With 30 years of higher education experience, Dr. Jason Simon serves as Associate Vice President of Data, Analytics and Institutional Research (DAIR) at the University of North Texas. He leads a comprehensive enterprise-wide data warehouse team of 13 that brings together data sources from across campus to promote data-informed decision-making for UNT.
Dr. Simon also serves as an affiliate faculty member for UNT’s Department of Counseling and Higher Education and is a frequent speaker at local, regional and national conferences on data, analytics, AI/NLP, and institutional culture. His writings focus on how campus culture can impact the success or failure of data and analytic projects. Dr. Simon was one of two institutional researchers to help draft the “Change with Analytics” statement, which promotes data-informed decision-making in new ways across higher education. Finally, he currently serves as a UNT representative on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for AIR/EDUCAUSE/NACUBO to improve analytic maturity in higher education. This work was just released in September 2024 at
https://changewithanalytics.com/playbook/.
Session: Cultivating WSU Data Culture: Data Mindsets & Behaviors to Fuel Success (Keynote)
Event: 2024 WSU Data Summit: Data + You
