Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

These colleges and their certification advocates argue that certification not only readily equips students with the real-world skills to transition successfully to their first job post but also addresses many of the equity concerns colleges face by validating the idea that all forms of learning are valued, including forms of skilled labor.

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Darla Cooper, Executive Director of the RP Group , a nonprofit research and planning organization focused on supporting California community colleges to increase student success and equity. Note: While the RP Group is California-based, the research findings and resources are applicable to all U.S. Access the Transcript ].

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

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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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Enrollment In order to funnel student applications through the admissions process, institutions must ensure they are catching potential students’ desire to apply in the first place. The University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Northeastern University has agreed to repay $616,695 of grant money to the National Science Foundation after a federal audit found evidence of financial mismanagement on several of the institutions research projects, The Boston Globe reported.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2023

Determined to leverage these tools in higher education, the University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.) Staff was churning out literally thousands of static PDFs out of my unit,” says Melanie Boynton, director of institutional research and analytics at Reynolds. ‘Why is this a game changer?’

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

The Advancement Accelerator houses advancement-related data, enabling leaders to identify opportunities to reach more prospects, retain current donors, and expand their advancement efforts to inform their strategy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

11.3.8 , which currently states that trainees paid from institutional research training grants, such as T-32 and F-32 awards, must be paid via stipend, not salary, and the stipend must only be used to defray the cost of living expenses. Navigating the Current Policy and Legal Framework.

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Dr. Al Solano

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For example, some university researchers have convinced themselves (and policy makers too) that counting words on college documents and websites is an effective methodology to make assumptions about practice. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

What it is: Chatterjea and her colleagues Nancy Bostrom, associate director of assessment, and Bethany Miller, director of institutional research and assessment, launched the Classroom Community and Connectedness Project at Macalester in September 2021.

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Parchment

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In this episode, we sit down with John Fink from the Community College Research Center to discuss what we learned from the data and how it can help dual enrollment practitioners. It’s a favorite part of my job is going out into the world, outside of the college and visiting. and only about 74 community colleges.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean You know how sometimes you forget about food that has been in the freezer for a while? I was surprised at how many responses amounted to shopping in the freezer; they were requests for data that most colleges already, and routinely, collect. It can be revealing in useful ways.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

Raney currently serves as the vice chancellor for academic affairs at Eastern Iowa Community Colleges. Previous to that at Saint Paul College (Minn.) Known for his interest in enhancing institutional research , he intends to incentivize the community’s fundraising efforts to strengthen the administration’s resources.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

This includes working professionals who want new pathways to graduate school and opportunities to do undergraduate research with faculty close to home, not far away.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

Institutional research staff members collect and assess data about the college to help with internal decision making and to inform external audiences. Their work focuses on analyzing enrollment, staffing and financial data about the institution.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Many institutions have a staff member whose primary function is to complete such reports. But what might that staff member achieve if they could complete reports faster without compromising accuracy?

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

That is a very long title to say basically our office is responsible for institutional research, institutional assessment, as well as some components of academic technology. So for me, being an institutional research person, we're always saying, let's address the true problem. Well, thank you so much for your time.

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Dr. Al Solano

AUGUST 6, 2022

I work with the team lead and institutional research to have the equity gap data ready for the team’s kick-off. Community college students spend most of their time in college in an in-person or online/remote classroom. Infusing equity intentionality in the work is also key.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Building Programs Strategically Online programs generally are created based on an opportunity that a school, unit, or department sees, such as Windward Community Colleges Hawaiian Studies program. This last category becomes especially important given the rapid changing of technologies.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Director for Transfer & Pathways, Central New Mexico Community College University Research Optimizing institutional resources for research growth Nick Hagemeier, Interim Vice Provost for Research, East Tennessee State University Want to learn more about the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Chingos and other Urban Institute researchers found that under the proposed plan, undergraduate borrowers would fully repay their loans. Chingos advocated for a graduated assessment rate that would have borrowers with higher incomes paying a larger share of their discretionary income toward the loan.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

I’ll add to this that, so far, we’ve been talking about research, stakeholder engagement, and benchmarking to understand people. My other favorite example is that CUNY’s Guttman Community College has this great class called the Ethnographies of Work, where you shadow people whose jobs you might want to have in the future.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

The wealthiest colleges and universities adopted and established a new successful financial strategy for higher education 130 years ago, and they can do it again today. Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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