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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Karen Webber, professor emerita at the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia, pointed out that, ironically, the study lacked data. I see it in the more elevated role of institutional research.” There’s the opportunity cost of not being able to best serve your stakeholders.”

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How Technology Can Expand Support for Students with a Disability

Symplicity

Roughly 20 percent of students enrolled in higher education have reported having a disability, according to the most recent federal data. Department of Education does not require students to disclose their specific disability, but in order for a student to receive academic accommodations they must disclose in an accommodation request.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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Edify Accelerators: Custom Dashboards for Your Campus

EAB

Edify Accelerators: Custom Dashboards for Your Campus Customized workspaces designed to help answer your institution's most pressing questions Edify Accelerators are templatized workspaces with custom dashboards of flexible multi-source analytics focused on solving specific business challenges.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Advocacy in Assessment: An HBCU Perspective with Britt Spears-Rhymes, M.S.

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

(she, her, hers / they, them, theirs) Former Assessment Professional, Full-time Doctoral Student Howard University Also serves as: Past faculty for ACPA’s Assessment Institute, co-author of chapter in Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education Tell me about your journey into student affairs assessment. How did you get here?

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Success Story: Saint Anselm College

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An “ancillary benefit” to using Via, she says, is it also allows her to quickly share data with Saint Anselm’s institutional research office for various initiatives, such as identifying study abroad trends among students. . If you want a true education abroad partner, turn to Via. That’s been significantly helpful.”. CONTACT US.