The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness’ activities include strategic planning, data governance, institutional benchmarking, market demand research, studies of academic progress and outcomes, Institute admission and enrollment reporting, and data management.
The office frames and informs the institutional strategic dialogue in active partnership with colleagues, building a culture of evidence to support planning and management, as agents of change at the California Institute of the Arts and in higher education generally.
The office’s goal is to grow the Institute’s degree of intelligence, enabling leadership to ask the right questions with an increasing level of sophistication and nuance, informing stakeholders of CalArts’ position, strengths, challenges, and opportunities to achieve its goals within the context of its mission. Increased intelligence improves CalArts’ competitive advantage and its ability to effectively deliver on its promise to its students.
What services do we provide?
- Fulfill data requests to support strategic planning and operations
- Survey design, implementation and analysis
- Program evaluation
- Market research, environmental scanning and program demand studies
- Enrollment management research
- Program assessment and evaluation
- Other ad hoc research and data analysis that supports institutional and departmental planning and process improvement