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New Campus Analytics Released: 08.22.2023

Data to Insights is excited to announce the release of a suite of Semester Credit Hours (SCH) dashboards as part of UT’s growing Trusted Information Infrastructure.

These dashboards include new drilldown features that allow users to view SCH by Funding College/School and Offering College/School and are built upon integrated, reusable, and scalable data architecture within the cloud-based UT Data Hub. They are available to all current faculty and staff.

You can find these and other D2I analytics dashboards within the campus Insights Service where you are able to discover and access resources after logging in with your UT EID and password (UT VPN required if off campus).

Semester Credit Hours—Funding
Semester Credit Hours—Offering

We encourage all faculty and staff to explore these new resources and discover new insights!

Release of Financial Dashboards: 10.16.2023

Data to Insights (D2I) is excited to share the wide release of our newest deliverable: CSU Alignment v1.0, a suite of financial dashboards covering:

Sources and Uses
Net Income
Faculty Account Balance
Faculty/PI Financial Transactions
Detailed Financial Transactions

Why It Matters: These dashboards were built with data sources from our new, enhanced Financial Data Model with robust partnership with business officers across campus. They combine the model with a cloud-based application and DEFINE in ways not previously possible in order to improve managerial accounting at UT Austin.

Who Has Access: The current CSU Alignment v1.0 dashboards are available to executives, university academic business officers, and authorized viewers within the CSUs who agreed to participate in this project with the new configuration (CNS, COLA, McCombs, LBJ, Information). These specific academic CSUs are the only ones whose data is currently available within these new financial alignment analytics dashboards.

Questions about this project or how to get involved should be directed to insights@utexas.edu.

Updated Analytics and Census Refreshes: 10.18.2023

Data to Insights (D2I) is delighted to share exciting updates to our institution’s trusted information infrastructure, in support of data-informed decisions here at UT Austin.

Optimizing Faculty Strategies: Faculty Headcount and FTE

This new deliverable provides university, college/school, and department leadership with a powerful tool for analyzing historical faculty headcount and FTE trends. This dashboard is widely available to all current faculty and staff and provides a foundation for understanding faculty trends across various nuances and dimensions. This initiative underscores our commitment to unearthing data definitions and building shared and contextualized information. Access this deliverable via Insights here.

Empowering Timely Decision-Making: Fall 2023 Census Refreshes

As of October 2023, D2I has implemented Fall 2023 Census refreshes to a suite of widely available dashboards on student enrollment, semester credit hours, and degrees, minors, and certificates awarded. These updates provide timely and accurate information for critical decision areas in the new academic year. Search for the latest deliverables at Insights.

If you missed our recent InfoShare focused on Advancing Campus Analytics, including a demo of the new Faculty Headcount and FTE dashboard, you can find the recording within our D2I InfoShare Library.