{"id":45183,"date":"2022-09-01T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=45183"},"modified":"2022-09-01T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:52:24","slug":"director-of-opeir-selected-for-state-educational-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/director-of-opeir-selected-for-state-educational-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of OPEIR selected for state educational organization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sherry Marlow Ormsby<\/p><\/div>\n

For the next year, Sherry Marlow Ormsby will be diving into a deep pool of data from Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Ormsby, the executive director of the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Institutional Research\u00a0<\/a>(OPEIR) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was selected to serve on the Complete Tennessee Learning Institute<\/a>\u2014an organization that examines educational information from across the state to look for student trends in higher education access, success, retention, graduation numbers and other areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an opportunity for leaders in education across Tennessee to get together and really try to understand the barriers to attainment and try to remove them at our local institutions,\u201d Ormsby said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s not just higher education. It\u2019s also K-12 and state and local government and advocacy organizations all working together to try to solve this complicated issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The institute is jointly administered by the State Collaborative On Reforming Education<\/a> in Tennessee and\u00a0The Hunt Institute<\/a>, a North Carolina-based nonprofit focused on education policies.<\/p>\n

When choosing members for the Complete Tennessee Learning Institute, the goal is to select people from across the state with experience in educational issues, said Jamia Stokes, senior director of Postsecondary Pathways for SCORE\u2014the acronym for the State Collaborative on Reforming Education.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe strive to build a diverse cohort of leaders from across the state who can increase local capacity for supporting student access and success initiatives,\u201d Stokes said.<\/p>\n

In the 2022-2023 academic year, Stokes said the Learning Institute would focus on four areas:<\/p>\n