Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2023

These adjuncts, who teach at multiple institutions, were facing issues of not having their own space, lacking professional development, and job insecurity, Terry said. IPTFES provides part-time faculty with informative resource guides and staffed resource centers that come with lockers, computers, and copiers/printers.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Institutional research teams must be brought into the process early in order to integrate data in proposals, she noted. However, Excelencia is planning to pilot planning grants in the near future, convening institutions and helping them build grant-writing infrastructure. Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia.

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Dr. Al Solano

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram is often an illusion. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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Gray Associates

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Institutional Researchers (IR) have the unique ability to transform complex datasets into actionable insights that drive decisions across institutions. However, the key to their success lies in effective communication and data visualization, ensuring that stakeholders can easily grasp and engage with the information.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

But beyond just using AI to help inform officers on their decision-making, 87% said AI ‘sometimes’ or ‘always’ made the final decision on whether to admit students. Between the two responses, they shared a striking level of parity.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This foundational session, aptly named "Living In Our Values” initiates discussions on how personal values inform work approaches to work and collaborative engagement. This helped us stay focused on researching and creating content and interventions relevant to our outcomes for the series.

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Great College Advice

JULY 5, 2023

Believe me, this is not the sort of information you will hear from an admissions counselor. But these figures do exist on campus, and they exist in the office of institutional research. Note to future economics majors: if you really want to small classes, go to a college where economics is NOT a popular major.)

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As colleges and universities continue to develop into ultra-intelligent institutions , data will be a requisite for navigating change and improving student learning experiences. As leaders make investments to gather, analyze and act on institutional information, part of the data set has to be qualitative.

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Via's

DECEMBER 22, 2022

“I no longer had to copy and paste all this data, taking things from one platform and putting it into an Excel spreadsheet and then comparing it with information we had within the college’s systems,” she says. It’s so simple and so straightforward to draw data from Via for the Open Doors survey. That’s been significantly helpful.”.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

These included student affairs assessment, equity and inclusion, faculty engagement, institutional research, co-curricular learning, and the integration of technology in assessment. This session demonstrated the pressing need for institutions to back claims of being student-centered with meaningful, data-informed narratives.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In fact, in a 2016 study by the Institute of Education Sciences , only 13 percent of students with a disability disclosed. Ensuring that students with a disability, whether they choose to disclose it or not, experience a sense of belonging is critical to the longevity of an institution.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2023

Staff was churning out literally thousands of static PDFs out of my unit,” says Melanie Boynton, director of institutional research and analytics at Reynolds. This is the most data-informed they’ve ever been in their entire lives.” “I’m concerned for students. We all want to see us produce graduates.”

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

EAB · TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success Navigate Navigate is higher education's leading student CRM, built based on a decade of research to improve recruitment, student success, and the student experience. So for me, being an institutional research person, we're always saying, let's address the true problem.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs Lehigh University's data strategy: A roadmap to a university's analytics transformation January 31, 2023 Yenny Anderson Vice Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics, Lehigh University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Edify Accelerators: Custom Dashboards for Your Campus Customized workspaces designed to help answer your institution's most pressing questions Edify Accelerators are templatized workspaces with custom dashboards of flexible multi-source analytics focused on solving specific business challenges.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

The two most obvious, building on the skills that students are learning during their degree programs, are teaching positions and research positions. Colleges and universities also hire for research scientist roles, which are full-time staff positions. Program assessment is another responsibility of institutional research offices.

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Dr. Al Solano

AUGUST 6, 2022

There's also another interesting "sub-culture" dynamic at many campuses: groups of racial equity educators who sabotage developmental ed reform and guided pathways efforts in general, egged on for years by some university equity researchers. According to his research, change in attitudes follows or accompanies gradual change in behavior.

