Associate Provost, Institutional Research and Effectiveness
jcurtin@Central.UH.EDU

Dr. Curtin joined the University of Houston in July of 2019 after serving as the Assistant Commissioner for Institutional Research with the Utah System of Higher Education (2008-2019). Prior to his work with the Utah system office, he was an Associate Director for Institutional Assessment and Analysis at Brigham Young University (1996-2008), and a Senior Research Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research and Planning at Utah Valley State College (1990-1996). In addition to his work in institutional research, assessment, and planning, Dr. Curtin has worked as an adjunct faculty member teaching Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences at Utah Valley University and Budget and Planning in Higher Education at the University of Utah.

He has earned a B.S. in Information Management (1989), a MPA - Public Administration (1996), and a Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Technology (2007) with an emphasis in research, measurement, and evaluation from Brigham Young University.

He has presented at numerous regional and national conferences for groups such as Association for Institutional Research (AIR), American Educational Research Association (AERA), International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW) among others. He has served as the President/Treasurer of the Rocky Mountain Association for Institutional Research (RMAIR) and as a National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) IPEDS educator.