2025 AIRUM Annual Conference Tentative Schedule
The 2025 Annual AIRUM Conference will be held in Bloomington, Minnesota on
Wednesday, November 5 - Friday, November 7, 2025 at the
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington - Minneapolis South.
Conference Registration fee:
Professional members - $250 (plus $50 membership fee)
Retirees and Graduate Students - $100 (plus $50 membership fee)
Undergraduate Students - $50 (plus $50 membership fee)
Registration Deadline: October 30, 2024
Book early to get your choice of room.
Conference registration is now open!!
Conference materials will be distributed at registration at the conference hotel. Please see the schedule below for more information about when registration will be open.
The conference registration fee includes breakfast and lunch on Thursday, breakfast on Friday, snacks/beverages during breaks, and evening social gatherings.
Note: This schedule is subject to change.
Tentative Schedule
Wednesday, November 5
| Noon |
Check in
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| 1:00-3:00 pm |
Pre-Conference Workshops (2 Concurrent)
- Explore How Explorance MLY Can Make Redaction Easier With Course Evaluation Data
- Introduction to SQL. Jim Sorenson
|
Thursday, November 6
| 7:00 am-12:00 pm |
Conference Registration Open
Continental Breakfast Coffee/Beverage Service
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| 8:00-9:00 am |
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- Sharing Data to Improve Retention Interventions, Amy McGovern
- Does the Early Applicant get the A? Application Timing and First Year Outcomes, Fernando Furquim
- Blueprints for BI: Building Power BI Standards from the Ground Up, Erin Osborn and Jori Nkwenti
|
| 9:00-10:00 am |
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- From Feedback to Strategy: Enhancing Non-Academic Department Reviews with AI-Driven Survey Design and Analysis, Heather Rondeau
- Dashboard Roundtable: Challenges, Solutions, and Best Practices; Beth Danbury, Jordan Orzoff, Mustafa Tageldin, and Sally Gerlach
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| 10:00 am-12:00 pm |
Panel Discussion
|
| 12:00-1:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00-2:00 pm |
New Member Welcome Session
|
| 1:00-2:00 pm |
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- Doing Your Job Amid Maximum Uncertainty; Jon Enriquez, Meredith Fergus, and Nancy Floyd
|
| 2:00-3:00 pm |
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- Transform Your Data, Inspire Your HLC Site Visit Team: Storytelling for Accreditation Excellence, Beth Ellie
- Plot Twist: Faculty Love This Dashboard! Instructor-Specific Data Thoughtfully Designed to Improve Student Outcomes, Kira Guetschow
- Program Review Metrics: Data-Driven, But Who’s Navigating? IR Holds The Map, Tracy King
|
| 3:00-4:00 pm |
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- Dashboard Showcase
- Measuring Impact: Meaningful Assessment for Co-Curricular Programs; Patrick Barlow and Grace Engen
- CP: A Predictive Model of Student Success, Michael Donnelly
|
| 4:00-5:00 pm |
AIRUM Updates |
| 5:00-7:00 pm |
Social Gathering/Networking Reception |
Friday, November 7
| 7:00 |
Breakfast Buffett |
| 8:00-9:00 am |
Closing Remarks
|
9:00-10:00 am
|
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- Direct Admissions – Overcoming the Gauntlet of College Admissions, Sally Constantine and Aaron Salasek
- Impact of Campus Engagement on Persistence to Second Term, Brenda Murray
- Closing the Loop with Micro-Surveys: A Panel Discussion: Russell Dahlke, Kira Guetschow, Travis Ricks, and Trina Smith
|
| 10:00-11:00 am |
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- Building the Plane While Flying It: Data Strategy Lessons from a Rapid Initiative Rollout, Mandy Henkel and Tyler Platz
- Part Researcher, Part Programmer: A Beginner's Journey in Task Automation, Steve Rogness
- Using Predictive Analytics in FTIC Retention - 2 years later, Jim Sorenson
|
| 11:00-Noon |
Concurrent Sessions (45 min)
- Organizing Data Requests for Optimized Student Privacy and Institutional Strategy, Nancy Floyd
- Predicting Our Future: An Enrollment Projections Journey, Tracy King
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