How to Transform Insitutional Effectiveness
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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...
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To Open or Not: Case Study in Strategic Decision-Making
My campus is not alone in having a battle about the decision to bring back students to campus, although the decision has already been made and students are back. Arguments...
What Data Can — and Can’t Yet — Tell Us
When my twin brother, a commercial pilot, flies a plane, he knows sensors informed by tens of thousands of prior flights are equipped to predict engine failures. But that...
Cultivating a Climate of Data-Informed Decision-Making at UMass Amherst
Even before COVID-19 became a key part of our vocabulary this spring, data-informed decision-making has been a trending topic of conversation among college and university...
Presidential priorities: Areas of concern for College and University Presidents
Higher education was already facing an environment of rising costs and increased competition when COVID-19 struck, leaving higher-ed leaders across the country grappling with...
How Your College Can Survive the Pandemic
This blog is co-authored by Javier Miyares, former president of University of Maryland Global Campus.
More than a Score: Extracting the Greatest Value from Predictive Modeling
Tackling a high-impact predictive modeling project can be intimidating, particularly for chief information officers and other upper administrators without extensive data...
3 points to consider before taking on data analytics
Having helped organizations and institutions harness the power of data analytics for two decades, I’m encouraged to see higher education giving data the attention it’s long...
The Value of Student Segmentation
Rising competition for college and university students will only continue to grow as the number of high school graduates shrink over the next decade, student demographics...
HelioStories: Craig Rudick on Transforming Institutional Analytics
I first began working in higher education data analytics in 2013 after transitioning from academic astrophysics. My initial impression was, “This is it, huh?” I was a bit...
