Michael ‘Data’ Le is a higher education information technology leader and researcher by day, but by night, he is a data evangelist with a passion for visual analytics and sharing information to create a data-informed democracy. Mike has worked with distinction in the field of Institutional Research/Effectiveness for more than a decade in both public 2-year and 4-year institutions. Mike is the 2024 Vice President and 2025 President-elect of the California Association of Institutional Research. At Cal Poly Humboldt, Mike is the Director of ITS Institutional Research, Analytics, and Reporting. Mike’s primary role is facilitating understanding through data visualization and data storytelling. The areas of study cover student enrollment/characteristics, enrollment management (e.g., admission, retention, and graduation), enrollment projection, faculty/staff characteristics, curriculum studies, graduate programs, program review, etc. Analysis, reports, and presentations inform and advance the University's educational policy, administrative decisions, strategic planning, and assessment activities.

Mike serves as the Chair of the California State University system DataOps UserGroup, a learning community that endeavors to build a collection of technical practices, workflows, cultural norms, and architectural patterns that enable end-to-end, reliable, robust, scalable, and repeatable enterprise data solutions to support data-informed decision-making.