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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...
4 Steps for Financial Viability When HEERF Grants Deplete
The current sustainability of higher education has been an uneasy topic for many in the industry over the past three years. With the unforeseeable challenges created by the...
6 Ways to Use Labor Cost Benchmarking to Support Financial Decision-Making
Understanding your labor spend is critical to financial decision-making. Oftentimes, departmental budgeting approaches limit visibility into true labor spending patterns,...
How to Build Buy-in for Labor Cost Benchmarking Across Your Institution
Labor cost benchmarking data can be powerful in its ability to enable you to gain visibility into critical financial and workforce insights. By measuring academic and...
5 Tips to Streamline Your Higher Ed Analytics Platform Purchase
Your institution has decided to fund a higher education analytics platform and is gearing up for a purchase. However, this decision to invest is just the beginning. Even once...
High Stakes. Higher Education.
At our Community Summit earlier this month, we announced our new tagline as the theme of the event: High stakes. Higher education. The phrase was intended to set the stage...
Unpacking the New WASC Standards for Evidence-Based Improvement
Disjointed and hard-to-access data is one of the biggest challenges facing higher ed institutions today. Or is it an opportunity? Acknowledging your obstacles to centralize...
How to Develop Program Goals in Higher Education
Setting rigorous growth goals for your students is critical to their academic success. Assessment data provides the insights needed to set those goals—and to deliver...
Performance-Based Funding is Catalyzing the Need for Institutional Analytics
The shift to Performance-Based Funding (PBF; sometimes also known as “Outcomes-Based Funding”) as a means of determining state allocations to higher education institutions is...
The Importance of Quality Data Governance and Transparency
As more and more institutions shift to deeper data sophistication as part of their decision-making process, the need for quality data governance and analytical transparency...
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....