Section 01 · The office
About the Office
The Office of Institutional Research communicates institutional information through data and story — one governed source for the numbers RMU publishes, the surveys it runs, and the evidence its accreditors read.
NWCCU Standard 1One canonical source per number
Mission
What this office does
Every published RMU figure — an enrollment headcount, a graduation rate, a survey result — should mean exactly one thing, trace to exactly one source, and read like it was written for a person, not an auditor. The office maintains the institutional data warehouse behind the dashboards, runs the survey program, publishes the Fact Book and standing reports, coordinates accreditation evidence, and answers ad-hoc data requests from one governed desk.
Paper copies of any disclosure
Paper copies of any consumer-information or accreditation disclosure on this site are available free of charge on request — contact the office by email or phone below.
Meet the team
Who we are
Angela WardMS
Leads institutional assessment, the survey program, and accreditation reporting.
Wyatt KnowltonAS
Builds and governs the university’s data warehouse, dashboards, and the published-metrics pipeline behind this site.
Foundations
Mission fulfillment, planning & professional practice
Strategic Plan & KPIs 1.B
The university strategic plan this office measures against, with the key performance indicators reported to leadership.
View the plan ›
Mission Fulfillment Standard 1 Planned
Mission-fulfillment indicators, thresholds, and current performance for NWCCU Standard 1 — one canonical indicator set, linked from Accreditation. Coming with the EIE build.
Data Governance & Definitions
The canonical glossary: census dates, cohort grain, FERPA suppression — every metric defined once, linked everywhere.
Read the definitions ›
Professional affiliations
The office practices within the institutional-research profession: Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Rocky Mountain Association for Institutional Research (RMAIR).