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Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning - George Mason University
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Planning

Data with purpose. The qualitative and quantitative information OIEP curates, analyzes, and publishes illuminates trends, forecasts potential and contributes to the ongoing planning initiatives of the university including strategic institutional goals, program planning and innovation, and student success.

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institutional Effectiveness

How do we know what we are doing works? Defining and assessing student learning outcomes, engaging in rigorous program review, conducting surveys to understand experience and satisfaction and student evaluations of teaching are all ways in which Mason can learn more about how we are doing and what we can improve.

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Mason's Assessment Framework
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Data Analytics and Research

Want to learn more about Mason? Explore the reports here to learn more about applicants to graduates, survey outcomes, human resources and planning.

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Student Evaluations of Teaching

In consultation with the University Effective Teaching Committee, Faculty Senate Chair, the Provost, the Registrar and ITS, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning has selected a new way to conduct student evaluations of teaching. This online format will meet institutional needs in an environmentally friendly and fiscally responsible way. The evaluation software Blue by Explorance was chosen for its functionality, ease of use and demonstrated success at many intuitions, including several in Virginia.

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Student Success

What does the student lifecycle at Mason look like? From where do our applicants come? Where do our admitted students enroll? Once enrolled, how many students are retained to the on the path to graduation? What are the career outcomes? Learn more with these resources.

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Resources

Find how to use our reports, answers to common questions and how to request data not already available

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About Us
About Us

OIEP advances the strategic goals of George Mason University through collaborations and partnerships that engage stakeholders (senior leaders/administration, faculty, staff and students) in data-informed strategic, operational and tactical decisions. OIEP does this by capitalizing on our experience and professional judgment drawing upon quantitative and qualitative analytic information.

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Matthew DeSantis



Title: Executive Director for Institutional Effectiveness

Email: mdesant@gmu.edu

Pronouns: he/him/his


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Matthew DeSantis currently serves as the Executive Director for Institutional Effectiveness at George Mason University. Before working in institutional effectiveness, Matthew taught political science full-time at the University of Texas at El Paso, High Point University, and Guilford Technical Community College (NC), where he was recognized for his outstanding teaching and was a finalist for the North Carolina Community College Faculty Member of the Year. At GTCC, Matthew was selected to lead assessment and accreditation initiatives for the institution’s upcoming SACSCOC reaffirmation, which included developing faculty-driven process for general education and program assessment. After a successful SACSCOC reaffirmation at GTCC, Matthew transitioned to leadership role in institutional effectiveness by accepting a position at Florida Southern College in which he oversaw accreditation and institutional research. Prior to joining George Mason, Matthew served as Director for Institutional Assessment at St. Edward’s in Austin, Texas where he provided support for the assessment of student learning outcomes at the course, program, general education, and university level in addition to leading Academic Program Review and survey initiatives. Matthew has presented his work on assessment at several national conferences and has had his perspective on assessment published in Insider Higher Ed and the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. He earned his BA in political science from Furman University and his MA in political science from the University of Florida. He lives in Fairfax, VA with his two Jack Russell Terriers, Maya and Kerri.
 

From the ages of 13 to 18, Matthew was a professional wrestling ring announcer for his dad’s independent professional wrestling organization (Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling) and at the age of 17 he actually got to guest ring announce for the WWF (now the WWE) at a show at Lehigh University in front of 7,000 people.