Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Other roles Akey has served in at the school since her arrival in 2000 include associate vice president for institutional research, strategy, and effectiveness; assistant vice president for institutional research, planning, and assessment; director of institutional research, planning, and assessment; assistant to the vice president for student affairs; (..)

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University Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Faculty and administrators are using AI professionally and personally at over double the rate from last year, and 93% expect to use it more over the next two years, asserts a new report from Ellucian. The higher education technology solutions provider surveyed 445 faculty and administrators from more than 330 institutions across the U.S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has gripped the higher education sector in more ways than inside the classroom. Although most colleges and universities are scrambling to moderate precisely how students should be allowed to use it, faculty and administrators are inviting its use systemwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

"I am deeply honored to be named the next president of Boston College, a university that I love and have served for the past 22 years," said Butler, who will take the helm of a Carnegie Institute Research 1 university with nine schools and colleges, drawing students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” Growing the diversity of the faculty is among the institution’s priorities, and CEED’s graduate student programming contributes candidates.

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Great College Advice

JULY 5, 2023

Student to Faculty Ratios and Educational Quality When a client asked me the other day about the importance of student to faculty ratios, I got to thinking about other supposed indicators of educational quality. The other oft-cited statistic when visiting an admissions office is “average class size.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education Without a centralized office or personnel dedicated to HSI initiatives, schools must plan carefully, according to Dr. Deborah A. Institutional research teams must be brought into the process early in order to integrate data in proposals, she noted.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But aside from being an effective tool, the advent of the revolutionary technology can help institutions thrive in a changing landscape and improve their commitment to student equity, according to a new report from Complete College America. One popular way of gauging community members is through surveys.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This first post offers a detailed reflection on the 2024 Assessment Institute and the conversations shaping the field. The 2024 Assessment Institute, held from October 27 to 29, brought together a community of higher education professionals dedicated to advancing student success through thoughtful and data-driven practices.

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Robert Kelchen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here, I will start by giving a shout-out to the new Wall Street Journal rankings , which were reconstituted this year after moving away from a partnership with Times Higher Education. Everyone is focusing more on social mobility. If colleges did not provide data, then U.S. News used IPEDS data.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

EQUIS is a prestigious and rigorous accreditation system that assesses the quality of management education offered by higher education institutions. EQUIS is a prestigious and rigorous accreditation system that assesses the quality of management education offered by higher education institutions.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This post is all about HEC - let’s explore its doings, step-by-step process, the committee involved in accreditation, and how institutions like yours should prepare to attain a good grade. What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain? What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain?

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Roughly 20 percent of students enrolled in higher education have reported having a disability, according to the most recent federal data. Department of Education does not require students to disclose their specific disability, but in order for a student to receive academic accommodations they must disclose in an accommodation request.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

As universities “ascend” from one Carnegie Foundation classification to another, alarm bells often go off—particularly among those who study higher education. Towson is a comprehensive regional public university serving the greater Baltimore region, certified by Carnegie for being a community-engaged institution.

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Robert Kelchen

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is World Series time, so why not devote a blog post to one of the most fascinating inside baseball conversations within higher education? The Carnegie classifications have served for decades as perhaps the most prominent way to group colleges into buckets of reasonably similar institutions.

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The rest of the faculty feel like the Black students are the Black faculty and staff's responsibility and that has to stop. Black students are everyone's responsibility, not just the Black faculty and staff.". Learn more about the RP Group services to support your institution. Join the RP Group listserv and newsletter.

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Best Higher Ed Podcasts For 2023. Office Hours : EAB’s in-house podcast features compelling conversations with higher ed leaders in enrollment, institutional research, and financial aid, as well as discussions with EAB’s deep bench of experts. Read on for our picks and a brief synopsis of each show!

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Data is integral to higher education. As colleges and universities continue to develop into ultra-intelligent institutions , data will be a requisite for navigating change and improving student learning experiences. Another factor was that many white faculty members took a “colorblind” approach to advising and guiding students.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

The three share tips on collecting and using data to convince faculty and senior leaders to become enthusiastic partners in the effort. 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. Learn more.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

This article originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed on August 5, 2019. students who are no longer are attracted to faculty careers are still interested in working in higher education. Colleges and universities also hire for research scientist roles, which are full-time staff positions.

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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.) are building a culture of faculty and administrators equipped to leverage AI-powered predictive analytics and data visualization products to strategize more effective enrollment tactics.

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Hossler has received career achievement awards from the American College Personnel Association, the Association for Institutional Research, the College Board, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. in Higher Education from Claremont Graduate University.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

In each session, the fellows gained depth in new topics or terrains, developed leadership skills, and built a network with peers from institutions across the country. Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Faculty and staff can’t access trustworthy data. In our survey, nearly half of respondents reported that their faculty and staff cannot easily access reliable data. “ __ on my campus cannot easily access reliable data.”. How does Institutional Research (or Institutional Effectiveness) interact with your institution’s Cabinet?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

With the rapid changes in whats available in devices and software, leaders of higher education institutions and faculty are being forced to think creatively about how to utilize and even embrace online education. degree-granting institutions offer some form of online education. See #1 above.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Blogs EAB Strategic Advisory Services Extends Breadth and Depth of Coverage The challenges facing higher education have become increasingly complex and interconnected over the past 15 years and in many cases require the collective action of multiple cabinet leaders and divisions to make progress.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

What benefits do staff, faculty, and students gain from better data management? In this blog post, we answer that question with examples of the transformative impact that a data management platform can have on higher education. EAB's data management platform, Edify , is built specifically for higher education.

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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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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 25, 2022

January 25, 2022, by Don Hossler Philip Kotler, considered by many higher education professionals to be the Godfather of modern university admissions marketing, urged professionals in the field to consider the 4P’s when putting together a recruitment marketing plan. The 4P’s stand for: Product Place Price Promotion.

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The institutional research department is often responsible for collecting the relevant data and providing that data back to decision-makers who then create strategic enrollment goals based on this information. . Faculty and Resources. The internal and external environmental scan is a major aspect of effective GEM planning.

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Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

MARCH 15, 2019

by Kristen Lee You jump from one meeting to the next—strategic planning, curricular committee, program decisions, faculty evaluations, and so forth—only for you to have the “A” word crop up on your radar as the next meeting you must attend. Pros Cons Custom fit for your institution. Faculty engagement and involvement.

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Parchment

OCTOBER 8, 2024

So think part of this is a marketing of communications and making sure that communities that are not so attached to higher education, don’t have parents that went to college, that sort of thing, are getting that word.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

Heads of OER initiatives should look to involve representatives from as many parts of campus as possible, including DEI leaders, social justice officers, instructional designers, disability services workers, institutional research officers, faculty, librarians, and students.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In essence, we first learn that in statistical analysis, if data does not check these boxes, it may be “bad data.” We know this well as assessment professionals in higher education. Faculty and colleagues ask, “Is this data statistically significant? Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs. What’s the benchmarking?

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MAY 24, 2024

(she, her, hers / they, them, theirs) Former Assessment Professional, Full-time Doctoral Student Howard University Also serves as: Past faculty for ACPA’s Assessment Institute, co-author of chapter in Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education Tell me about your journey into student affairs assessment.

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