Mission and Functions

The Institutional Research Office advances Viterbo University’s mission by supporting decision-making, planning, and evaluation through information and analysis.

1. External Reporting: Coordinate the preparation and submission of external reporting of institutional statistics to federal, state, accrediting agencies, and other entities, working to ensure data integrity, quality, and consistency for all reporting.
2. Planning and Evaluation: Collaborate in promoting the use of institutional data for planning and evaluation, including program review and strategic planning; provide data access through dashboards and reports.
3. Data Analysis: Conduct in-depth data analysis to provide insights into trends, student outcomes, and other key performance indicators; utilize predictive analytics to forecast future trends and support data-informed decision-making; present findings to various campus stakeholders based on their needs.
4. Data Governance: Collaborate in ensuring an institution-wide data strategy, contribute to governance of university data (reliability, standardized definitions, appropriate access), and promote data access for information and continuous improvement.
5. Survey Administration and Consultation: Oversee the administration of institutional surveys to gather valuable feedback and data from students, faculty, staff, and alumni; provide consultation on quantitative and qualitative research design and statistical analyses methodologies.
6. Evaluation Support: Provide administrative oversight and technical support for university evaluation tools (Qualtrics, Watermark, and Tableau).
7. Data promotion: Collaborate in convening discussions related to data needs, connecting producers and users of data for quality data collection, appropriate access, data literacy, analysis, and interpretation for informed decision making.

IR Data Request Form

The Institutional Research team loves to assist you with your data needs! Please use the link below to request data. The form will take only a minute or two and will help us provide the data you need in a timely manner. This is for internal use only. If you have questions, contact any of the Institutional Research Staff via the link to the right. 

Click here for the Data Request Form