Reports and Dashboards
University-wide KPIs and Operational Performance Metrics
Research Productivity Dashboard
Research Expenditures provides a comprehensive view of both external and internal spending across UTRGV. It also emphasizes the significance of analyzing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), trends, and patterns to facilitate direct comparisons, track growth, and identify recurring patterns in research expenditure data.
Award and Proposal Summary Dashboard
The Award and Proposal Summary Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of research proposals and awarded funds across various colleges, departments, and sponsors at UTRGV. It enables users to track funding requests, awards, and trends, offering insights into the success of research initiatives.
Control Tower
Control Tower is UTRGV's centralized hub for end-to-end visibility and management of research operations, providing real-time data, analytics, and governance to streamline processes and decision-making
Annual Report Dashboard
The Annual Report Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of UTRGV’s research performance, focusing on research expenditures, proposals, awards, and key projects. It enables users to analyze financial metrics, top sponsors, and unit-specific contributions to research activities.
ORU Productivity Dashboard
The Research Productivity Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of UTRGV’s research expenditures, focusing on both internal and external spending. It is designed to track growth, identify trends, and compare research performance across fiscal years, aiding in data-driven decision-making and strategic planning.
Institutional Classifications and Benchmarking
Carnegie Classifications
The Carnegie Classification Analysis Dashboards is designed to evaluate and understand institutional classifications based on the Carnegie Classification framework. It aims to facilitate informed decision-making by presenting a holistic view of institutions' academic and research profiles.
NSF HERD
The dashboard offers a detailed view of UTRGV's expenses, categorized by expense codes and classifications. It is designed to track, analyze, and manage monthly and annual spending patterns across departments, aiding in budget oversight and compliance.
IPEDS
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a nationwide survey that collects detailed information on U.S. colleges and universities, including enrollment, graduation rates, and finances. For UTRGV, participating in IPEDS is crucial for federal compliance, transparency, and to strengthen its Carnegie Classification, impacting funding and the university’s academic reputation.
Research Operations and Productivity
Weekly OPS Report
The UTRGV Weekly OPS Report dashboard provides a comprehensive view of weekly proposal submissions and associated metrics through the Argo system. It supports monitoring, analysis, and decision-making for stakeholders, offering insights into funding efforts, proposal types, and submission trends.
Research Pathways and SPI Questions
The UTRGV Research Pathways and SPI Questions Report dashboard consolidates and visualizes data from proposal submissions, tracking research pathways, compliance (SPI questions), and proposal statuses. It provides insights into submission patterns, funding distribution, sponsor engagement, and compliance completion to support informed decision-making for research administration.
Proposal Approvals Dashboard
The Proposal Approval Dashboard is designed to provide a comprehensive view of all active proposal reviews currently managed within ARGO. It tracks the number of approvals, denials, and pending reviews in the system, along with the response time each reviewer takes to submit their review. The dashboard supports administrators, PIs, and project managers by offering insights into proposal approval patterns and reviewer efficiency, facilitating better management of proposal processes.
Qualtrics DoR Survey Dashboards
The Qualtrics DoR Survey Dashboards provide UTRGV stakeholders with insights into feedback from faculty and staff about pre-award, post-award, compliance, and commercialization services. The dashboards allow users to analyze survey responses, assess staff performance, and explore collaborative opportunities across research units.
Project Listing Dashboard
Project Listing Dashboard
The Project Listing Report provides a comprehensive view of the institution’s active and historical projects, organized across three key areas: Cost Center Management, Federal Sponsored Programs, and Bond-Funded Projects. This report is essential for institutional transparency and effective project oversight.
Project Burn Rate Dashboard
The Burn Rate Dashboard is designed to provide a comprehensive, project-level view of sponsored projects' fund utilization over time. It is intended for Principal Investigators (PIs), department administrations, and financial leads to ensure transparency and agility in managing project finances. The dashboard enables stakeholders to monitor spending patterns, identify potential funding utilization issues, and pinpoint data inaccuracies efficiently. The scope includes tracking financial data from the initiation of each project (as recorded in PeopleSoft) up to the most recent closed financial period, allowing users to make timely decisions and adjustments.
IDC Dashboard
The IDC Dashboard is designed to analyze and present UTRGV’s Indirect Cost (IDC) return expenditures. It offers insights into how IDC funds are distributed across Principal Investigators (PIs), their departments, colleges/schools, VP divisions, and Organized Research Unit (ORU) centers. The dashboard aims to provide detailed visibility into IDC recovery rates, the distribution of funds, and cost center management for strategic decision-making.
