Sarah Blackstone is the Assistant Director of Analytics & Research in the Office of Planning, Analytics and Institutional Research. Sarah has been with PAIR since October 2022. She is responsible for managing institutional surveys, developing research studies with campus partners, and using advanced analytics to facilitate decision making on campus. Sarah has a PhD from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She has expertise in research methodology, survey research, and traditional and advanced quantitative modeling techniques (e.g., multilevel modeling, factor analysis, generalized additive modeling, machine learning).