Archived Events
2024-2025 Events Heading link
Summer Edge Mixed-Methods Evaluation
Topic Overview: This joint presentation provided an overview of Summer Edge, an academic recovery program implemented at UIC in Summer 2023 and Summer 2024. Presenters shared findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of the program, as well as lessons learned by program administrators.
Presented by Lindsey Back, Director, Office for Research on Student Success; Darima Butitova, Assistant Director, Office for Research on Student Success; Jessie Wrona, Data Analyst, Office for Research on Student Success; Lakshita Malik, Graduate Research Assistant, Office for Research on Student Success; Natalie Kokorudz, Associate Director, UIC Summer Session; Felicia Keelen, UIA Associate
Event date: September 26, 2024
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2023-2024 Events Heading link
Making Progress Toward Degree Using Summer Session, AYS, and Summer Edge Program
Topic Overview: This presentation provided an overview of the 2024 Summer Session, including 2 scholarship programs: the popular Accelerate Your Success program, and a new academic recovery program – Summer Edge, which offers an opportunity for students to retake select courses tuition-free.
Presented by Natalie Kokorudz, Associate Director, Summer Session; Felicia Keelen, UIA Fellow; Darima Butitova, Assistant Director, Office for Research on Student Success.
Event date: March 21, 2024
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Fall 2023 Cohort and Enrollment Trends
Topic Overview: The Office of Institutional Research and Enrollment Management made a joint presentation on recent student enrollment trends, data on the newest undergraduate cohorts, and a look at the subsequent enrollment institutions of students who didn’t enroll at UIC.
Presented by Stephanie Estrada, Senior Associate Director of the Office of Institutional Research, and Brad Gardner, Director of Enrollment Analytics
Event date: December 6, 2023
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SAP Cancellations, a Deeper Dive
Topic Overview: UIC saw a steep increase in cancellations of new first-year student financial aid eligibility due to Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements. Join us for a review of high-level trends in SAP cancellations and appeals, and ground-level data on student groups most impacted by SAP cancellations with a focus on pre-matriculation factors and other signals we might use to anticipate academic progress issues.
Presented by Kiely Fletcher, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management, Brad Gardner, Director of Enrollment Analytics, and Darima Butitova, Assistant Director of the Office for Research on Student Success
Event date: November 10, 2023
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Planning for Success? Proactive Advising Interventions
Topic Overview: We have reached a phase in the campus implementation of iAdvise where it can be leveraged as a tool for student success planning, taking into account proactive advising interventions and strategies that we currently use. Join us for a conversation about how we have piloted the use of success plans with our On Track predictive analytics model, including outcomes and opportunities to amplify strategic interventions using the components in iAdvise. Discuss with us how our advising community members and partners (the humans) can maximize the technology to better facilitate meaningful student experiences, retention, and graduation.
Presented by Joey Volpe, Associate Vice Provost for Advising Development, Nick Ardinger, Associate Director of the Office for Advising Development, Lindsey Back, Director of the Office for Research on Student Success, Darima Butitova, Assistant Director of the Office for Research on Student Success, and Jessie Wrona, Undergraduate Affairs Data Analyst
Event date: October 26, 2023
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2022-2023 Events Heading link
Summer Session and Accelerate Your Success
The Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Effectiveness presented benefits and unique features of Summer Session and the history and program goals of Accelerate Your Success.
Presenters: Lindsey Back, PhD, Director, Office for Research on Student Success and Natalie Kokorudz, Associate Director, Summer Session
Event date: March 21, 2023
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Rising Together: The story of L@s GANAS, and its impact on students, faculty, and UIC
Event date: March 6, 2023
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Fall 2022 Cohort/Recruitment 101
The Office of Institutional Research, Academic and Enrollment Services, and the Office of Recruitment and Outreach presented undergraduate enrollment data, trends, and recruitment strategies.
Event date: November 30, 2022
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Equity Dashboard
The Equity Dashboard project was initiated in 2018 and is a collaborative partnership between UIC’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Engagement, the Office of Institutional Research, and the Office of Enrollment Management. The project is intended as a tool to raise awareness of equity gaps between groups of students at UIC.
