Associate Professor Bodong Chen of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction has been elected as a member at-large of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) executive committee. According to their website, SoLAR is “an interdisciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of analytics on teaching, learning, training, and development.” SoLAR has been active in organizing the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge and the Learning Analytics Summer Institute, launching multiple initiatives to support collaborative and open research around learning analytics, promoting the publication and dissemination of learning analytics research, and advising and consulting with state and federal institutions of learning.