Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

The report, co-published by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, is based on research done on the 66 colleges, universities, and state systems that were part of AAC&U’s first Institute on Open Educational Resources, which took place between 2021 and 2022. It also provides accountability. “We

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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.

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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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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. 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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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 27, 2025

This initiative involved extensive research and collaboration with various university stakeholders, showcasing a dedication to exploring innovative assessment methods that enhance student engagement and learning. It is with deep appreciation that we honor the Community Development and Engagement Committee with this well-deserved award.

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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.

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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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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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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Imagine two postdoctoral researchers in an academic lab. However, if one of them were awarded a prestigious training fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, that same postdoc may lose their employment status with their institution, causing a loss of critical employee benefits in their overall compensation package.

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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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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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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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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. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the final results, but the most concrete change is to the coveted Research I university criteria. Some colleges appear to already do this.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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. They were being punished in some way.

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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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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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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. ” She also advises a casual, conversational and friendly tone in the messaging (for Moorpark, that includes the use of emojis and exclamation points).

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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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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. Photo credit: Ye Zhiguo.

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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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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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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. By bringing together multiple types of data, we can interrogate purely numerical institutional findings and determine their limitations and potential biases.

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

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Accelerators are designed to help leaders answer a common set of institutional questions. The dashboards include templatized reports, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) based on EAB research and experience with hundreds of institutions so that partners need not start from scratch.

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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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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. The saying, “Culture eats strategy for lunch” is spot on.

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