Welcome to the web site of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Office of Institutional Research and Planning (IR&P) serving the District and Foothill and De Anza colleges.

Our site is designed to provide information, analysis, and reports about the district and its two colleges particularly information useful to the campus communities for decision-making, evaluation, and planning. Whether you are seeking information for college planning, grant writing, program review, management decision-making or even advising students; or are just interested in getting to know the colleges and district better, we hope you find what you want. We are continually adding information and data to the site and continually seek to improve it to serve you better. We therefore welcome your feedback.

Currently, the IR&P office is staffed by four full-time researchers: an executive director, two college researchers (one serving each college), and a senior research analyst. All four permanent full-time staff have been hired since June 2001.  The college researchers are physically located on each campus while reporting to the executive director located in the district offices. The executive director reports to the vice chancellor and chief technology officer of Educational Technology Services (ETS).

During 2003 the office lost two valued members.  Don Malven, a research analyst who had worked for the district for 15 years, retired in October.  His position is not being filled because of budget cuts forced upon the district by the state budget crisis and rising health and benefit costs.  For the same reasons, Jennifer Segovia's position of administrative assistant was eliminated in June.  Jennifer had worked in IR&P for five years.  Jennifer has moved to Oregon and in May accepted a position as a research assistance with Hewlett Packard in their Covallis office.

For more information about our services, call the executive director at (650) 949-6178.  For more information about us see below.

Dr. Robert B. Barr, executive director, is a nationally recognized leader, author, institutional researcher and planner in higher education hired at Foothill-De Anza in June 2001. During the past twenty-eight years, he served as the institutional research and planning director for three universities and, in the 15 years just prior to joining Foothill-De Anza, at Palomar College, a 26,000 student community college in San Marcos, California. He also served as an adjunct math instructor at Palomar where he taught a math course every fall and spring for most of his 15-year tenure. At Palomar, he initiated and directed the college's effort to develop a new vision and mission statement which ultimately resulted in national attention and leadership for colleges to become more learning-centered. Correspondingly, he focused institutional research on institutional student learning and success outcomes. Since joining the California community colleges in 1987, he directed the Learning Assessment Retention Consortium (LARC) Math Student Outcomes Study involving 30 California community colleges and 20,000 students. He also served for four years as a Chancellor's Office state evaluator for the Middle College High School demonstration projects at Contra Costa and LA Southwest colleges. The Middle College High Schools are high schools on a community college campus for at-risk students with college potential. He has been a member of eight WASC accreditation visitation teams and served for eight years on Community College League of California (CCLC) commissions and committees, including its Commission on Educational Policy. He served as Vice-President, Information Officer, and Board member for eleven years for the Research and Planning Group of the California Community Colleges (the RP Group), most recently a one-year term during 2002-03. In January 2002, Bob was appointed as the only community college representative on the Advisory Board of National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Andrew LaManque joined the IR&P staff on July 8, 2002 as the college researcher for De Anza. Andrew comes to us with 15 years of background in institutional research, information systems, and fiscal and economic analysis and policy research. Most recently he has been serving as coordinator of business and finance policy for the Office of the President of the University of California. He served as senior research analyst in the Provost's office at the University of Maryland-College Park for five years where he provided senior academic administrators with data and analyses about campus personnel and fiscal issues; led work groups responsible for reporting faculty workload, facilities, expenditures, and student financial aid data; and coordinated the design of several data warehouse subsets such as financial accounting, budget, and research administration. In his three years at Mohawk Valley Community College in upstate New York (with about 5,000 students), Andrew provided institutional research on instructional issues, coordinated college scheduling, and supervised three staff members. Andrew served as acting vice president for instruction for Fall 1996.

Andrew received his bachelor's in finance from SUNY-Geneseo, two master's degrees in public sector economics and in school finance from SUNY-Albany, and his Ph.D. in education policy, politics, and law also from SUNY-Albany. Andrew is located within the Marketing Office in the De Anza Administration building.
Andrew can be reached at (408) 864-8777 or LaManqueAndrew@fhda.edu

Lourdes Del Rio-Parent joined the IR&P staff on August 5, 2002 as the senior research analyst/data warehouse coordinator. She comes to us with more than eight years of experience in conducting a wide variety of research projects, including educational program evaluation and survey research in a number of settings. Most recently, she worked as a senior research analyst at the Center for Educational Planning, Santa Clara County Office of Education. Previously, she served as a research scientist at the American Institutes for Research in Palo Alto, where she conducted research related to the validity of dual-language booklets in standardized mathematics assessments. Lourdes has made numerous presentations at regional and national research conferences, including recent AERA meetings. As part of her Ph.D. program, she taught undergraduate courses in educational technology and educational psychology. Early in her career, she worked as an academic counselor for EOP students.

Lourdes has a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Connecticut and a M.S. in instructional media and technology from Central Connecticut State University. Her B.A. is in Public Communication, University of Puerto Rico. She is bilingual in Spanish and English.
Lourdes can be reached at (650) 949-7378 or ParentLourdes@fhda.edu

Gregory Stoup joined the IR&P staff on January 9, 2006 as the college researcher for Foothill. Gregory brings over 12 years experience in higher education managing decision support activities and developing research-driven policy. Gregory served as research director at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio. As research director he managed support services governing institutional research, policy analysis, and outcomes assessment. He managed the school’s multiple research databases and provided statistical and analytical support to both university administrators and faculty. Gregory has extensive experience in a variety of statistical methods including generalized linear models, factor analysis, non-linear regression, variance analysis, and categorical data analysis. Gregory twice received the university’s top staff award for management excellence.

While at Case Western University, Gregory also served as Associate Director of the school’s Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI). At REI Gregory developed research programs that brought greater alignment between the university’s academic mission and the economic development goals of the local economy. On behalf of the university he engaged local business and civic institutions to define and develop program partnerships to leverage the university’s unique capabilities and better position the region for greater economic success. He has authored several policy papers and was editor-in-chief of the center’s annual research journal.

While in Cleveland, Gregory appeared frequently on local public radio and television as a spokesman for the university’s economic development initiatives and public policy. Gregory has served on the advisory board of several organizations including Cuyahoga Community College, the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education, the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition, World Trade Center Cleveland and Business as Agents of World Change.

Gregory received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Kent State University and received an M.B.A. and an M.S. in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University. Greg can be reached at (650) 949-6198 or stoupgreg@fhda.edu