Institutional Research & Effectiveness
Our Goal
The goal of IR is to support the mission, vision, and values of St. Charles Community College. IR is committed to supporting student success, service, collaborative decision making, and is dedicated to encouraging communication and respect by providing data to leadership and external stakeholders in a manner that is accurate, timely, actionable, and understandable.
- Student Success: IR is committed to providing data to support instruction, student resources, and student support services.
- Service: IR is committed to providing superior service to students, colleagues, and the community by providing needed research and data for best practices and decision making.
- Collaborative Decision Making: IR is committed to providing data that will drive data informed decision making.
- Communication and Respect: IR values its colleagues and is committed to respectful and open communication.
*SharePoint is only available to SCC Faculty and Staff
Our Services
We help you design surveys that gather meaningful feedback whether it’s for program evaluation, student satisfaction, or faculty engagement. We also provide support with sampling methods, question design, and analysis.
We use SAS to pull and analyze data from our systems. It helps us create different types of reports like summaries, trends, and comparisons—that support everyday operations and planning across departments. If you’re using the SAS WebApp and run into issues with a report or program, our team is here to help troubleshoot and debug it to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Need data for a report or presentation? We provide extracts from institutional databases and help you interpret the results. Whether it’s enrollment trends or course success rates, we’ll help you make sense of the numbers.
Starting a new project and unsure what data you need? We’ll work with you to define and refine the data elements that will support your goals.
If you’re transitioning from older reporting tools, we can help migrate your reports to SAS, ensuring accuracy and continuity.
Conducting research involving human subjects? We offer guidance on Research Approval Committee (RAC) processes, ethical considerations, and compliance with federal regulations.
We host workshops and training sessions to build data literacy across campus. These sessions cover everything from creating dashboards to understanding key metrics.
We work with departments to align business processes with data systems, ensuring that the data you see reflects what’s actually happening on the ground.
Contact Information
Institutional Research & Effectiveness
SCC Main (1-SCM) Suite 3103
636-922-8607
research@stchas.edu
Hours
Monday-Friday
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Staff
Dr. Christina Cox
Executive Director of Institutional Research & Effectiveness
636-922-8678
ccox@stchas.edu
Swarga Kakoti
Analyst II
636-922-8329
skakoti@stchas.edu
Venkat Saripella
Analyst II
636-922-8337
vsaripella@stchas.edu
Nhi Tran
Research Specialist
636-922-8607
ntran@stchas.edu
SCC's Research Approval Committee
In order to ensure the safety of human subjects of research conducted at St. Charles Community College (SCC), the Research Approval Committee (RAC) encourages and supports the scholarly endeavors of students, faculty and staff while striving to enforce best research practices. The RAC also strives to ensure that research conducted at SCC, or with SCC faculty, staff, and or students; or by SCC faculty, staff, and students adhere to ethical research guidelines.
*The Research Approval Committee (RAC) link won't work unless you are SCC faculty/staff. External parties that are interested in performing research as SCC or with SCC staff/students should contact research@stchas.edu.