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EdInfo Analytics Team

Purpose

The EdInfo Analytics team is a partnership between the Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE) and Information Technology (IT) to create a systematic and user-friendly interface for Pepperdine's leaders to access data from PeopleSoft and legacy systems in order to make evidence-based decisions for the University.

This purpose will be achieved through:
  • Creating better and more consistent reporting to enhance university understanding about enrollments, retention, and graduation rates.
  • Disaggregating the data by demographic variables as well as GPA and program to observe trends in correlations about student success.
  • Making enrollment, retention, and graduation accessible through OIE's website.

campus technology
Campus Technology Magazine awarded the 2011 Campus Technology Innovators Award to Information Technology (IT) and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE) for their collaboration in establishing a strategic planning data warehouse to help Pepperdine leaders make more evidence-based decisions in University planning. This award recognizes top-notch university administrators, faculty, and staff that demonstrate the vision and leadership needed to take innovative technology initiatives to new heights on their campuses. Pepperdine was one of 10 recipients chosen out of 393 nominations submitted from higher education institutions around the globe. Timothy Chester, vice provost for academic administration and chief information officer, will be accepting the award on behalf of IT and OIE at the Campus Technology 2011 conference this July held in Boston. In the August issue of the Campus Technology magazine will feature Pepperdine's work.


Contact Information

Timothy "Tim" Rogers

Associate Director, Enterprise Information Systems, Information Technology
310.506.6389 |
Tim serves as the Associate Director of Enterprise Information Systems in Information Technology at Pepperdine University. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Pepperdine University in 1998. Prior to joining Pepperdine, Tim served in several capacities at BizRate.com including IT support liaison for special projects including data mining, predictive analytics, and process optimization. He is responsible for data warehouse and reporting strategy and planning efforts as well as relationship, risk, and resource management related to support of strategic planning initiatives with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness. He contributes to the collaboration group’s goals by helping identify the best solution for the problem at hand. His area of interest is in the utilization of information to provide actionable information to faculty and staff in the effort increase student success.

Henry Lai

Senior IT Manager, Archiving and Reporting, Enterprise Information Systems, Information Technology
310.506.4715 |
Henry has been leading data warehousing initiatives for more than 10 years with the goal of helping provide timely and trustworthy data to decision makers at the University. He is an alumnus of Pepperdine University earning a B.S. in Business Administration. He has served in several roles within Information Technology at Pepperdine over the past 20+ years providing broad experience with university information and business processes. He is responsible for data warehouse architecture and tools such as Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL), Online Analytical Processing (OLAP Cube), as well as reporting and presentation layer technologies. He also manages all projects for the Archive and Reporting group, providing guidance and standards for the sourcing, cleansing, transformation, enriching, and delivery of data for use by the OIE office and the decision makers it supports.

Thomas "Tom" Layman

Lead ERP Developer, Archiving and Reporting, Enterprise Information Systems, Information Technology
310.506.4159 |
Tom has been with Pepperdine University for more than 30 years. He has been part of the data warehousing group for the past 4 years. Prior to joining the data warehousing group Tom spent 25+ years within Pepperdine’s Information Technology division working extensively with the student and alumni administrative systems. Tom serves as the lead data warehouse developer focusing on data integrity to maintain trust in the reporting solutions provided. He also supports online analytical processing and regulatory reporting needs.

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