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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...
The Blueprint for Financial Sustainability in Higher Ed
Higher education is facing many challenges. With HEERF running out, the financial strains brought on by a global pandemic require institutions to rethink how they currently...
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...
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...
Are you in the driver’s seat or is your institution at risk for a wrong turn?
For forward-thinking colleges and universities, Institutional Effectiveness is no longer the small office that helps with accreditation. Nor is re-accreditation their sole...
5 institutional effectiveness trends for 2023
Recently, we’ve been discussing the major challenges of expanding the definition of institutional effectiveness (from a passive noun to an active verb) and what initiatives...
How to Improve Your Institutional Effectiveness Strategy
Much like the Fellowship’s journey to Mordor, higher ed’s journey to IE has had its difficulties. And thanks to a crash course with our good pal Sean Bean, we now know the 3...
3 challenges strategic planning and institutional effectiveness share in higher ed
Institutional effectiveness or IE (much like this classic meme) is not a new concept. In fact, just like the ever quotable roles of Sean Bean, it’s been around for decades.
How Much Has COVID Cost Colleges? $183 Billion
What a year. Higher ed came into 2020 facing its share of financial challenges: a negative outlook for the entire sector, widespread operating deficits, stark enrollment ...
A data-informed strategy
Following the 2008 recession, Frostburg State University, a Maryland institution of 5,300 students, experienced ongoing reductions in both admission and retention rates. To...