Archive for April, 2008

Provost John Etchemendy announced on April 30 his intention to centralize the Institutional Research function at Stanford. He chose to move three Institutional Researchers from their current departments to DSS, so that all IR functions will be run out of one coordinated office. To reflect this change in business practice and focus, DSS will be renamed Institutional Research and Decision Support (IR&DS). The name change and transfer of personnel will occur officially on July 1, 2008, although preparations have been underway since the Provost’s initial announcement. (more…)

Many DSS users are also ReportMart3 users and Oracle Financials users, so they can receive several “month-end close” emails every month—from Oracle Financials, from ReportMart3, and from DSS. It is important for DSS users to know what the typical DSS schedule is, and how it flows from the Oracle Financials close and EDW/ReportMart3 processing. (more…)

The Stanford University accreditation proposal has been submitted to WASC for review. Stanford will receive feedback in late June from the WASC committee assigned to review the proposal. At that time, you will be able to view the proposal and supporting documentation at http://wasc.stanford.edu. (more…)

The Department Profiles for fiscal year 2007 have been distributed to the Provost, Vice-Provost for Budget, Vice- Provost for Graduate Education, and the School Deans for Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences, Law, and the Graduate School of Business. The purpose of the Department Profiles is to provide information regarding the performance of the academic departments in the schools mentioned above. (more…)

As you know, on April 14 DSS upgraded Business Objects and changed the source of its data to the EDW. At that time, we sent out an email with some solutions to common questions or problems. Since then, we’ve enhanced that advice. Here is a list of advice we hope you find useful: (more…)

Due to the re-organization of Institutional Research at Stanford, the DSS Advisory Group, which has been in existence since 2001, is looking to expand its membership to those who are interested in Institutional Research, the data warehouse, survey research, learning assessment/program evaluation, or cross-functional data. The group will also be renamed to reflect the department’s name change. It will be called the Institutional Research and Decision Support Advisory Group (IR&DS AG). (more…)

We’ve imported all of the old newsletter articles into this online format so that everything is searchable and easier to organize. In case you like the old PDFs, though, those are available too!

IRDS Newsletter: Spring 2008 [PDF]