University Perspective

For provosts, vice provosts, and central administration

CEDAR provides confidence in the consistency and integrity of institutional analytics.

  • Are key metrics defined the same way across units?
  • Can results be traced and verified?
  • Do institutional patterns reflect what is happening in programs and departments?

CEDAR strengthens institutional analytics by ensuring that it is built on transparent and reproducible foundations.


What matters at the university level

  • Consistency of definitions and metrics
  • Traceability of results
  • Alignment between institutional and local realities
  • Ability to audit and reproduce analyses

How CEDAR helps

  • Shared, versioned analytic logic
  • Inspectable code and methodology
  • Reproducible results across terms and units
  • Infrastructure for collaboration between IR, IT, and academic leadership

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CEDAR is open source software for higher education analytics.