards are now available […]

We completed a significant update of the Blue portal to version 8 at the end of the summer. The new update allows for some new functionality in the future. The upgrade was completed without any major issues. Last year, when we implemented new policies around which courses would and would not be automatically included in […]

The collection of First Destination data ended for 2021-2022 graduates in December 2022. We achieved a knowledge rate of 49% for UMaine and 47% for UMaine Machias. This dataset of employment and continuing education outcomes for recent graduates was collected from electronic surveys (i.e., a short survey at the time of graduation and a longer […]

The OIRA website contains a wealth of publicly available data reports. Most of our reports have been updated to include fall 2022 data, and we have begun incorporating data for our regional campus, UMaine Machias, into our reports.  For ease in navigation, the OIRA website includes a Report Index for publicly available reports. Reports are […]