Decision Support/Data Warehousing Constituent Group

The EDUCAUSE Decision Support (DS) constituent group discusses organizational and technological problems, issues, tools, and solutions for managerial decision–making, strategic planning, and information reporting. The DS group also explores topics related to two predecessor constituent groups, Executive Information Systems (EIS) and Institutional Research (IR). The goal is for members to share with their colleagues lessons learned and best practices in decision–support tools and processes. Decision support is broadly defined, and includes topics on EIS, data warehousing, data mining, data marts, and OLAP. This is an opportunity to share the "good, bad, and ugly" of decision support with other information professionals. This group meets at the EDUCAUSE annual conference and uses the electronic discussion list to discuss issues throughout the year.

Leaders

• Betsy Blythe, Director, General Enterprise Applications, Virginia Tech, bblythe@vt.edu
• Ora Fish, Associate Director, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, fisho2@rpi.edu

Discussion List (DS)

• Join or Leave List
• Send Message to List (subscribers only)
• Participation Guidelines
• List Archives (fully searchable)

EDUCAUSE Resources

• EDUCAUSE Connect
  • Search EDUCAUSE Resources
  • Browse EDUCAUSE Connect on the topic of decision support or data warehouse
  • Effective Practice: The George Washington University Student Data Mart, The George Washington University
• Member Directory
• Job Opportunities
• Policy Initiatives

Additional Resources

• Data Warehousing in Higher Education

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Meeting Minutes

• EDUCAUSE 2003 [PDF 44 KB]
• EDUCAUSE 2002 [PDF 152 KB]
• EDUCAUSE 2001 [PDF 125 KB]
• EDUCAUSE 2000 [PDF 105 KB]
• EDUCAUSE 1999 [PDF 75 KB]
• CAUSE97 [PDF 35 KB]