Ansel Oakleaf

Ansel serves as a reporting and analytics analyst 3 in the Office of Institutional and Reporting. Ansel has experience leading cross-functional analysis of student, course, human resource, and financial data across the university, documentation, and delivery of process innovations during the attainment of business goals of the institution for growth of academics, student and human resources and financial growth. Ansel enjoys solving Big Data Problems, AI and analytics, predictive analytics, bringing equity to data sets and data modeling, data storytelling, student and faculty success, data literacy, data documentation, ensuring high data quality, reporting, and analysis.

Ansel brings over 25 years of higher education experience to his current role, having been an instructor of mathematics, religious studies, and computer science, mathematics department chair, Disability Resource specialist, and assistant registrar. Ansel joined the world of Institutional Research and Planning in 2005 as a data analyst working on high-level analysis and data modeling of student success, placement testing, building and course usage, distance education, and many more projects. Ansel oversaw the mining, munging, modeling and analysis of student, course, and employee data for research, reporting, grants, and visualization. Ansel took a short break to stand up the reporting and analysis for the Office of Distance Education and Inclusive Excellence. In 2012 Ansel joined the Institutional Research and Planning team at Ohio State University as data analyst. Ansel will continue to work on advanced analytics to meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders, coordinating the submission of external federal, state, and publisher’s surveys, benchmarking, peer comparisons, rankings, bringing an equity lens to reporting and analysis, analyze data to provide statistical and narrative summary reports and provides continual support to the Office of Inclusive Excellence.

Ansel received his master’s of Translational Data Analytics degree from The Ohio State University and his bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona University in Religious Studies.