Incorporating Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Data in an Institutional Data Warehouse

Dr. David WierschemJeremy McMillenDr. Randy McBroom

Drivers for Building a Coordinating Board Data Warehouse

Outcomes Assessment Climate Accountability from Legislators THECB Data is used for funding purposes Could use for strategic management

What is a Data Warehouse?

A data warehouse is a subject oriented, integrated, non-volatile, and time variant collection of data in support of management decisions (Inmon, 1996).

Takes a ‘snapshot’ in time to provide for a consistent data source, which is often difficult to accomplish off of an operational system.

THECB Data establishes a historical source of data that has already gone through data cleansing.

What Information is in THECB Data? Student Information (001 – Fall, Spring & Summer) TASP Data (002 – Fall, Spring, Sum I & Sum II) Course Information (004 – Fall, Spring & Summer) University Room Use (005 – Fall) End of Semester Report (006 – Fall, Spring &

Summer) Faculty Data (008 – Fall & Spring) Graduating Student Report (009 -- Fall) Admissions Information (00B, Fall)

Why a Data Warehouse? Allow easy access to data from a variety of

sources and platforms with relatively easy integration

Control for the discrepancies in data by migrating the management information system (or data warehouse) from a dynamic data store (operational/ transactional) to a static data store

Being able to conduct extensive data mining. Allows for integration with other data sources for

more complex analysis.

Integration Iterative issues of submissions/

resubmissions could be reduced; thereby improving the quality and timeliness of data submissions.

Strategic utilization of THECB data could be enhanced if the timeline were reduced.

Building relational databases to allow for expansion of knowledge about reported data.

Data Warehouse Development Methodology – System Development Life Cycle

InitialOrganization

Analysis Design

Develop ment

Testing Implementation Maintenance

Contacts David Wierschem, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems

david_wierschem@tamu-commerce.edu(903)886-5923

Jeremy McMillen, Director of Institutional Researchjeremy_mcmillen@tamu-commerce.edu(903)886-5509

Randy McBroom, Assistant to the President for Planning and Institutional Effectivenessrandy_mcbroom@tamu-commerce.edu(903)886-5926

Texas A&M University-CommerceP.O. Box 3011Commerce, TX 75429-3011