Operations and Efficiency
Meeting heightened student demands with plummeting operational budgets in a competitive and commoditized environment is no easy task for higher education leaders. Long-term viability and success require operational effectiveness and efficiency that is somewhat foreign to post-secondary management.
Guidelines to Consider in Decentralizing Distance Education
Albert Powell | Director of Learning Technologies, Colorado State UniversityThere’s enough variation in how universities are structured that there is no one answer to this question, but I will suggest some guidelines to consider when making a decision. For…
Driving Evidence-Based Reform: Applying the Problem of Remedial Math Across the Institution
Alexandra Logue | Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNYTraditional mathematics remediation is the largest single academic block to college graduation. A majority of new freshmen in the United States are assessed as needing remediation, most often in math,…
Changing of the Guard: Key Questions Surrounding a Presidential Transition
Neil Trotta | Dean of Graduate Studies, Fisher CollegeSo, you check your email on Monday morning as you typically do. What do you find? Your current president has announced they will be retiring at the end of the…
From Reports to Analysis: Big Data and Data Analytics in Small Institutions
Ravi Ravishanker | CIO, 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…
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…
Selling Data to the Skeptics
Melissa Irvin | Assistant Vice President for Student Success, Tennessee Technological UniversityFor some, the movement towards “Big Data” and analytics has been an exciting opportunity within the higher education community. For others, the idea of collecting and interpreting data fills them…