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    Michelle Smith (she/her/hers)

    Executive Director, Institutional Research
    College of Charleston
    Charleston, South Carolina, United States

    Ms. Michelle Eleazer Smith is the Executive Director of Institutional Research at the College of Charleston. Michelle takes great pride in working at her alma mater, receiving her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mathematics in 1991 and 1992, respectively, with emphases in computer programming, accounting, and statistics. She was hired after graduation as a Budget Analyst, and was quickly recruited to work for IR in 1993. She established IR’s extensive data architecture which supports the College’s data-driven decision-making initiatives and official census reporting for the state and federal governments. With over 30 years of IR experience, Michelle serves as a campus and external resource for data integrity, data standards and reporting solutions. She is a SAS programming expert and advanced Tableau dashboard developer.
    Michelle currently serves on the South Carolina AIR (SCAIR) organization as a Member at Large, and the strategic planning dashboard she developed received 3rd Place Best Interactive Report by the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) in 2022.

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