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Grad Students Should Consider Administrative Work

Higher Ed Connects: News

They are drawn to the teaching and learning mission of the institution, its organizational values, and the opportunity to collaborate with smart people. Colleges and universities also hire for research scientist roles, which are full-time staff positions.

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Executive Panel Series: Community College 2022 Executive Town Hall

Hanover Research

Alongside Hanover, this conversation was co-hosted by two-year college Presidents with experience in a variety of departments such as Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, Institutional Research/Effectiveness, Workforce Development, and Student Services/Success.

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Endowment Returns Down for Fiscal Year 2022, Especially for Schools with Less

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study is based on data from 678 institutions holding endowment assets with a market value of $807 billion. Iler, assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Dr. Bruce A. Institutions

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How Technology Can Expand Support for Students with a Disability

Symplicity

In fact, in a 2016 study by the Institute of Education Sciences , only 13 percent of students with a disability disclosed. Ensuring that students with a disability, whether they choose to disclose it or not, experience a sense of belonging is critical to the longevity of an institution.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Colleges and universities generate vast amounts of data every day, spanning from the research findings of their scholars to the log-in times of their students to learning management systems. I see it in the more elevated role of institutional research.”

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. