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    Brent M. Drake, Ph.D.

    Senior Vice President for Operations and Research
    John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education
    Brevard, North Carolina, United States

    Dr. Brent Drake is the Senior Vice President for Operations and Research at the Gardner Institute. Brent has worked in higher education since 2001 with positions focused on institutional research, educational assessment, enrollment management, business intelligence, and institutional effectiveness. Prior to joining the full-time staff of the Gardner Institute Dr. Drake was the Vice Provost for Decision Support at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he served for five years, and prior to that he worked at Purdue University for nearly 17 years ultimately serving as the Chief Data Officer for the final five years of his tenure. Dr. Drake publishes and presents on research on student success initiatives, gateway course redesign, predictors of individual student success, enrollment management, business intelligence and data analytics, enrollment and student completion predictive modeling, recruitment, and enrollment trends. This includes co-authoring chapters on gateway courses in Talking About Learning Revisited: Persistence, Relocation, and Loss in Undergraduate STEM Education, and The Transfer Experience: A Handbook for Creating a More Equitable and Successful Postsecondary System, on data visualization in Building Capacity in Institutional Research and Decision Support in Higher Education, and on business intelligence and data analytics in New Directions for Institutional Research. Dr. Drake is also currently serving his second term as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Institutional Research (AIR). Brent earned all three of his degrees from Purdue University a B.A. in Athletic Training, an M.S. in Sports Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology.

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