Student Success Hub | Data, Peers, and Progress: Leveraging the IPEDS Peer Benchmarking Dashboards

Dr. Resche Hines is the CEO of Trivium BI and a subject matter expert for the NACUBO grant-funded project. His research expertise is in organizational and leadership coaching, strategic communication, data visualization, implementation, and dissemination, and facilitation of systems to facilitate and enhance data-informed decision making. Additionally, Hines partners with key stakeholders across a diverse group of institutions - including Black colleges and universities - to support the institutionalization of high impact practices, development of enrollment management plans, data governance, stewardship and security structures, and the alignment of planning and budgeting practices. Hines has a Ph.D. in Educational Administration.

Yesenia Espinal is a higher education data and analytics leader and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Espinal Advisory & Analytics, LLC. She partners with colleges and universities to strengthen reporting infrastructure, data governance, and analytics strategy, while providing institution-side support during ERP implementations such as Workday, PeopleSoft, and Ellucian. Previously, she served as Associate Vice President for Data Analytics at Howard University, where she led the Office of Data Analytics and played a key role in the Workday Student (BisonHub) implementation. Espinal is an active member of NACUBO and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and is passionate about using data to support strategic decision-making and student success.