The University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) implemented its new strategic plan, Impact 2025 and Beyond. “The strategic plan is a real-time roadmap providing guidance and clarity regarding UHCL's priorities, objectives, and overall direction for the next five years and thereafter.” One of our objectives is to improve business and academic operations by providing access to 1) a data warehouse and 2) data visualization tools. 

In the Fall of 2022, UHCL launched the institutional data warehouse with active data visualizations and began implementing the institutional data governance framework, which gave life to Clarity. The launch of Clarity, a collection of software and processes, marks an innovative leap forward for UHCL in its ability to address all data management and data governance needs to ensure consistency, accuracy, and timeliness across the institution. Clarity allows UHCL to reduce costs, transform data delivery methods, and improve decision-making processes through data accessibility.

The Office of Institutional Research (IR) offers several other resources for information:

• The Institutional Research website provides a number of static institutional reports in addition, to resources listed that provide information about the various agencies and associations the university adheres to.
• The Secure Institutional Research Data Portal is available to faculty and staff and provides a number of program-level data as well as other demographic information about our student population. (Login using your UHCL username and password.)
• To request additional information, use IR's DATA Request Form.

If you have any questions, please email the Office of Institutional Research. (ir@uhcl.edu)