Tomás Morales
President
Muriel C. Lopez-Wagner
Assistant Vice President for
Institutional Effectiveness and
Director of Institutional Research
Tanner Carollo
Assistant Director
Allan Taing
Research Technician
Monica Villarruel
Administrative Support
Joanna Oxendine
Institutional
Effectiveness Associate
David Dysart; Michael Rose
Research Technicians
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Muriel C. Lopez-Wagner is the fourth director of institutional research at California State University, San Bernardino
(CSUSB). She has 17 years of experience in research, 12 of which has been with California State University, San
Bernardino, Office of Institutional Research. As Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Director of
Institutional Research, she maintains enrollment projection models for enrollment planning and budget purposes, provides supervision and analytic support to facilitate planning, assessment, policy decisions, resource allocations, and creation of dashboards, and manages workflow for the office. She participates in various committees across campus such as Student Success Initiative, High Impact Practices, Institutional Data Team, and the President’s Cabinet. Prior to joining CSUSB, she worked as a director of institutional research and assessment at Pitzer College, research analyst at
Farmers Insurance Group, and research associate at California State University, Long Beach Child Welfare Training
Centre. She received her PhD from Claremont Graduate University in Applied Developmental Psychology, a Master’s degree in Lifespan Developmental Psychology from California State University, San Bernardino, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Tanner Carollo is Assistant Director and has been with Institutional Research for 5 years. He maintains databases, collaborates with various offices, and generates analyses and reports in support of departmental self-studies, accreditation, and other ad hoc requests. He generates the yearly Factbook, produces data for external reporting mandates, maintains the website information, conducts and oversees survey research, and supervises graduate students. He conducts studies on retention and graduation rates, remediation, and other projects. He received an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from CSUSB.
Joanna Oxendine is the Institutional Effectiveness Associate. She is responsible for facilitating assessment of student learning outcomes in co-curricular programs, assessment of operational outcomes, satisfaction, student learning, and developmental outcomes. She is responsible for designing and managing mechanisms and methodologies for the collection and analysis of data for use in institutional decision-making, planning, and programmatic change in support of those units seeking assistance. Joanna’s assessment background comes from her experience as a K-12 teacher where she created and implemented assessment plans for reading and writing programs and differentiated instruction for language arts and social studies. She received an M.A. in Education in Literacy Studies from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Allan Taing is a Research Technician. He is responsible for conducting statistical analysis and departmental self-studies, creating and distributing surveys, training graduate research assistants, and fulfilling ad hoc requests. He writes reports to summarize statistical findings in support of assessment, planning, enrollment management, policy formation, decision-making, accreditation, and internal and external reporting. He has over seven years of experience in higher education in public affairs and academic advising. Allan is expected to graduate from the PhD program in Education at the University of California, Riverside in 2016. He received a B.A. in environmental analysis and design from the
University of California, Irvine.
David Dysart is a Research Technician. He is responsible for conducting statistical analyses and generating reports in support of program assessment and ad hoc requests. He has worked with several departments on campus to evaluate the effectiveness and outcomes of new and existing programs. David began with the Office of Institutional Research as a graduate research assistant. He received his B.A in Psychology from CSUSB and is expected to earn his M.S in
Industrial/Organizational Psychology in 2015, also from CSUSB.
Michael Rose is a Research Technician. He is responsible for conducting statistical analyses and generating reports in support of departmental self-studies and ad hoc requests. Michael began with the Office of Institutional Research as a
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graduate research assistant. Currently, he is a second year graduate student in the Master of Science in Industrial &
Organizational Psychology program at CSUSB. He received his B.A in Psychology from CSUSB in the Spring of 2013.
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