Technology
The Positive (and Negative!) Potential Impact IT Can Have on the Staff Experience
Vi Bergquist | Chief Information Officer, St. Cloud Technical and Community CollegeEmployers can improve the employee experience, and in turn engagement, by ensuring that staff members’ interaction with the technology they use in their daily work is positive and productive. Employee…
Extending the Destiny One Environment: Leveraging Data and the CLM to Adapt and Grow
Billie Boles | Technology Solutions Analyst in Continuing Education, University of CalgaryCalgary has experienced the recent economic downturn quite extensively and is taking longer than other regions to recover. Traditionally, when the oil industry in Alberta suffers, every other industry suffers…
Maintaining Decentralized Programming While Centralizing Administration at a Cooperative Extension
Neal Vines | Director of Information Technology for Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech UniversityThe decentralized model has been part of the DNA of Cooperative Extensions for over a century. Initially launched to help bring the expertise of land grant universities to end-users across…
More Than an Afterthought: Management Systems and Non-Traditional Divisional Success
Elisabeth Rees Johnstone | Executive Director of Continuing Education and Professional Learning at OISE, University of TorontoFor divisions serving non-traditional students, competition is just a fact of life. Given the low barriers to exit for students, it’s critical for these divisions to deliver a high-end experience…
Driving Institutional Change with Data: Identifying Obstacles to Actionable Business Intelligence
Hank Childers | Executive Director of University Analytics and Institutional Research, University of ArizonaWhen building an in-house business intelligence division, creating a campus movement behind leveraging data to support decision making and institutional strategy is arguably the “easy” part. What’s left is actually…
Take the Hint: Shifting from Anecdotes to Analytics
Chad Rowe | Director of Technical Product Management, Destiny SolutionsIt’s no secret that higher education institutions traditionally experience lag when it comes to implementing technologies and management structures that take over the private sector. Whether it’s using CRM systems…
Making Data Actionable: Visualizations, Dashboards and Leveraging Big Data on Campus
Robert Dolan | Market Segment Director for the Public Sector, TableauLeveraging business analytics and Big Data to drive institutional growth, efficiency and effectiveness—all while improving the student experience—is the gold standard for college and university leaders today. However, as has…
Avoiding Icebergs on Higher Ed’s Big Data Seas
Gregory Fowler | Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer for COCE, Southern New Hampshire UniversityDespite their reputation for being rigid or slow, universities have become surprisingly susceptible to a flavor-of-the-day mentality. Increased competition for students has resulted in concepts like MOOCs, nano-credentials, and CBE…