This page outlines some resources that I frequently use in my academic work, paraprofessional role, and personal passion projects. This section is a living document, so check back often!

General

• Emacs with Org mode: I know it may seem silly to use a text editor that looks like something from the 1980’s (which it is!), but humor me for a second. What if I told you that you could do almost any common task, such as preparing documents, checking e-mail, and using Google, all without touching your mouse? Granted, the set of higher education folks who would take the time to learn Emacs is relatively small, but I still think it’s worth planting the seed in your head. Emacs Rocks is a pretty accessible introduction to how powerful of a tool Emacs is. Many other folks from writers to social scientists have also created all sorts of resources on their respective case uses. Despite the steep learning curve, I highly recommend Emacs for the productivity geeks out there! 
• IPEDS: It seems that I’m accessing the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on a daily basis. There is a vast amount of institutional data available through this site, which makes for all kinds of interesting analyses.

Data

• Data.gov is a pretty straightforward repository of all sorts of U.S gov data
• Online Web Scraping Tutorial using Python and a library called Beautiful Soup
• r/dataisbeautiful and r/datasets (I know Reddit gets a bad rep, but there are some pretty cool communities if you look in the right places!)
• The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education

• National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

R programming language 

• RStudio is my go-to R environment. Along with the knitr package, it makes for a great LaTeX editor as well! 

Student Affairs Assessment 

• Gavin Henning has created perhaps the most comprehensive compendium of student affairs assessment resources, which can be found on his personal site linked here.