Event date: October 27, 2022
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Applying Predictive Analytics to Promote Student Success: Integrating 4- and 6-Year Graduation Models
The Office for Research on Student Success has developed first-year by-term indicators to identify students who may encounter challenges to graduating in 4 or 6 years and to inform prevention and early intervention strategies to support them. This presentation focuses on using predictive analytics to facilitate proactive advising and coaching in order to keep students on track for graduation. We also share a series of interactive dashboards which link indicators to outcomes and student demographics on an aggregate level and discuss plans for piloting these by-term metrics on an individual level in iAdvise.
Event date: September 22, 2022
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2021-2022 Events Heading link
iAdvise Update
Presenters:
Josephine Volpe, Assistant Vice Provost for Advising Development, Office for Advising Development
Nick Ardinger, PhD, Associate Director, Office for Advising Development
Event date: April 27, 2022
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Pre-Matriculation Inventory, High-Need Referrals, and COVID-19 Survey: Understanding Trends in the Context of the Pandemic
Presenters:
Dr. Darima Butitova, Undergraduate Affairs Data Analyst, Office for Research on Student Success;
Ray Fuller, Undergraduate Affairs Data Analyst, Office for Research on Student Success;
Danny Lambouths III, Research Analyst, Office of Institutional Research.
Event date: March 21, 2022
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Using Predictive Analytics and Goal-Setting to Promote Graduation
Presenters:
Dr. Lindsey Back, Director, Office for Research on Student Success
Dr. Darima Butitova, Data Analyst, Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Academic Programs
Event date: September 30th, 2021
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Fall 2021 Enrollment Trends and Profile of First-Year and Transfer Students
Presenters:
Bill Hayward, Associate Vice Provost, and Director, Institutional Research
Oscar Rodriguez, Associate Vice Provost, Academic and Enrollment Services, Recruitment
Event date: November 17, 2021
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Fall 2021 New Undergraduates' Admission and Enrollment Trends
Presenters:
Oscar Rodriguez, Associate Vice Provost, Academic and Enrollment Services, Recruitment
Event date: February 16, 2022
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2020-2021 Events Heading link
Student Living Situations and Commuting Experiences: Understanding Implications for Academics, Belonging, and Connection
Presenters:
Lindsey Back, Associate Director, Office for Research on Student Success, Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Academic Programs
Reshunda Bates, Graduate Assistant, Elizabeth Salgado, Graduate Assistant
Kelly McCray, Interim Director, Commuter and Off-Campus Life
Event date: March 22, 2021
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Fall 2020 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and COVID-19 Survey Results
Presenters:
Bill Hayward, Associate Vice Provost and Director of Institutional Research, Office of Institutional Research
Sue Farruggia, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Assessment and Planning, Student Affairs
Anna Pasillas-Santoyo, Associate Director, Yanelet Delgado, Research Analyst
Danny Lambouths III, Research Analyst, Office of Institutional Research
Event date: January 27, 2021
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Non-Academic Factors Influencing Student Success: Fall 2020 Cohort Noncognitive Assets, Financial Concerns, and High-Need Referrals
Presenters:
Lindsey Back, Associate Director of the Office for Research on Student Success
Darima Butitova, Undergraduate Affairs Data Analyst, Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Academic Programs
Event date: December 1, 2020
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Engage Students: Be Mindful, Authentic and Prosocial
Presenter: Dr. Lan Nguyen Chaplin, Associate Professor of Marketing and Faculty Fellow with the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Academic Programs at University of Illinois at Chicago
Event date: November 18, 2020
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Enrollment Trends and Profile of First-Years and New Transfers for the Fall 2020 Semester
Presenters:
Bill Hayward, Associate Vice Provost, and Director, Institutional Research
Oscar Rodriguez, Associate Vice Provost, Academic and Enrollment Services, Recruitment
Event date: November 5, 2020
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