Mission

The Office of Integrated Planning and Decision Support (IPaDs) provides services and research-based data for use in institutional planning, evaluation, decision-making, fund-raising and policy-making.

Goals

• Support development of action plans and allocation of resources for their development.
• Facilitate and support objectives and continuous evaluation of the institution, its environment and its success in achieving institutional goals and objectives.
• Coordinate institutional data collection, analysis and reporting for internal and external evaluations, and to fulfill reporting requirements.
• Develop special analyses and studies for use in strategic planning, decision-making and accreditation.
• Provide staff support to Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC).

Objectives

• Use focus groups and other assessment tools to determine institutional research priorities.
• Develop protocol to standardize initiation, implementation and completion of institutional research projects.