About The DAIR Team

The Data, Analytics, and Institutional Research (DAIR) team is made up of professionals with a wide range of experience in higher education settings. Our team has professional credentials and degrees geared towards helping the institution improve through data informed decision making. The team is responsible for a wide-array of projects. See the image below for a representative sample of what DAIR team members do.

DAIR Mission

The mission of the DAIR team is to promote sound analytic and institutional research practices, manage existing and develop new data models, and provide decision makers and external agencies with official and transactional academic, enrollment, faculty, financial, and student data.

Working in partnership across the institution, DAIR is tasked with supporting analytic deployment via the Insights program, surfacing data to assist with institutional planning and policymaking, and responding to other strategic data requests in accordance with the UNT mission and goals. DAIR promotes a culture where employees across the institution have the data training and tools they need to best respond to pressing institutional concerns.

Meet The Team

Jason F. Simon, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President - Data, Analytics, and Institutional Research
SSB - 181-J
jason.simon@unt.edu
(940) 369-8054
Professional Organizations:
Jason is involved in the Texas Association for Institutional Research (TAIR), Higher Education Data Warehousing (HEDW), and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
Subject Matter Expertise:
Campus Culture, Analytic Visualization, Advancement, Student Affairs, Academic Affairs

Jason leads a comprehensive enterprise-wide data warehouse team designed to bring together data sources across enrollment management, finance, academic affairs, and student affairs to promote data informed decision-making within the University of North Texas. Over his 22 year career, Jason has lead teams in advancement, student affairs, academic affairs and finance and administration. Jason brings these diverse perspectives to his work in supporting creative data solutions for strategically important challenges facing his institution. Jason has been at UNT since 2008. Prior to UNT, he has served in various roles at the University of California, Berkeley, Wichita State University, University of Vermont, and Collin College. In addition to his full-time role as Associate Vice President Jason also serves as an affiliate faculty member within the Counseling and Higher Education program at UNT. Jason is a frequent speaker at local, regional, and national conferences on data, analytics, and institutional culture. Jason also is a frequent writer and his research focuses on how campus culture can impact the success or failure of data and analytic projects. Jason is also currently working on examining how to best "future-proof" institutional research as a field within higher education.

Dan Hubbard, Ph.D.
Director of Data Management
SSB - 181-K
Daniel.Hubbard@unt.edu
(940) 369-6189
Professional Organizations:
Dan is a member of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), the Texas Association for Institutional Research (TAIR), the Higher Education Data Warehousing (HEDW) Forum, and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Subject Matter Expertise:
SAS Business Data Network, SAS Visual Analytics, Data Governance, Data Management, Insights Program Training, Peer Benchmarking
Mary Barton, Ph.D.
Director of Institutional Research
SSB - 181-L
mary.barton@unt.edu
(940) 565-3863
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Subject Matter Expertise:
Matthew J. Fields, M.S.
Principal Data Warehouse Architect
SSB - 181-G
matthew.fields@unt.edu
(940) 565-3996
Professional Organizations:
Higher Education Data Warehousing Forum (HEDW Forum), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject Matter Expertise:
Data Modeling, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, SAS Data Integration Studio, Informatica PowerCenter
Rohini Patankar
Senior Data Warehouse Analyst
SSB - 180-J
Rohini.Patankar@unt.edu
(940) 565-3944
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Nadia Mankins
Senior Data Warehouse Analyst
SSB - 181-H
Nadia.Mankins@unt.edu
(940) 369-6190
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Subject Matter Expertise:
Lin Yao
Business Intelligence Analyst
SSB180M
lin.yao@unt.edu
(940) 565-4284
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Subject Matter Expertise:
Rita(Su-Chuan) He, Ed.D.
Data Scientist
SSB - 180-L
Su-Chuan.He@unt.edu
N/A
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Subject Matter Expertise:
Amanda Zhao
Data Scientist
SSB - 180-N
Amanda.Zhao@unt.edu
(940) 369-5675
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Subject Matter Expertise:
Allen Anzo Dominguez
Data Warehouse Analyst
SSB 180P
9403695289
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Reynaldo Quiroz Heredia
Business Intelligence Analyst
SSB 180G
9405653026
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