Key Initiatives & Projects - Institutional Data Analytics + Assessment

Key Initiatives 2026-27

Continuing development of the new student data warehouse, including the release of new content areas such as enrollment and admissions, with accompanying metadata available for each area upon release.
Curating faculty data in Elements and implementing the Discovery module to showcase public profiles of faculty expertise and professional activities.
Implementing LLM-assisted assessment processes to evaluate undergraduate critical thinking skill development at scale.
Launching Curricular Analytics tool suite to empower data-informed curricular decisions by revealing structural issues, course relationships, and complexity through intuitive, visual analytics.
Providing data support for institutional initiatives to enhance graduation rates.
Automating and standardizing undergraduate survey workflows to reduce survey fatigue through a scalable and repeatable reporting framework.
Strengthening data governance (the policies, standards, and practices that ensure Purdue’s data is accurate, consistent, and used responsibly) through data mapping, tool evaluation, and training.
Documenting Purdue Data Analytics Platform (PDAP) Data Flows and completing platform upgrades to improve performance, enabling advanced analytics, AI/ML workloads, and real-time data capabilities for campus-wide analytics.
Applying artificial intelligence methods to detect and mitigate fraudulent undergraduate applications.
Additional reporting for compliance with new federal and state legislation.

Chief Data Oficer

Molly Amstutz

Analytics

Andrea Pluckebaum

Assessment

Anne Weiss

Data Engineering

Rajini Prabhu

Data Governance

Kendal Kosta-Mikel

Data Science

Ian Pytlarz

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