TENNAIR 2026

In March, I gave a TENNAIR workshop showing Claude fix a broken script, recover from missing data, and generate a president's report from a CSV. Those demos were a slice of a larger system. This session shows the rest of it.

Union University does not have a formal IR office. I function as the institutional research and data infrastructure layer alongside our SACSCOC and assessment leadership. Over the past year, I have used AI coding tools to build a dimensional warehouse on top of Colleague (6.5M GL transactions, three dimensions, two facts), a nightly Slate-to-warehouse ETL feeding department chair reports, a weekly intelligence brief delivered to the Provost, and a library of on-prem Informer dashboards spanning enrollment, finance, and academic KPIs. I will walk through what shipped, what failed, and the governance discipline (source plus formula plus falsifier, verification before briefing) that keeps the output trustworthy. Attendees will leave with a realistic picture of what is achievable, what to avoid, and where to start.