Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 6, 2024

Americans Over 50 Hold Student Debt, New Report Shows jessica.blake@… Tue, 08/06/2024 - 03:00 AM Urban Institute researchers say the financial burden not only puts a strain on the borrowers themselves but also the social welfare programs designed to be their safety net. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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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.” His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. New Horizons Graduate Scholars was instrumental in keeping her grounded when the COVID-19 pandemic hit as she was doing research for her dissertation.

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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.

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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

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

APRIL 5, 2023

At Dominican, adjunct faculty progress through a tiered promotion system based on “credit points,” where one-point equals one credit course unit, said Carol Aiono Tucker, faculty affairs and institutional research board process coordinator at Dominican.

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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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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

Higher Education Policy Institute research suggests that holding ballot in summer break may be strategic error UK election live – latest updates More than 30 Tory seats are at risk of changing hands because of students returning home for the summer holidays, according to new analysis of how student voters could influence the outcome of the UK’s general (..)

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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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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. 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.

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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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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

"Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents – institutional research, information technology, functional leaders, and executives – work in partnership" (6). The concept of an integrated model is partially responsible for the increase in institutional effectiveness offices. Data analysts.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Programs include the university’s “earn and learn,” which provides funding for off-campus internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning, and cohort programs that serve particular student groups. From 2015 to 2023, Latino students represented over two-thirds (68%) of the institution’s enrollment growth.

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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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Robert Kelchen

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

There is still a lot of uncertainty about the final results, but the most concrete change is to the coveted Research I university criteria. Instead of being based on ten criteria, the only two criteria moving forward will be $50 million in research expenditures and 70 doctorates awarded. Some colleges appear to already do this.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Rethinking the Minor Four-year institutions can learn much from the partnership between the community colleges and corporations like the Ford Motor Company. The research on college minors and their effects on student outcomes is scant if not nonexistent. Image Source: rep0rter/iStock/Getty Images Plus Multiple Authors: Matthew J.

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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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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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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 final census data for Fall 2023 will not be available until Oct.

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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.

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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! The reputation survey continues to struggle.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A few of the leaders to have attended the meeting included Rasmus Lynnerup, the assistant vice provost of Academic Alliances at Arizona State University; Zun Tang, dean of Institutional Research at City University of New York and Steven Gentile, executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 31, 2023

Researchers found applications’ essay portion appears to be a significant sticking point. Almost 1 in 4 prospective students, 24%, began at least one college application but wound up not submitting any during the 2018-19 application cycle, according to an August working paper published by Brown University’s Annenberg Institute.

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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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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2018

However, an outstanding group of lecturers in Biomedical Sciences, led by Programme Director John Menzies, in collaboration with colleagues at the Zhejiang University – University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE) for education and research, have created truly unique dual award undergraduate programmes in Biomedical Sciences.

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Women today see themselves as ‘people who work,’” says Brookings Institution researcher Lauren Bauer, “and the pandemic was not going to get them down.” Economists warned of potential scarring effects: Once these women stepped away from their careers, the fear went, they might struggle to get back on track.

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“This is the most data-informed [staff have] ever been in their entire lives,” said Melanie Boynton, director of institutional research and analytics at Reynolds. The post 3 ways faculty and administrators are embracing AI beyond the classroom appeared first on University Business.

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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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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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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

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. Read on for our picks and a brief synopsis of each show! The Best Higher Ed Podcasts For 2023.

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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.

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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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Great College Advice

JULY 5, 2023

But these figures do exist on campus, and they exist in the office of institutional research. If you really want to know this information, you need to ask to be put in touch with someone in the office institutional research who can provide this information to you. The administrators in this office crunch the numbers.

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