About the Office of Academic Planning (OAP)

The Office of Academic Planning is...

• a service-oriented office that 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.
• responsible of directing and coordinating the planning processes and the Campus' undergraduate academic program evaluations.

OAP Functions

• Serve as the authorized source of reliable and ample information concerning students, academic programs, courses, schools, faculty and non-faculty personnel, and services.
• Periodically obtain data from a variety of sources in the Campus: Admissions, Registrar, Human Resources and others.
• Proactively identify and begin objective, systematic and in-depth research studies of interest and importance to the Institution, including institutional self-evaluation and policy analysis.
• Maintain and develop SAGA (data warehouse).
• Maintain and develop the Factum system.
• Coordinate, and provide data and technical support for academic program evaluation and services and incorporate the results into the planning process.
• Promote an analytical approach to problem-solving in the decision-making process.
• Collect, generate, maintain and disseminate institutional information to support the planning processes.
• Provide data and technical support for the assessment of results and institutional effectiveness.
• Provide information, consulting and technical support to diverse groups in order to help them in their planning in support of institutional effectiveness and outcomes assessment.