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. It also provides accountability. “We

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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. In the process of developing a grant, if there isn’t buy-in across campus, it can look like you’re just chasing after money in ways that don’t always align with institutional needs,” said Aguilar-Smith.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2023

The webinar, “Institutional Transformation to Support Contingent Faculty,” centered on the efforts of the two schools to improve the experiences of and aid their adjunct faculty. Meanwhile, Dominican University is similarly trying to support its adjunct faculty.

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Faculty Professional Development Government Private Universities 245

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Although the data represents only about 20% of non-profit colleges and universities, those institutions own about 99% of the endowment wealth in higher education, according to calculations by Dr. Sarah M. Iler, assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Dr. Bruce A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. Such support has grown over the last three decades. Honestly, I’m still amazed every single day about what we have now,” Watford says. “It Watford says. Now, I try to give back.

Engineering 289

Engineering Development and Fund Raising Computers and Informational Technology Recruitment 289

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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Budget and Finance Management Institutional Research Higher Education Research 98

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. They must present evidence of effectiveness in institutional practices serving Latino students.

Marketing and Communication Services 335

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents – institutional research, information technology, functional leaders, and executives – work in partnership" (6).

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Computers and Informational Technology Institutional Research Higher Education Research 98

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

A collaboration between the Association for Institutional Research, EDUCAUSE and the National Association of College and University Business Officers — funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — is continuing its efforts to improve the way higher education institutions use data to drive student success.

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Recruitment Institutional Research Higher Education Research 88

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 27, 2025

ASSESStival is an exciting division-level event, with over 150 attendees from Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and Institutional Research. We also want to thank everyone who nominated someone or themselves; your hard work is so meaningful to your institution and also to us.

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Student Affairs Social Justice Health Services Residence Life 90

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.

Professional Development 115

Professional Development DEI Government Higher Education 115

University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

An EDUCAUSE poll that surveyed institutional leaders, technology professionals, and other campus stakeholders found that 67% are optimistic or very optimistic about using AI. It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has gripped the higher education sector in more ways than inside the classroom.

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Administration Faculty Admissions Enrollment Management 122

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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. It was a fantastic opportunity to connect in person with colleagues from across the field and strengthen professional networks.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

However, enrollment has been on a decline the past few years, according to data from SF State’s Institutional Research. The University Budget Committee held the first meeting of the academic year presenting budget cuts to all six colleges and a 25% cut to faculty affairs. I don’t want to minimize how hard it is to resize.

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Robert Kelchen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I don’t know if colleges are advantaged or disadvantaged by reporting Common Data Set data, but I would bet that institutional research offices around the country are running their analyses right now to see which method gives them a strategic advantage. New research metrics! If colleges did not provide data, then U.S.

Financial Aid 124

Financial Aid Hospitality Faculty Alumni 124

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

” The loss of the employer-employee relationship upon receipt of an NIH training fellowship is a frequent occurrence at many academic institutions. The policy also precludes institutions from using grant funds to pay for benefits other than health insurance. Not a New Problem. Navigating the Current Policy and Legal Framework.

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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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Great College Advice

JULY 5, 2023

Yet I could cite numerous examples of professors I have known who stand and deliver lectures from prepared notes to a class of seven students. Just because a class is small doesn’t mean it’s any good. Here quality of the individual course is not the issue–it’s the popularity of the major that may affect class size.

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Robert Kelchen

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Carnegie classifications have served for decades as perhaps the most prominent way to group colleges into buckets of reasonably similar institutions. 1) This changes incentives for research universities, and expect plenty of strategy to reach R1 status. 2) Will Research I status have less meaning as the club expands?

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Via's

DECEMBER 22, 2022

An “ancillary benefit” to using Via, she says, is it also allows her to quickly share data with Saint Anselm’s institutional research office for various initiatives, such as identifying study abroad trends among students. . It was archaic and antiquated and awful,” she recalls. “I That’s been significantly helpful.”.

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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. Click here to submit.

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SRHE

AUGUST 9, 2024

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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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This included speaking with professionals from Institutional Research on safe data storage and management practices, as well as discussion and reflection about accessible and equitable data collection and distribution practices and sharing of results with regards to changes made to programs and services.

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Professional Development Student Affairs Program Development Higher Education 97

EAB

JANUARY 10, 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. Each podcast has a different focus, from enrollment marketing strategies to IT & tech to student-centricity.

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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. “There are some foundational hurdles that most institutions haven’t figured out how to get over yet.” . ‘Why is this a game changer?’

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Learn more about the RP Group services to support your institution. About Dr. Darla Cooper Dr. Darla Cooper has worked in the community college system for over 20 years, having previously held institutional research director positions at a variety of colleges. A feeling that the college had abandoned them or given up on them.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

There is that conjectural concern that as universities become more research-oriented, or move “up” in Carnegie classification, seeking R-2 (high research activity) or R-1 (very high research activity) status, they become less focused on students, more exclusive and less responsive to their communities’ needs.

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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. And one thing I'd like to add, Dr. Crockem mentioned what's unique about our institution. And again, I'm excited to be here. It's been some time.

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Marketing and Communication Services Faculty Utilities Institutional Research 94

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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Marketing and Communication Services Financial Aid Community College Support Services 104

EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Click on each accordion below to learn more about an Accelerator and how it can support your institution’s data needs. Automated data refreshes : Schedule data to be refreshed to your Accelerator so that it is always up-to-date. This page describes the available Accelerators and the list will continue to grow.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In this post, Professor Mike Shipston, Professor Sue Welburn, Dr John Menzies, and Cristina Matthews, showcase the award-winning Zhejiang University – University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE) … It is not every day that a transformation in transnational educational programmes is realised.

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Education Research Institutional Research Medical 52

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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Collegis Education Data Management

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Good policies codify the principles of data governance and provide a means for enforcement of the policy so that departments know and understand the importance of working together to maintain data integrity. Often, these are folks like the registrar or the head of institutional research who have complicated jobs and little extra time.

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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 a numbers person myself, it’s an exciting time. The focus is often too oriented on what is or can be measured and not necessarily on what matters.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There has been growing concern over the last twenty years, however, that some RECs have become such powerful regulatory bodies that they have almost complete control over what institutional research is conducted, as well as how and where it is undertaken. The REC was therefore required to trust its researchers to act with integrity.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I also found it noteworthy that institutions face the same data and analytics challenges as their peers—and are looking for ways over these hurdles. Ensure that your institution follows documented data governance protocols and protects data privacy. FIND AND FIX THE GAPS IN YOUR INSTITUTION’S DATA STRATEGY. Read the report.

Industry 52

Industry Institutional Research Higher Education Government 52

SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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