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ABOUT OUR OFFICE
Building 52T, Room 102
(805) 756-2204
Fax (805) 756-2804
ipa@calpoly.edu
Brent S. Goodman
Director, Institutional Planning and Analysis
Michele Anderson, Project/Office Support Coordinator, (805) 756-2204
Richard Grise, Research Programmer/Database Analyst, (805) 756-6019
Patricia Van Belleghem, Information Specialist, (805) 756-7359
MISSION STATEMENT:
The scope of the Office of Institutional Planning and Analysis includes strategic planning, coordination of planning and analysis with other University offices, establishing baseline data, and preparing analytical reports.
The planning function encompasses responsibility for monitoring the external context in which the University works, and for coordinating implementation of the University’s academic mission and enrollment goals and priorities with its academic resources, including information, personnel, and facilities.
The analysis function involves designing, developing and completing interpretative studies as well as the timely provision of accurate, current and relevant institutional data to the Cal Poly campus community, the California State University system, and other interested parties.
OFFICE FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
IP&A's role is to extract, aggregate, analyze, report, and plan. With respect to enrollment, human resources, and space data, IP&A is primarily an interpretive and analytical "user" of aggregate rather than transactional data. Thus, staff depend on other campus offices for data entry and accuracy, so that IP&A can focus on how data should be aggregated, compared, and interpreted across transactions and across functions -- and how this information can assist the University with future planning and resource management.
IP&A's analysis generally starts with data related to students and enrollment, as the size and composition of the student body tends to drive planning for other resources -- faculty and staff, budgets and facilities. As a result, IP&A devotes more attention to enrollment-related data and planning, and other offices use that data to pursue more detailed planning (e.g., admission targets by discipline, faculty recruitment, and revenue projections).
Further, IP&A sees itself as a "provider" of aggregate information in two ways. The first involves the development of analytical reports, which may be published in print or electronic form, at designated intervals (e.g., quarterly) or upon request by the Office's constituents. The second involves enabling campus users to conduct their own analysis. Thus, IP&A has been an active partner with Information Technology Services in helping to make data sources available electronically along with information delivery tools so that users can design queries that meet their particular needs.
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Last Updated: June 15, 2007
Email us: ipa@calpoly.edu
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