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Five Questions with Grace Corpuz

Project Officer – Surveys and Analysis, Western Sydney University

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Grace chose to be interviewed in chair #14.

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1. What is your job title?

Project Officer – Surveys and Analysis at Western Sydney University.

2. Briefly, how would you describe your role in terms of your place in your institution?

In my role, I:

  • manage regular reporting of performance metrics to the Executive
  • manage and provide oversight to the various institutional surveys
  • develop and provide advice on the development of surveys
  • lead the analysis and reporting of survey results
  • develop survey policy and best practice processes.

3. From your perspective, what are the emerging areas of interest in institutional research?

I think the emerging areas of interest in institutional research are:

  • how to effectively collect student feedback in an environment that is increasingly competing for attention
  • how to effectively triangulate different sources of student data to enable truly student-centric analytics
  • the introduction of predictive analytics on students likely to drop out
  • understanding the changing factors and value systems around student satisfaction.

4. What do you believe will be the future priorities for institutional research?

I believe the future priorities for institutional research will be:

  • understanding the changing labour market and how the sector needs to evolve to cater to these changes
  • how to harness big data to predict student success
  • how to expand labour market linkages to continually sustain sector relevance now and into the future
  • how to maintain the quality of higher education in a rapidly increasing online environment.

5. Complete this statement: In my role, I can’t operate effectively without …

… our end of the week online Fri-yay drinks and games in this COVID-19 lockdown period!

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