About me
Ruirui Sun was a Cohort 14 SDP Fellow. She is passionate about applying and advancing data analytics in higher education, informing policy development, and improving data literacy among higher education professionals, with the ultimate goal of improving the experiences and outcomes for all students, faculty, and staff.
As the Associate in Assessment and Data Analytics, she serves as a key adviser to the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the State University of New York (SUNY) on the measurement of diversity, equity, and inclusion progress across the SUNY campuses, particularly by creating dashboards and ongoing tracking and analysis of crucial diversity, equity, and inclusion indicators at SUNY System Administration and on the campuses.
She currently leads several data and research projects at SUNY, including developing a data dashboard infrastructure to disseminate results from SUNY’s first systemwide DEI Campus Climate Survey, a multi-year evaluation of SUNY’s Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), and the ongoing data tracking and analysis of the SUNY-OMH (New York State Office of Mental Health) Mental Health Scholarship Pipeline Program.
Ruirui earned her PhD in Educational Policy and Leadership from the University at Albany in 2023. Her doctoral research characterizes patterns in the timing of college decisions, with respect to initial enrollment, interruptions, and graduation (or non-completion), and investigates the relationship between college timing decisions and individuals’ earnings trajectories from high school graduation into mid-career. For this work, she has won the highly competitive AERA (American Educational Research Association) dissertation grant, funded by the National Science Foundation.
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