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Provost Dashboard

For those Dashboard Spy readers out there who may be unfamiliar with the finer points of titles within the world of academia, “Provost” is usually the senior academic administrator. Think of him or her as the “Chief Academic Officer” of the university or college. The provost would report to the “CEO” of the college, usually titled President or Chancellor.

Anyway, getting back to executive dashboards, the point of this post is to bring out the fact that, just as in the corporate world, the academic management space is ripe for the growth of business intelligence dashboards. The provost has needs equivalent to a senior vice president within a business. There is a pressing need to manage the vast amounts of KPIs and metrics that surface every day.

Let’s look at an example dashboard that would be used by a provost. Thanks to long=time Dashboard Spy reader and contributor, Robert Allison (SAS/GRAPH Dashboarder and Guru), we have this example of a provost dashboard:

The dashboard is a big one with lots of fine detail, so be sure to click on the dashboard screenshot above to enlarge the image.

Click on the “read more” link below for the rest of this post.

The provost dashboard is sectioned by KPI groupings. The breakdown of the metrics categories is as follows:

Students
Admissions
Instruction
Faculty
Continuing Education
Student Success
Finance

KPI on this dashboard include:

Number of Students
Retention Rates
Graduation Rates for Student Athletes
Applicant Pool
Freshman Acceptance Rates
Freshman GPA
Minority Students
International Students
Student/Faculty Ratio
Faculty Headcount
Female Faculty
Minority Faculty
Faculty Compensation
Faculty Retention
Student Sucess
Finances

Although straight-forward, first-time users of the dashboard will want to familiarize themselves with the legend to make sure they understand the trend indicators. There are red/green/black up and down arrows and large dots to indicate no change.

Tags: Provost Dashboard, College Dashboards, University Metrics

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2 Responses to “Provost Dashboard”

Robert A. Said on July 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pm quote
Here’s a little extra background info about this dashboard…

This is a SAS/Graph imitation of an actual dashboard I found on the following webpage (note that this webpage is no longer there):

http://www.usu.edu/provost/images/dashboard.gif

My SAS/Graph version is *very* close to the original, with a few subtle improvements which I describe here:

http://robslink.com/SAS/democd18/provost_info.htm
Robert A. Said on July 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pm quote
I did some targeted google searching on their website, and although I couldn’t find the 2004 dashboard, here is a link to their 2005/2006 dashboard:

http://www.usu.edu/asusu/assessment/files/Recent/pdf/2005-2006_dashboard.pdf

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