Philip Gordon Named Chief Data & Research Officer
Rhode Island Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner has named Philip Gordon as the chief data & research officer.
In this newly created role, Gordon will be responsible for growing the institutional research capacity of OPC. As part of this work, he will oversee and support the further development of the Rhode Island Longitudinal Data Systems (RILDS) and its team to advance data-informed decision-making in service of Rhode Island’s education and workforce priorities.
Prior to joining OPC, Gordon served as the director of institutional research & analytics at Community College of Rhode Island, where he was responsible for providing official statistics on CCRI’s students and their outcomes, supported enrollment management and retention, and provided analyses that enabled data-informed decisions. His work at CCRI supported making the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship permanent, identifying high-enrolled, low-pass courses, and helping more students transfer to four-year colleges.
Before CCRI, Gordon led assessment and analysis activities for a portfolio of programs supporting high-potential, low-income students within 18 undergraduate colleges at the City University of New York. He has a background in quantitative and qualitative program evaluation as an analyst and deputy project director at Abt Global (f.k.a. Abt Associates).
Gordon earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Tufts University and a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.