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Incorporating Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board
Data in an Institutional Data
Warehouse
Dr. David Wierschem
Jeremy McMillen
Dr. Randy McBroom
Drivers for Building a Coordinating
Board Data Warehouse
Outcomes Assessment Climate
 Accountability from Legislators
 THECB Data is used for funding purposes
 Could use for strategic management
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What is a Data Warehouse?
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A data warehouse is a subject oriented,
integrated, non-volatile, and time variant
collection of data in support of management
decisions (Inmon, 1996).
Takes a ‘snapshot’ in time to provide for a
consistent data source, which is often difficult to
accomplish off of an operational system.
THECB Data establishes a historical source of
data that has already gone through data
cleansing.
What Information is in THECB
Data?
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Student Information (001 – Fall, Spring & Summer)
TASP Data (002 – Fall, Spring, Sum I & Sum II)
Course Information (004 – Fall, Spring & Summer)
University Room Use (005 – Fall)
End of Semester Report (006 – Fall, Spring &
Summer)
Faculty Data (008 – Fall & Spring)
Graduating Student Report (009 -- Fall)
Admissions Information (00B, Fall)
Why a Data Warehouse?
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Allow easy access to data from a variety of
sources and platforms with relatively easy
integration
Control for the discrepancies in data by
migrating the management information system
(or data warehouse) from a dynamic data store
(operational/ transactional) to a static data store
Being able to conduct extensive data mining.
Allows for integration with other data sources for
more complex analysis.
Integration
Iterative issues of submissions/
resubmissions could be reduced; thereby
improving the quality and timeliness of
data submissions.
 Strategic utilization of THECB data could
be enhanced if the timeline were reduced.
 Building relational databases to allow for
expansion of knowledge about reported
data.
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Data Warehouse Development
Methodology – System
Development Life Cycle
Develop
ment
Initial
Organization
Analysis
Design
Testing
Implementation
Maintenance
Contacts
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David Wierschem, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems
[email protected]
(903)886-5923
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Jeremy McMillen, Director of Institutional Research
[email protected]
(903)886-5509
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Randy McBroom, Assistant to the President for Planning and Institutional
Effectiveness
[email protected]
(903)886-5926
Texas A&M University-Commerce
P.O. Box 3011
Commerce, TX 75429-3011