Managing an Institution
Year-Round Pell Restoration a Great First Step When it Comes to Student Access and Attainment
Susan Johnson | Director of Impact and Research, Lumina Foundation Zakiya Smith | Strategy Director for Finance and Federal Policy, Lumina FoundationOn June 20, 2017, the Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the restoration of Year-Round Pell Grants, with the move set to take effect on July 1, 2017. Year-Round Pell…
The Expertise and Language Gap in Technology Procurement: Reducing Bloat and Improving Collaboration
James Wiley | Principal Analyst, EduventuresTechnology solutions and tools are more important to the effective management of a postsecondary institution today than ever before, and this trend is only going to pick up speed moving…
Making the Case for a University-Level Approach to Continuing Education
Peter Moroney | Interim Executive Director of Continuing Studies, University of British ColumbiaThe unique mission and value of the continuing and professional education (CE) enterprise in higher education can be both challenging to articulate and difficult to comprehend. This is especially true…
Leveraging Your Infrastructure: Effective Scaling in the Continuing Education Environment
Jeffrey S. Russell | Dean of Continuing Studies and Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning, University of Wisconsin-MadisonWorking adults are enrolling in higher education programs—both credit-bearing and non-credit—in greater numbers than ever before as the changing labor market demands employees to continue learning over the course of…
From Reports to Analysis: Big Data and Data Analytics in Small Institutions
Ravi Ravishanker | CIO, Wellesley College Rachael Coombes | Business Intelligence Specialist, Wellesley CollegeBig Data, a highly subjective term, entered the Gartner Hype Cycle in 2013, and rather than moving through the various stages of that cycle, it fell off the cycle in…
Big Data Versus Small Colleges
Marty Ringle | Chief Information Officer, Reed CollegeWhy is Big Data such a Big Deal? Institutional researchers at colleges and universities have been collecting and analyzing data about student recruitment, retention and graduation rates for decades. In…
The Totally Un-Sexy Side of Innovation: Building an Infrastructure for Big and Better Data
Michelle R. Weise | Executive Director of Sandbox ColLABorative, Southern New Hampshire UniversityOur mission at Southern New Hampshire University is to transform students’ lives. Our leadership team, faculty and staff all live and breathe this mission by relentlessly challenging the status quo…
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: The Impact of a Data-Centric Institutional Culture
Jack Suess | Vice President of IT and CIO, University of Maryland Baltimore CountyThough data has been central to the development of sound practices in management and service for decades in the private sector, only in the past few years has it become…