Christopher Cherry | IT Training & Support Specialist

Whether you’re new to UAccess Analytics or looking to refresh your skills, this session offers an overview of essential tools and techniques. Discover UAIR’s favorite tips and tricks to navigate UAccess Analytics like a pro, collaborate effectively with colleagues, and repurpose existing reports with ease. Leave with practical strategies and a plan to continue your data journey—all in this friendly session designed for users at any stage of their UAccess Analytics experience.

Cindy Rupp Valdez | Director of Marketing Technology

Frances Miller | Data Strategy Manager

Nick Martin | Senior Data Analyst

Teams from University Analytics and Institutional Research, Trellis and University Marketing and Communications joined forces to create a comprehensive dashboard for institutional email data analysis. This collaborative effort brought together diverse expertise in data analytics, IT infrastructure, and user expectations, resulting in a powerful tool for email performance evaluation. The presentation will walk attendees through the process of building the tool, as well as learning how to derive meaning from the metrics it provides.

Jenn Ludwig | Director of Strategic Interventions 
Laura Andrews | Senior Analyst 
Jenny Nirh | Director of Outreach & Communication  
Mark Ray | Academic Data Architect

The reenrollment intercept is a targeted survey to capture enrollment plans through a WebAuth intercept message. After the priority registration window closes, students who meet population criteria and are not enrolled for the next major term will receive a targeted message as they authenticate into university applications. The message alerts the student they are not enrolled and invites them to let us know their plans through the optional survey. The survey is set to automatically create a Trellis Service Desk ticket for SOS if a student indicates that they would like to talk to someone about their responses. SOS connects with the student and refers the case to the appropriate department to support reenrollment efforts. Survey results are also shared as an Analytics dashboard so that advisors and other support staff can prioritize outreach efforts and identify barriers to reenrollment for their student population. Come learn how this strategic nudge was created out of an Arizona Innovation Alliance collaboration and how SSRI, UITS, and UAIR work together to create this outreach opportunity every semester for students.

Jennifer Rascon | Business Manager

Giovanna Acuña | Data Analytics

AB Silva | Program Manager

Conducting rate studies for service departments can be a manual, redundant, and time-consuming process. Environmental Sciences and UAIR have collaborated to develop a process and tool that have streamlined this task for Environmental Sciences. They now aim to share this process and tool with other campus users, hoping to inspire the creation of similar solutions.

Kashyap Nadendla | Graduate Student 

This app is an AI-powered data analytics tool that automates data visualization and analysis. Users can upload datasets, filter data by categories, and instantly generate multiple visualizations with the help of OpenAI's language model. The visualizations are converted into images, which are then analyzed by the AI for deeper insights, providing descriptive context and highlighting trends within the data. This app streamlines exploratory data analysis (EDA) and enhances data interpretation, making complex analytics accessible and actionable.

Doug Hester | Business Intelligence Architect

Giovanna Acuña | Data Analyst 

Currently UAccess Analytics does not support the direct upload of external data sources such as Excel reports. This makes the process of merging external data sets with existing reports within Analytics a manual and time-consuming task. However, by using Oracle Visualizer as a tool, it is now possible to both incorporate external data sources as well as create visuals for these data sets. Our presentation will demonstrate the process of achieving this within Oracle Visualizer and then adding the results to your Department or College dashboards.

Ashley Hurand | Assistant Director

Sharon Aiken-Wisniewski | Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Advising

In partnership with the Advising Resource Center, this session will explore how the Undergraduate Advising Central dashboard was developed by UAIR through the strategic use of effective focus groups and user experience testing. This new dashboard serves as a starting point for the advising community to access valuable insights about diverse student populations, helping to inform decision-making and student support. This session will dive into the principles of conducting successful focus groups and user testing, showing how these methods can be used to refine dashboard design and ensure it aligns with user needs. By incorporating direct feedback, ARC and UAIR hope to enhance the dashboard’s effectiveness for empowering the advising community with the confidence to interpret institutional data and apply it for better student outcomes.

Melina Casillas | Senior Coordinator for Orientation & New Student Services

Logan Adams | Director of Orientation & New Student Services

This presentation demonstrates how Orientation & New Student Services has been able to implement transformational programming for students throughout their enrollment process. The data shows that students have an average of 7% higher retention rates when attending and participating in their Virtual Orientation Experience and the Destination Arizona transition program.

Eddie Caratachea | Assistant Director of Administrative Data

Matthew Kennedy | Assistant Vice President of Budget and Treasury 

Join us as we explore the recently delivered financial reporting tools designed to enhance our institution's financial planning capabilities. These new dashboard pages integrate advanced attributes, streamlining data visibility and supporting more informed decision-making for strategic planning and resource management.

Naima Brown | Academic Analytics

Join us for an overview of Academic Analytics and the suite of tools available to the University of Arizona to support data-driven decision-making. We’ll explore how Benchmarking, Research Insight, and Alumni Insight can enhance faculty strategic hiring, research development, and alumni career tracking. Additionally, we will highlight case studies from peer institutions that have successfully leveraged these tools — such as using Benchmarking to identify unit level impact of faculty retention, Research Insight to uncover interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities, and Alumni Insight to strengthen external engagement and career outcomes. This session will provide actionable strategies for integrating these resources into institutional planning efforts.

