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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. Parnell begins her term July 1, succeeding Dr. Kevin Kruger, who has held the post since 2012.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

"Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents – institutional research, information technology, functional leaders, and executives – work in partnership" (6). The concept of an integrated model is partially responsible for the increase in institutional effectiveness offices. Data analysts.

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Four Big Questions on Carnegie Classifications Changes

Robert Kelchen

There is still a lot of uncertainty about the final results, but the most concrete change is to the coveted Research I university criteria. Instead of being based on ten criteria, the only two criteria moving forward will be $50 million in research expenditures and 70 doctorates awarded. Some colleges appear to already do this.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. That rose to 61.2% for students who entered in 2017. After completing his Ph.D.

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Making Sense of Changes to the U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Robert Kelchen

Standard disclaimer: I have been the data editor for Washington Monthly’s rankings since 2012. New research metrics! All thoughts here are solely my own. College rankings season officially concluded today with the release of the newest year of rankings from U.S. News and World Report. The reputation survey continues to struggle.

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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Imagine two postdoctoral researchers in an academic lab. However, if one of them were awarded a prestigious training fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, that same postdoc may lose their employment status with their institution, causing a loss of critical employee benefits in their overall compensation package.

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