Alan Vladicka
Alan Vladicka is the Executive Director, Institutional Research & Planning for Grant MacEwan University. Alan holds a Master’s degree in Educational Administration and a Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of Alberta, as well as certificates in Adult and Continuing Education and Strategic Planning. Alan has been responsible for the institutional research and strategic planning portfolio at MacEwan since 1985. Before joining MacEwan, he worked in the program services division of Alberta’s Ministry of Advanced Education and Manpower.
Alan provides leadership and direction for the university’s institutional analysis activities, including enrolment projections and planning, service area evaluations, and institutional research with students, graduates, employers and other stakeholders. He also coordinates and facilitates university planning processes, including development of the institutional mission, vision and strategic objectives, as well as outcomes assessment and performance measurement. He co-chairs sub-committees of Academic Governance Council relating to student success and strategic and resource planning, as well as the university’s South Campus Council.
Alan has been actively involved in institutional research at the national level, having served on the executive of the Canadian Association of Institutional Research and Planning (CIRPA), and on an ACCC advisory committee to Statistics Canada on college and institutes statistics. He is currently a member of the board of the Canadian University Survey Consortium (CUSC). Alan is the co-author of a history of Alberta’s post-secondary educational system.
