Technology
Where Technology Goes, So Too Must Culture
Heather Chakiris | Director of Student and Alumni Services in Extension and Global Online, UC Los AngelesThe shift to a student-centric institutional culture shows many different forms, from changes in curriculum design to shifts in service availability to the improved leveraging of data. From the perspective…
Supporting Organizational Effectiveness with an Operational Health Check
Robert Wensveen | Associate Director of Continuing Education, University of CalgaryA lot can change in nine years, even though it might not seem so long ago. In 2008, No Country for Old Men won the Oscar for Best Picture. Beijing…
Visualization and the Three V’s: Managing and Leveraging Data in Enrollment Management
Christina Trombley | Assistant Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Services, University of Wisconsin-Green BayUniversities, especially public institutions, collect a lot of data. Between applications, enrollments, financial aid, website clicks, social media posts and everything else, data can be collected, analyzed, and reported. Nonetheless,…
The Impact of Offering an Amazon-Like Experience in the Non-Credit Space
Brandon Gregory | Director of Marketing in Professional and Continuing Education, University of San DiegoStudents today—both traditional and non-traditional—have extremely high expectations of their universities when it comes to the digital environment and experience. These expectations are shaped by the experience crafted and delivered…
Beyond Security: Overcoming Additional Risks Associated with Institutional Data Analytics
James Wiley | Principal Analyst, EduventuresThe advantages of leveraging Big Data in the higher education context are becoming increasingly clear to college and university leaders. From helping to drive student persistence and success to informing…
The Impact of Big Data on Student Privacy and How Universities Must React
Joel Rosenblatt | Director of Computer and Network Security, Columbia UniversityAs you go about your normal life, everything that you do online leaves “digital breadcrumbs” that can be collected and analyzed. The common buzzwords for this process are Big Data,…
Big Data and Big Risks: Protecting Higher Education from Cyberattack
Teju Herath | Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Goodman School of Business, Brock UniversityColleges and universities today are collecting and storing huge amounts of data. Leading institutions are also analyzing and leveraging data for all kinds of different purposes, and the number of…
Using Data to Drive Decision-Making
Hadassah Yang | Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Research and Planning, Brandman UniversityRecognition of the value data brings to the table is increasing across the higher education space, but the processes behind that are still relatively fresh in this industry. For decades,…