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USC Upstate CASE STUDY

From Static Spreadsheets to Strategic Action

How USC Upstate turned their manual maze of spreadsheets into dynamic insights to optimize class sizes and course sections.

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Introduction to USC Upstate

When the University of South Carolina Upstate began a comprehensive institutional program review, they quickly discovered the limits of traditional tools. Months of manual analysis yielded static spreadsheets—useful for a moment, but outdated by the time decisions had to be made.


Like many institutions, USC Upstate needed a better way to understand the cost and performance of academic programming, from the department level down to individual courses. That need sparked a partnership with HelioCampus—and a transformational shift in how decisions are made.

 

The Solution

By adopting HelioCampus Academic Performance Management (APM), USC Upstate was able to replace inefficient, spreadsheet-based program reviews with dynamic, more accessible dashboards. This enabled the institution to:

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Introduce new dynamic dashboards to replace static spreadsheets

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Unify academic and financial data into a single source of truth

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Forecast toward vital metrics such as total credit hours, net margins, and institutional ROI

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Empower deans to lead collaborative change

"Anyone who was in any leadership level rapidly came to the epiphany that we need something better. We can utilize our resources more effectively if we are analyzing insights and operationalizing actions and responses to those insights rather than chasing down spreadsheets.”
Dr. Celena Kusch
Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Academic Innovation and Faculty Support

The Results

HelioCampus Academic Performance Management provided a complete framework to enable USC Upstate to uncover and measure academic costs and efficiencies. This enabled the institution to:

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Easily see areas of high productivity and visually map the impact of departmental efforts to increase efficiency.

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Gameplan various hypotheticals - including the potential impact of changes in course offerings or faculty workload.

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View data year over year, captured side-by-side, to show impact and the dollar amount value of that work.

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Determine class fill rate to optimize the number of class sections delivered and identify ways to balance out college resources.

Make smarter decisions with the data you already have

Download the full case study to learn more about why USC Upstate chose HelioCampus to help them transform their data and uncover academic program insights across campus.

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