2021 Data Summit
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We hope you were able to participate in the Penn State Data Summit help February 3-4, 2021. Focusing on how we leverage data to support decisions, participants found useful information and had opportunities to network with members from the university community.
We are privileged to have two informative and thought-provoking keynote speakers. Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer, University of California San Diego, discussed emerging conceptual design inversions, the challenges in adopting them and what institutions need to consider to enable the adoption of new practices in “Promise, Challenge and Fulfillment in Next Generation Analytics: Tales from the Field.” Deborah Santiago, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Excelencia in Education, shared her perspectives on moving from goals of educating all students and closing equity gaps to action in “From Aspiration to Actualization: Closing Equity Gaps and the Potential of Data.”
Session Recordings
Most of the sessions were recorded and are available here
Agenda
Review the schedule of events across three tracks: Evolving our Data Culture, Exemplars of Data & Software, and Tools & Practices.
Participant Portal
Registered participants still have access to review session descriptions and speaker bios, and to submit session and summit feedback.
Keynote Speakers
Vince Kellen, Ph.D
Chief Information Officer
University of California San Diego
Dr. Vince Kellen is the Chief Information Officer for University of California, San Diego. He is responsible for the enterprise data and information services for UC San Diego. He directs the teams within the UC San Diego IT Services unit providing data integration and data preparation services. He has 35 years of experience in designing, developing and directing the operations of data analytic systems in multiple industries and within higher education. He has been a PI and co-PI on projects for NSF directorates in the areas of cyberinfrastructure, advanced computing, and cloud computing for research.
He is a board member for IMS Global, a non-profit education industry standards and collaboration organization body that enables academic and educational technology interoperability. He is a Senior Fellow with Cutter Consortium, an IT industry strategy and analysis firm where he writes on strategy and IT topics. Dr. Kellen is in the IDG/CIO Executive Council CIO Hall of Fame (2019 inductee), a three-time winner of the CIO 100 award, a recipient of InformationWeek’s “Chiefs of the Year” in 2013, recipient of Computerworld “Honors Laureate” award in 2013, and was one of four recipients selected globally for Dell’s 2012 “Transformational CIO” award.
Deborah A. Santiago
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Excelencia in Education
Deborah A. Santiago is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Excelencia in Education, America’s premier authority on efforts accelerating Latino student success in higher education. As an innovator, thought leader, and educational visionary, she has researched and identified evidence-based practices and strategies for more than 20 years at national levels to improve educational opportunities and success to better SERVE Latino, and all, students in higher education.
She co-founded Excelencia in Education in 2004 to inform policy, compel action, and collaborate with those ready to accelerate student success with an unapologetic Latino lens. Among her many contributions, Deborah has worked in federal government addressing legislative issues in higher education at the Congressional Research Service and informed program and budget efforts in the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. She also worked with federal agencies and communities across the nation to improve awareness and education opportunities for Latinos as the Deputy Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. Among Deborah’s community efforts, she has provided program design and implementation for dropout prevention and parental engagement for the ASPIRA Association and translated data for community engagement as the Vice President for Research and Data at the Los Angeles Alliance for Student Achievement.
Deborah has been referred to by media as a national expert on Latino higher education and her respected work has been cited in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Economist, Forbes, NBC News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Hechinger Report, and Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Recently, she was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve on the California Higher Education Recovery with Equity Taskforce. She serves on the Board of Visitors for the University of Mary Washington, her Alma Mater, as well as the Advisory Board of TheDream.US, and the Board of Directors for Higher Achievement.