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Institutional
Research
The Office
of Academic Planning (OAP) has the task, among others, of maintaining
an agenda of institutional research that address to the height
of the challenges that the Río Piedras' Campus confronts,
product of external and internal forces. The OAP utilizes objective
methods to search, collect and analyze data to produce information
which allows the academic managers to make well-informed decisions
and to develop appropriate policies.
The Institutional
Research Unit (IRU) of the OAP is responsible of the design, coordination
and the fulfillment of this agenda. In the period from 1995 to
1997, OAP conducted research in topics such as statistical profiles
and perception, adaptation, level of satisfaction and performance
of the student component. Beginning in the year 1998, the OAP
generates reports, research and documents concerning a variety
of subjects with a clear link to the Campus' Strategic Action
Plan. The OAP continues the student component research and moves
into new subjects such as: partial and total withdrawals report,
enrollment tendencies; demand for nocturnal programming; curriculum
and course catalog analysis; inventory of assessment activities
and indicators of institutional performance, among others. |
