James J. Mulik – Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Effectiveness

James Mulik holds a Graduate Certificate in Institutional Research from Penn State University and a M.A.S. in Applied Statistics from The Ohio State University.  He is currently Director of Evaluation and Assessment at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, WA.  He has also served as Senior Analyst at Cascadia Community College in Bothell, WA and Vice President for Research, Planning, and Grants at the College of the Marshall Islands.  His national service includes four years as a U.S. Peace Corps  teacher, data analyst, and program leader in the Republic of Kiribati in the Central Pacific.

A specialist in community college planning, assessment, and institutional effectiveness, Jim is actively engaged in the Lumina Foundation’s Achieving the Dream project.  He is an alumnus of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Future Leaders Institute, Class of  2006.  He brings special expertise in designing institutional research studies, assessing student outcomes in academic and student life programs, institutional research office organization, and strategic planning and resource management.

Jim’s expertise in enrollment management studies includes analyzing qualitative and quantitative enrollment data, identifying gatekeeper courses, using focus groups to develop student survey data, disaggregating persistence data, and tracking student progression.

His Pacific experience includes a variety of statistical, research, and institutional effectiveness projects in three different jurisdictions: the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); and the Republic of Kiribati; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.