Mariah Coughlin Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

At EAB, I lead both qualitative and quantitative research into higher education trends. As a project lead, I've addressed industry challenges through 2024 and conducted a detailed study of the U.S. master's market. I also worked as a technical lead on building analytical reports for undergraduate enrollment using tools like Python and R. I also have expertise in survey design, notably crafting a recruitment and retention survey for our strategic HR research, and often serve as a contact for survey development within the department.

Washington Dc

Conduct quantitative and qualitative research on education policy issues for research forum clients. Write and edit external deliverables, including blog posts, insight pieces, white papers, benchmarking reports, presentations, and other research documents.Past projects: forecasting key performance indicators, leading focus groups with university cabinet members on the impact of COVID-19 in the education sector, and identifying trends and opportunities in the graduate market.

Provide data analysis support to CEO John Silvia by creating graphs for quarterly FRED data and compiling data for annual forecasts.Provide statistical support by testing time series data for structural breaks, Grainger-causality, and Bayesian inference.

Delivered two sections of ECO 2023: Principles of Microeconomics in Fall 2020.Teaching two sections of ECO 2023: Principles of Microeconomics in Spring 2021.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Provided data analysis support to the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Dvision (PHND), focusing primarily on a randomized control trial in Ethiopia studying poverty graduation models and ongoing COVID-19 phone surveys. Conducted data checks for survey team data imports, created graphs for learning briefs and presentations, and evaluated corrupted and missing data.Worked with the Research Analyst to coordinate the development of COVID-19 phone survey questionnaires.Provided data support to the mNutrition agricultural information interventions in Ghana and Tanzania to publish publicly available databases in connection with all relevant research publications.

Promoted from Senior Finance Professional position.Held weekly metrics meetings with senior leadership to explore and discuss college strategic decision-making. Example topics include student retention, academic advising, scholarship allocations, maximizing performance under the CU budget model, how to measure event/sponsorship success, phasing out low-enrolled majors, and increasing student applications to CAM programs.Built and maintained accurate reporting on all College of Arts Media metrics using the CU Central Information Warehouse and Cognos reporting system.Provided statistical modeling, analysis and data interpretation for the College of Arts & Media’s creative industries research and other faculty research as needed.

Greater Denver Area

Promoted from Finance and Accounting Professional.Performed daily and recurring financial functions and analysis for the College of Arts & Media. Tasks included, but are not limited to, maintaining budget control and monitoring and reconciling accounts in compliance with GAAP, State, Federal, and grant-specific expenditure guidelines.Conducted in-depth cost-benefit analyses of College areas, including computer scheduling and software needs for 19 student lab spaces, break even points for new course and degree offerings, and other data driven projects as needed.

Greater Denver Area

Performed daily and recurring financial functions and analysis for the College of Arts & Media. Tasks include, but are not limited to, maintaining budget control, monitoring and reconciling accounts, processing transactions, and reporting and providing analysis on CAM budgets.

University Of Central Florida

Track and write on the business developments of the major metropolitan areas of Florida.Led project to transfer software systems from Aremos to Eviews by coding and developing new graphs for the Eviews operating system.Analyze data and proof edit for all quarterly national and statewide economic forecasts.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics And Economics