Research

Briefs and Reports

The Effect of Timing and Ordering on Kin291 and Kin292 Courses on 4-Year Graduation Rates
Prepared by Dr. Mark Davenport – October 2025.

Trends in Graduate Education
Prepared by Dr. Mark Davenport – 2023/2024.

Fall 2021 First-Time Cohort One-Year Retention by Mac Course Semester
Prepared by Karen Blackwell & Dr. Mark Davenport – May 2023.

First Spring and Second Fall Retention of the First-Time in College Cohort 
Prepared by Karen Blackwell & Dr. Mark Davenport – August 2022.

Pre-Academic & Academic Profiles of First-Year Freshman Cohorts and the Relationship to Retention 
Prepared by Karen Blackwell & Samantha Bradley – June 2019.

Academic Probation and Recovery  
Prepared by Karen Blackwell & Samantha Bradley – June 2019.

Transfer Student Academic Outcomes
Prepared by Karen Blackwell & Samantha Bradley – June 2019.

PRESENTATIONS

NCES-CEEB Crosswalk 2nd Ed.: Simplifying the Integration of Institutional and Government Data for Prediction and Data Mining
Prepared by Dr. Mark Davenport – NCAIR Forum 2025.

Data Governance & Compliance
Presented by Alice Herring to BS Information Science Ethics Class – October 2022.

Predicting Student Enrollment Using Markov Chain Modeling in SAS
Presented by Samantha Bradley – May 2019.

Predicting Student Retention Based on NSSE Results
Presented by Dr. Bill Zhang – SAIR 2018.

From Fact Book to Dashboard at UNCG
Presented by Dana Zhang and Dr. Larry Mayes – NCAIR 2017.

Visualizing Major Change Using an Interactive Sankey Diagram
Presented by Dr. Mark Davenport – AIR Forum 2017.