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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...
Top 5 Institutional Effectiveness Trends
The higher education landscape continues to evolve with growing pressures. Still, there are some promising trends that institutional leaders should keep their eye on if they...
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...
A Playbook for Creating an Institutional Analytics Program
A large public research university faced with steady growth wanted to understand how to effectively scale its enrollment yield, graduation rates, facilities and other factors...
3 Major Changes to the Role of the Higher Ed CIO
Only 30 years ago, there were fewer than two dozen CIOs in the entire industry of higher education. Now, more than two-thirds of colleges and universities have a CIO, with...
Making Analytics the Campus Modus Operandi
The mantra "data-driven decision-making" is one that institutions of higher education are adopting at an increasing clip. More than three-quarters of colleges and...
A Guide to Using IPEDS Data in Higher Education
As the higher education marketplace continues to tighten due to shifting demographic patterns as well as recent financially impactful events, institutions are looking for...
11 Questions to Ask Your Campus CIO About Information Security
Picture this scenario: An employee leaves for a family vacation and plans to do some work while being out of the office. So, they take their company laptop on the trip. But,...
Is Your Institution Really Ready for Predictive Analytics?
The idea of an advisor telling a student who just received an associate's degree to next enroll in a Ph.D. program seems farcical. But, leaders in higher education act...
3 Questions Today’s Campus Leaders Should Ask
A single piece of data can reveal a lot. For example, whether colleges and universities are meeting their enrollment goals or comparing the number of merit based scholarships...