Michele J. Hansen

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Institutional Research and Decision Support, IUPUI

Michele J. Hansen, Ph.D. serves as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Institutional Research and Decision Support (IRDS) at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. IRDS is a comprehensive institutional research office where members are engaged in institutional research, advanced statistical analyses, survey research, program evaluation, student learning assessment, and data support for strategic enrollment management. Dr. Hansen’s primary research interests are in the areas of predictive analytics, use of thick data (quantitative and qualitative), employing analytics through an equity lens, program evaluation methods, understanding the effectiveness of interventions to enhance retention and academic success of undergraduate and graduate students (applying social psychology theories to higher education), and incremental and large-scale change management. Dr. Hansen received her baccalaureate degree in psychology from Michigan State University and master’s and doctoral degrees in social psychology from Loyola University Chicago.  

Exploring and Communicating Data for Test-Optional Decisions