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What Is a System of Reference? Higher Ed Data Governance Explained
Somewhere in your environment, there is a query with a forty-line WHERE clause.It excludes study-abroad students, because they broke a retention report in 2017. It excludes...
How To Manage Academic Program Costs Without Compromising Your Mission
When significant financial changes are necessary, an institution must look beyond administrative costs to its core academic enterprise. While academic programs are the heart...
Four Assessment Trends in Higher Education
The word "Authentic" was selected as the 2023 word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary; it was one of the most reviewed words in the dictionary's 500,000 entries....
MSCHE Revised Its Evidence Requirements—Are you ready?
In July 2023, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) launched its newly revised accreditation standards which explicitly call for more concrete evidence of...
How Finance Leaders are Evolving Their Role in Higher Ed
As higher education continues to move into a previously unexplored landscape, professionals and institutions find themselves at a crossroads where previous experiences and...
How to Visualize Data in Higher Education
Accurate, accessible data continues to be one of the most imperative assets available to higher education institutions. While the accuracy and availability of data are...
Designing a Program Scorecard for Continuous Improvement
The purpose of an office of institutional effectiveness is to collect, manage and distribute evidential data that is used to inform decision-making. If the data is not...
How to Digitally Transform Assessment in Higher Ed
We’ve established what Digital Transformation (Dx) is for higher education and why it’s important. But embracing digital transformation at your institution and actually...
Digital Transformation for Assessment in Higher Education
Over the last 20 years, the world has experienced a technological surge unlike any seen before. This new digital age has introduced many changes — some advantageous, some...
What’s measured gets managed: Aligning smart data practices to fuel institutional effectiveness
As we covered in part one of this article series, institutional effectiveness as a broad concept encompasses both the traditional measures of institutional health as well as...
Can Your Institution Withstand Shocks to the System? Accreditors Want You to Prove It
While higher ed is slowly bouncing back from the pandemic, adjusting to the ‘new normal’ remains a challenge. This is apparent in the ongoing exodus ofcollege president...