Expense Classification
The dashboard offers a detailed view of UTRGV's expenses, categorized by expense codes and classifications. It is designed to track, analyze, and manage monthly and annual spending patterns across departments, aiding in budget oversight and compliance.
Doctoral Insights Engine
Degree Progression Monitoring Dashboard
The Degree Progression Monitoring (DPM) Dashboard is designed to track the academic progress of students who have completed a major semester (Fall/Spring). The dashboard excludes students who have graduated in the current term. DPM App is a PowerApp component within the Degree Progression Monitoring dashboard that enables Graduate Program Coordinators and the Graduate College to directly update student records in real-time from within the PowerBI interface. This integration streamlines the process of tracking student progress, allowing for immediate updates on key milestones and program completion data. The PowerApp ensures data accuracy and enhances the user experience by providing an intuitive and seamless way to manage student information within a single platform.
Earn Rate Dashboard
The Earn Rate Dashboard tracks the academic progress of doctoral students at UTRGV by analyzing their credit hours earned and time in the program. The scatter chart on the first page visually maps each student’s total credit hours earned against the number of years since their first enrollment. Students are categorized into zones (fast, normal, slow) based on their credit-earning rate, helping Graduate College administrators quickly identify which students are on track, ahead, or behind in their academic journey. This tool enables proactive management of student progression and supports data-driven decisions for doctoral program success.
Doctoral Students Lifecyle Dashboard
The Doctoral Students Lifecycle Dashboard is designed to provide insights into the progress and performance of UTRGV's doctoral students. It tracks key metrics such as credit hours earned, academic standing, lifecycle progression, and doctoral degrees awarded. The dashboard allows administrators and faculty to monitor students' academic journeys, identify students at risk, and measure the effectiveness of doctoral programs. It offers a comprehensive view of doctoral students' statuses, from enrollment to graduation, helping stakeholders make data-driven decisions.
Dissertation Chairs Dashboard
The Dissertation Chairs Dashboard is a comprehensive tool designed to track and manage dissertation activities at UTRGV. It provides insights into the assignment of dissertation chairs (primary advisors) to doctoral students, the number of students earning dissertation hours, and the enrollment of students in dissertation courses for the current term. This dashboard is primarily used by the Graduate College and department leadership to monitor the progress of students in the dissertation phase, ensure proper advising oversight, and maintain alignment between dissertation chairs and course instructors.
Doctoral Students Information Dashboard
The Doctoral Students Information Dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of UTRGV's doctoral student population, tracking key academic progress indicators such as dissertation credit hours, academic standing, degrees awarded, and detailed student information. It is designed to help administrators, program coordinators, and faculty monitor student progress and identify areas where students may need additional support to successfully complete their programs.
Credit Index-DI
The Credit Index Dashboard is designed to provide insights into the performance of UTRGV' graduate students in a given academic year and the stipend that faculty are given for their role as graduate program coordinators. It tracks key metrics such as enrolled graduate students number, credit hours attempted and earned, dissertation and thesis hours earned, and graduate program coordinator (GPC) stipend given out. Dashboard . It offers a comprehensive view of graduate students' statuses, from enrollment to credit earned, helping stakeholders make data-driven decisions.
GPC Workload-DI
The GPC Workload Dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of UTRGV's graduate program coordinators (GPC), tracking their work and contribution to the university. The areas that are currently being tracked are dissertation/thesis committee involvement, teaching load, number of proposals submitted, number of awards funded, and expenditures. The dashboard aims to support proactive decision making to ensure proper support are available for the GPCs.
Faculty and Scholarly Contributions
Scholarly and Academic Contributions Dashboard
Scholarly and Academic Contributions presents data of all UTRGV faculty from Academic Analytics, variables such as publications, articles, citations, patents clinical trials, etc.
Faculty Outlook Dashboard
The Faculty Outlook Dashboard contains university faculty information and provides a comprehensive overview of key metric related to currently active faculty members.
UTRGV Faculty and Staff Degree Distribution Dashboard
This dashboard contains university faculty information and provides a comprehensive overview of key metrics related to currently active faculty members.
Research Analytics (Restricted Access)
Research Analytics (Restricted Access)
This dashboard provides detailed internal analytics on research activities.