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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The institute's research agenda is ambitious, targeting persistent inequities across multiple sectors including technology, healthcare, education, environmental issues, economics, governance, and the criminal legal system.

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‘An Invisible Tax’: Study Finds That Schools Lag in Utilizing Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There’s definitely risk associated with data privacy. I see it in the more elevated role of institutional research.” The study found that issues of privacy, while valid, are often used in a broadly—like a talisman, as the authors put it—to short-circuit conversations about data sharing. But that should not be a full stop.

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New Briefing Lays Out Strategies and Challenges for HSIs in Getting Title V Funds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Institutional research teams must be brought into the process early in order to integrate data in proposals, she noted. I am confident that there are students that are at these institutions that don’t know they’re at an HSI,” said Santiago. Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia.

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Recognizing Great Work in Assessment: 2nd Annual SAAL Awards!

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

The CCAWG has demonstrated a profound commitment to curiosity by developing a flexible definition of co-curricular activities that considers the students role in these experiences. ASSESStival is an exciting division-level event, with over 150 attendees from Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and Institutional Research.

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Ethicality in academic knowledge production

SRHE

by Dina Zoe Belluigi ‘Research cultures’, and their problematics, have received sufficient attention to have been delineated various definitions by authoritative groups within the university/ research ecology in the United Kingdom, and amongst scholars in our field of enquiry. Qualitative reflections enriched the analysis.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Four Key Elements of Successful Data Governance

Collegis Education Data Management

Data governance has a number of definitions, but I like Google’s definition best. This definition does two things: It provides a strategic view of data governance, and it stresses the importance of the role of principles that apply to data throughout its existence.