Jennifer Wilken

Associate Vice Provost for the ASU Academic Enterprise, Data Strategy, Analysis and Planning, employed at ASU since 2005 in offices of the University Planner, Vice President of Planning and Budget and most recently, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. Managing lead for Institutional Analysis, the official reporting and metrics office, and Enrollment Analysis, a university team of institutional researchers, data scientists and analysts, working extensively with all university data teams in support of short and long range strategic planning and student success.

Instrumental in the vision and deployment of the Student Success Analytic Collaborative, an internal ASU network designed to connect, coordinate, and deepen collaboration among researchers, evaluators and practitioners advancing transformative student experiences through data. In partnership with UTO, leads the Actionable Analytics initiative to accelerate institutional capabilities to serve students through effective and responsible use of data and analytic models.

Understand data as one of many potent channels for understanding the world: at best, data are catalysts of thoughtful movement toward more precise and meaningful questions.

Current portfolio challenges include: thoughtful use of data as a means toward equity, student-centered measures of progress, and frontiers in privacy and data governance. Gratefully count as partners in this body of work, present and future, those many teachers on the path: her team members, thought partners, analysts, and colleagues in all college and units committed to serving together toward the success of the ASU mission, our students and community. 

Practicing spiritual director certified by the Arizona Ecumenical Institute for Spiritual Directors and now serving as adjunct faculty teaching on diversity in spiritual direction. Fluent in Portuguese from years growing up in Brazil.

Past principal of professional organizing company Purple Buttons, LLC. Over ten years experience in bond market valuation, financial data compilation and systems, and management of software development teams.

Graduated in 1992 from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Mathematics, minor in French. Degree conferred with honors upon completion of an undergraduate thesis: "Constructibility of the N-Sided Polygon." Earned M.A. in Religious Studies from ASU in 2014. Thesis: "Son Salutations: Christian Yoga in the United States, 1989-2014."