By developing a set of dashboards for the DEIB Division, EOU will be able to monitor overall retention, persistence and completion disaggregated by an intentional set of student populations each year.

The goal of this project is to enhance departmental data access across the institution to allow department staff and faculty to identify and eliminate systemic barriers to increase opportunities and access for those who have been historically and are currently marginalized. We are using a framework to address university systems that create known barriers for marginalized student populations. The work will take place across the institution and utilize university data for strategic planning and evaluation. Through work done with the Moon Shot for Equity, gaps in data accessibility were discovered and our project aims to take steps to resolve this problem.

• EOU does not have a clear shared definition of terminology (example: how is an ‘active’ student defined? Many different definitions and understandings among staff & faculty).
• EOU has data spread out across many systems, which can make measuring outcomes a challenge.
• Individual ‘rogue’ surveys have been created by faculty & staff to collect data for their own purposes. This is problematic because this survey data is not connected to other existing data sets.
• Data access is further complicated by FERPA and Oregon Law, and can be a barrier to releasing and accessing data.
• While Admissions decisions cannot be made based on race/ethnicity data, EOU recognizes some departments need to know this information to develop programs for minoritized populations to ensure their success. To meet this challenge, EOU is working on a dashboard to show race/ethnicity at EOU.
• Complications could include users incorrectly interpreting data; users would need to be trained.