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The HelioCampus Approach to AI: Empowering Higher Education Through Responsibility
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries across the globe, including higher education. For decision-makers in colleges and universities of all sizes, deploying...
Why Data Governance Matters in Higher Education
Data is at the core of decision-making within higher education institutions. Whether it’s monitoring student success, improving resource allocation, or ensuring compliance,...
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...
When Evaluating Academic Operations, Begin With Better Measures
In its DNA, higher education is familial and collaborative, and no members of university communities want to be in their current predicaments. As institutions look to the...
Financial Sustainability in Higher Education: Challenges and Solutions
The higher-ed industry was experiencing an era of uncertainty and change, even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Background complexities of a changing educational...
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...