McKinney Austin

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McKinney Austin is Interim Vice Provost for Institutional Strategy and Analysis at NC State University. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing Institutional Strategy and Analysis (ISA), which contributes to NC State’s strategic mission by providing consistent and reliable data to inform and support effective decision-making across all campus constituencies and levels of governance.

Austin also leads the University Data and Analytics unit, with responsibility for university-level data and analytics functions, including the oversight of the Data Governance, Research and Analysis, Institutional Reporting, Business Intelligence and Data Science teams. He joined ISA as director of institutional analytics in 2021, was appointed assistant vice provost for institutional analytics and data governance in 2022, and was named Associate Vice Provost for University Data and Analytics in 2024. Prior to joining NC State, Austin led the central data governance and business intelligence functions in the Office of Data Management and Analytics Services at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

Austin received a Bachelor of Arts in economics and a juris doctor from Indiana University at Bloomington, and Master of Public Affairs degree with a concentration in public policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

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