Activities and Mission

The Office of Academic Planning and Analysis is part of the Office of The Provost. The office:
  • Supports institutional strategic, academic, and budgetary planning and decision making through the analysis, presentation, and distribution of relevant and timely information, policy analyses, and projections of future trends. Examples include enrollment projections, student retention and graduation rates, faculty turnover analyses, tuition revenue projections, and retirement projections, and others shown at this website.
  • Prepares comparative analyses of UW-Madison with peer institutions to provide a context for budget and planning initiatives. Examples include comparative faculty salary and graduate student salary analyses, and student enrollment patterns.
  • Supports the activities of the University Academic Planning Council and is responsible for the academic planning processes (new program development and program review). It facilitates the flow of information between the Provost, UW System Administration and the campus units regarding these processes.
  • In support of planning initiatives, responds to internal and external requests for information about institutional characteristics.
List of Selected Recent Reports, January 2008
Policy on Requesting Administrative Student Records for Academic Research

Staff

Bruce Beck -- Senior Policy and Planning Analyst, CDR liaison, Tel. 608 263-4240

Margaret Harrigan -- Senior Policy and Planning Analyst, Tel. 608 263-7141

Clare Huhn -- Policy and Planning Analyst, Tel. 608 265-9276

Jocelyn Milner -- DirectorTel. 608 263-5658

Martha Casey -- Emerita Assistant Vice Chancellor