Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

The System Wide Academic Assessment Committee (SWAAC), on which a number of OIRA staff serve, will be offering a system-wide workshop in fall 2024 focused on interpreting results from assessing student learning to support program improvements. This topic was selected based on interest expressed by faculty in a survey last year. We would like your […]

We are gearing up to begin collecting First Destination data for students who will graduate in Spring 2024, as well as any students who graduated in Summer or Fall 2023. Students who know their plans for after graduation – whether that be with an employer, enrolling in graduate school, or service in the military, or […]

The IR Data Fellows Program, aimed at expanding data utilization and literacy across campus, began in January. This initiative seeks to equip staff throughout UMaine with the necessary skills to leverage campus data resources effectively, with the goal of establishing a sustainable data literacy strategy. This strategy aims to empower users and foster a broader […]

New Report Index OIRA’s Report Index provides a complete inventory of public static reports. We recently redesigned the Report Index to be more efficient and easily navigable, featuring dropdown menus organized by report topic. Categories include admissions, enrollment, retention and graduation, the First Destination Survey, student evaluations of teaching, and more. Our Common Data Set […]

Since last summer, OIRA has provided data to Associate Provost Scott Marzilli as he coordinated support for the fall 2023 first year students. This collaboration began with data analysis to identify a set of factors correlated with lower success rates that could be helpful for identifying students who would potentially need extra support to succeed […]

This spring, OIRA continued to provide presentations of the spring 2022 HEDS Diversity and Equity Campus Climate Survey data analysis to stakeholder groups. A presentation and college-level topline summary briefs were provided to college deans. Findings were also shared with the Provost’s Advisory Council on Equity and the Mental Health Task Force to support ongoing […]

Gateways to Success, one of the UMS Transforms Student Success and Retention initiatives, finished its first pilot semester in fall 2023. Each campus in the University of Maine System was invited to offer proposals aimed at improving outcomes in courses that contribute disproportionately to D, F, W, or L grades by degree-seeking undergraduates. The first […]

Program assessment three-year reports are due by June 30 from the following programs: The 3-year reports consist of: 1.) A 3-year summary report and 2.) Updated learning outcomes data for all program learning outcomes in the annual reporting site.  As always, our assessment staff is ready and available to meet with you to answer any […]

Graduate programs have continued to make progress with learning outcomes assessment planning through the fall and winter, with all graduate program coordinators having communicated with OIRA about assessment within the past year. To date, 100 of the 159 active graduate degree programs have program learning outcomes. We have received and provided feedback on assessment plans […]

We are happy to announce our first ever General Education Summit on May 23, 2024. With support from the Davis Educational Foundation and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost we have invited Dr. Kate McConnell and Dr. Eddie Watson, two renowned speakers from AAC&U, to present their national perspective […]