Matthew Cheffer | Data Analyst

Jolene Gupton | Data Analyst

This presentation will demonstrate how to use UAccess Analytics more efficiently by showcasing tools and techniques that address common challenges users face. Attendees will learn how to navigate dashboards, customize analyses, create new tables, and design personalized dashboards. The step-by-step walkthrough will highlight features like report customization, content formatting, and secure sharing practices. The session will conclude with resources for ongoing support, empowering users to optimize their workflows and fully leverage the capabilities of UAccess Analytics.

Jeff Schwarz | Business Intelligence Developer

Eddie Caratachea | Assistant Director of Administrative Data

Interested in using Agents, but aren't sure if they're right for your process? In this presentation we will talk about common use cases for Agents; the problems they solved and how they have impacted the departments using them. This will not be a How-To about Agents. Rather, we will talk about why to use them. If you decide Agents are right for you, we will direct you to resources to help create and manage Agents.

Caleb Simmons | Executive Director of Online Education

Rico Silva | Program Manager

Marla Rodriguez | Manager of Student Data, Outreach, and Decision Support

Trevor Kvaran | Director of Institutional Reporting and Insights

Over the past decade, no segment has driven more innovation and change in higher education than online learning. This evolution introduced new data and information needs unimaginable 30 years ago when modern higher education established its standard data collection and reporting practices. Since its launch in 2015, The University of Arizona Online has rapidly expanded, becoming the second-largest campus at the University of Arizona and accounting for 17% of the university's total enrollment. In this presentation, University Analytics and Institutional Research and Arizona Online will come together to provide a high-level overview of how we've adapted to the data needs of online institutions to enhance strategy, decision-making, and student support. Together, we aim to illustrate how the partnerships between back-end data experts and front-end stakeholders can meet the dynamic data needs of online universities.

Sarah Dasher | Data Analyst

Todd Woodman | Research Data Analytics

UAIR has done significant work to streamline the complex and manual process of aggregating university data for the annual NSF HERD survey. In this presentation, we will explain the changes UAIR has made to improve the efficiency and accuracy of this major annual benchmark.

Mónica De Soto Vega | Director of General Education Planning

Anuj Gupta | Data Science Graduate Associate

Ryan Winet | Director of Communications

Gabriela Samaniego Regalado | Graduate Assistant

In this presentation, we will demonstrate the Office of General Education (OGE) innovative data analytics processes through which we leverage a diverse range of data skillsets in our team to support data-driven decision-making across campus that helps improve graduation rates and improve the efficiency of course proposal reviews. Mónica De Soto Vega collaborations with multiple colleges and campuses over the last 37 years has given us deep knowledge of institutional memory that helps to contextualize what the data from Analytics means. Anuj Gupta and Gaby Samaniego are graduate students whose sharp data analytics skills in R and Python help us clean, merge, and analyze the data to make projections. Ryan Winet's expertise in visual communication and Canva helps us communicate those insights to stakeholders across campus with varying degrees of data literacy. Through this session, we hope to inspire you to step out of your comfort zone and see an example of how your team could leverage the university's data capabilities to improve your workflows.

Zuleima Cota | Data Analyst

This session will cover universal design principles to consider when building a dashboard and the tools that UAIR has available to facilitate the application of these principles including the UAIR dashboard design template. Adopting a user-centered approach can help users reach insights and get the data that they need more efficiently. Through this session, participants will gain an understanding of how to create a simple dashboard in their personal UAccess Analytics folder and how to apply layouts, color, and headings. This session is open to all levels of UAccess Analytics proficiency but especially for beginners who might not be as familiar with the tools that UAIR has available to that might help them organize their own personal analytics folder or improve their dashboards.

Daniel Saud | Assistant Dean of International Admissions and Enrollment

Trevor Kvaran | Director of Institutional Reporting and Insights

In 2024 UAIR and AZI partnered together to develop a competitive scholarship program for international students using student success data and GDP per capita of the country. The research led to AZI creating a Service Leadership Award. This scholarship award provided access to high achieving, academically talented, high school student leaders to pursue their education at the U of A and serve as university's ambassadors to their respective communities and high schools by recruiting more students to the University of Arizona. This session will discuss the data analysis and development of the scholarship using institutional data to further academic excellence and international student enrollment.

Iliana Fernandez | Finance Administration Director

Rico Silva | Program Manager

AB Silva | Program Manager

During the account reconciliation process, it may be necessary to explore the details of a batch transaction that is loaded from Student Financials. With the feedback of some users across campus, UAIR has developed a path to get to the Student Financial details of the UAccess Financials transaction using a set of dashboards in UAccess Analytics.

Casey Miller | Middleware Analyst

Devesh Waingankar | ETL Developer

Modern data challenges require scalable, cost-effective, and flexible solutions to manage and analyze large volumes of information. This presentation introduces UAIR's initiative to build out an AWS S3 data lake, highlighting its transformative potential for enterprise data management. Attendees will learn how Amazon S3 serves as the foundation for a centralized data repository, AWS Glue simplifies data transformation and cataloging, and AWS Athena provides serverless querying capabilities for actionable insights. The presentation focuses on two key use cases: integrating Salesforce data through automated workflows, and archiving historical warehouse tables to reduce storage costs while maintaining accessibility. By showcasing the benefits of a data lake, including enhanced scalability, streamlined ETL/ELT processes, and significant cost savings, this session aims to demonstrate how UAIR is leveraging AWS technologies to modernize data operations and empower end-users with efficient data access.