<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-bacad0ce-7fff-74e9-ce92-881dc0e7d873"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Data Matters: Monthly Insights and Updates from Institutional Effectiveness</font></span></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">We are excited to join you in welcoming the Fall 2025 semester! See below for information and updates from the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.</font></span></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Data Spotlight: Prioritize Equity and Inclusion</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Tomorrow, August 26th, is National Women’s Equality Day. This annual holiday commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 which granted women the right to vote. In honor of the 125th anniversary of this milestone, we are shining a spotlight about the students and employees who identify as women on our campus! </font></span></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">54%</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">of our campus’s current 730 employees identify as female.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Based on preliminary Fall 2025 data (for more info on when to expect finalized data, keep reading!), approximately</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">63%</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> of all students identify as female. This is above the national average of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">58%</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> female-identifying students.</span></font></p></li></ul><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Plattsburgh Women In Technology Celebrates Women's Equality Day</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Women have always been essential to building the future. Just as women’s suffrage strengthened democracy, equality in technology fuels progress that benefits us all. From Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, to the women scientists and “human computers” of World War II, women have shaped innovation from the start. Although cultural barriers pushed many out of the field in the 1970s, attitudes are shifting. Today, more women than ever are working in science and technology.</font></span></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Got Data? Presentation - Thursday, September 18th 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Our first Got Data? Presentation of the academic year features Director of Access and Opportunity Programs Shatawndra Lister. The event will be held on September 18 from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. in the Alumni Conference Room of the ACC. Light refreshments will be served. If you are interested in presenting at a future Got Data? event, contact us at </span><a href="mailto:OIE@plattsburgh.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">OIE@plattsburgh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Save the date for our October presentation by Kim Irland on Thursday, October 9 at 11 a.m and a November presentation by Dr. Sabah Bushaj.</span></font></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Data Challenge</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In higher education, we often compare populations of students to assess outcomes of programs, initiatives, investments, and so on. There are important considerations to make when doing so and that's the subject of this month's data challenge! A temptation is to divide the population along the demographic of interest and compute some descriptive statistics (e.g. mean, median, standard deviation). While this summarizes the data, it does not indicate whether or not the differences (or similarities) are significant. In line with our intention, we might want to know if a lower GPA from group A is real or coincidence. To get at the significance, we turn to tools such as </span><a href="https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/blog/what-is-a-boxplot" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">boxplots</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><a href="https://statisticsbyjim.com/hypothesis-testing/t-test/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">t-tests</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, and </span><a href="https://unity.edu/distance-education/math-hub/chi-square-test/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">chi-square tests</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Each helps us better understand the differences between our populations.</span></font></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Consider this </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17Dz3dYcOV1B7qC7VMlTfQ8CVnMbOq_lH?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">dataset</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,31,31);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. It contains course grades across an academic year for our three campuses and includes student identified gender. Investigate final grade outcomes by gender using descriptive statistics, boxplots, a t-test, a chi-square test, or other methods. What do the data tell you? Feel free to use whatever tool(s) you are comfortable with; the intended analyses are possible in various applications (e.g. Excel, KNIME, SPSS) as well as programming libraries. You may also consider trying out AI to analyze the dataset and compare its results to your own. Do they agree?</span></font></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Thanks for staying up-to-date with Data Matters and best wishes for a great start to the semester!</font></span></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">The Office of Institutional Effectiveness</font></span></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Erin Campbell | Associate Director, Coordinator for Institutional Research</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Kylie King | Director</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Levi Martinez | Data Analyst</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif">Miranda Van Ness | Graduate Intern</font></span></p></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,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