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SRHE

JULY 13, 2023

The initial decisions on REF 2028 (REF 2028/23/01 from Research England et al ), based on the report on FRAP – the Future Research Assessment Programme – contain one surprise and one non-surprise among nearly 40 decisions. by Ian McNay Surprise, surprise…or not.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

To support our partners in navigating both longstanding and emergent challenges, we pair rigorous research and deep knowledge of higher education with expert advisory services to holistically support each cabinet member as a functional leader and to serve the institutional leadership as a whole—we call this Strategic Advisory Services.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Additionally, the HEC encourages collaboration between higher education institutions and industry, supports and promotes research in higher education, and works to enhance the international visibility of Bahrain's higher education system.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Our survey found that the relationship between Institutional Research (and/or Institutional Effectiveness) tends to be transactional, where the Cabinet requests a specific answer, report, or dashboard from IR, and IR satisfies the requests. Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. Creating a data-informed campus part 1.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My name is Sophie Tullier and I recently joined the SAAL blog team after starting a new role as the Director of Assessment, Data Analytics, and Research at the University of Delaware. So my interest areas were still around the research I was doing, but I wasn't directly involved with people. Hello SAAL Blog readers!

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

of surveyed graduate enrollment leaders say there is an increased reliance on graduate enrollment at their institution to offset undergraduate enrollment shortfalls. -->. What elements should inform your GEM plan? Explore this white paper for EAB’s latest research on planning for graduate enrollment growth. . -->. 0 %.

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Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

MARCH 15, 2019

In this guide, we define assessment as: Assessment is a collaborative, intentional and iterative process of gathering and analyzing information to improve student learning. Provides information that directly measures achievement. Qualitative Assessment: collection of information that is non-numerical and interpretive in nature.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

EQUIS is a rigorous and comprehensive accreditation system that assesses the quality of an institution's management education, including its programs, faculty, research, and operations. It has been accredited by EQUIS since 1998 and has since developed a reputation for its innovative approach to teaching and research.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. In many cases, partners jointly completed a project that benefitted both institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

” Excellent idea, but this should already be done routinely by a given college’s IR (institutional research) office. ” Experience tells me that different people will draw wildly different conclusions from this information, but the information itself should be readily available already.

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Users and researchers (including ChatGPT’s creators) are only just beginning to understand its full range of capabilities. You can use a tool like ChatGPT and provide it with your campaign plan (donor segments, fundraising goals, institution information, etc.) third-party software, community information, etc.).

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Many institutions have a staff member whose primary function is to complete such reports. With data stored centrally (rather than in each individual system), changing from one student information system to another is less high-stakes, as the most important piece of the puzzle (the data itself) is not at risk during the transition.

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 25, 2022

It is also essential for universities to collect information on the competitor universities that their targeted international students apply to, and where they enroll. He currently serves as a Senior Scholar at the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice in the Rossier School of Education, at the University of Southern California.

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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. How does this data actually improve dual enrollment or inform the decisions that we make? IPEDS recently released a trove of data around dual enrollment.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As we report out findings to inform decisions, this criteria becomes especially pertinent. While quantitative data typically receives greater acclaim in research and assessment, collecting qualitative, or mixed-methods data is often key towards understanding our smaller populations of interest (Hernández, 2015). Is it generalizable?”

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MAY 24, 2024

I joined the SAAL blog team after starting a new role as the Director of Assessment, Data Analytics, and Research at the University of Delaware. I mentioned in my interview I was interested in assessment, and once I was in the role they asked if I wanted to serve on the Student Affairs Assessment and Research Committee. That's fine.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

These experiences and national research studies revealed that students who feel like they belong on campus are about 40% more likely to continue after their freshmen year. But toward the end, I realized that this research and stakeholder engagements uncovered many problems and solutions. I really enjoyed that work. Tell us more.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MAY 31, 2022

There is a dearth of research on the factors that influence international graduate students to select the graduate program in which s/he will enroll. In top ranked MBA programs, or in a STEM field for example, there may be a single professor that is regarded to be amongst the best researchers in the world in his or her field.

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