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‘An Invisible Tax’: Study Finds That Schools Lag in Utilizing Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Provosts could make better decisions if they had better data on faculty research, career interests of prospective students, and research funding trends. Faculty could be freed from the burdens of populating personnel files and reports. There’s definitely risk associated with data privacy.

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Police Crackdown on Nationwide Protests

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the aftermath, UT Austin’s Faculty Council Executive Committee penned a letter to the larger campus community, in which members voiced their support for “peaceful, non-disruptive protests” and questioned the need for the school’s armed police response, calling it an “overreaction.” Protest, by definition, is intended to be disruptive. [of]

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New Briefing Lays Out Strategies and Challenges for HSIs in Getting Title V Funds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Institutional research teams must be brought into the process early in order to integrate data in proposals, she noted. I am confident that there are students that are at these institutions that don’t know they’re at an HSI,” said Santiago. Which ones are really important depends on the institution,” she said.

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Four Key Elements of Successful Data Governance

Collegis Education Data Management

Data governance has a number of definitions, but I like Google’s definition best. This definition does two things: It provides a strategic view of data governance, and it stresses the importance of the role of principles that apply to data throughout its existence. Meanwhile, no one has thought to update their web forms.

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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

EAB

The three share tips on collecting and using data to convince faculty and senior leaders to become enthusiastic partners in the effort. That is a very long title to say basically our office is responsible for institutional research, institutional assessment, as well as some components of academic technology. Learn more.

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The 4 most common barriers to higher ed data and analytics success

EAB

Faculty and staff can’t access trustworthy data. In our survey, nearly half of respondents reported that their faculty and staff cannot easily access reliable data. “ __ on my campus cannot easily access reliable data.”. LEARN WHY DATA DEFINITIONS AND GOVERNANCE MATTER FOR UNIVERSITY STRATEGY.

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Transformational Change: Challenges & Opportunities

Dr. Al Solano

At some campuses it’s the reverse, but by and large, I found English faculty’s culture more ready to implement student-centered, equitable change. Faculty are critical to transformational work. as if their opposition or support of an idea or priority is representative of the majority of faculty.