Jonathan Henkel Professional Programs Coordinator Department of Computer Sciences College of Letters & Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison jhenkel@cs.wisc.edu
Jonathan Henkel Professional Programs Coordinator Department of Computer Sciences College of Letters & Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison jhenkel@cs.wisc.edu
Fun With Data: Whenever you find yourself amid a dull, laborious, and/or repetitive task, and you think to yourself: "there must be a better way to do this..." - there usually is, and it usually involves DATA
In general, working with data improves efficiency and accuracy while saving time and improving services. When "data" has a seat at the decision making table, potential is unbound.
TA, RA, PA application(s) to collect data for processing graduate student appointments
TA course/instructor matching with preference surveys
TA workload form & approval
- Graduate Assistantships
- Working with data in hiring
- TA, RA, PA application(s) to collect data for processing graduate student appointments
- Collect and organize appointment information, calculate and assess areas of need, track support guarantees, automate aspects of the process such as hire letters
- TA course/instructor matching with preference surveys
- Improve the process of matching a TA with a course/instructor
- TA workload form & approval
- Well suited to provide accurate information to prospective TAs and the college
- Project enrollments to provide more accurate enrollment data when building the timetable
- Wait list management
- Manage wait list invitations based on previously declared preferences and eliminate email madness while building efficiency into enrollment in high demand courses
- Course offerings
- Loops students into the planning process to improve student experience along with enrollment numbers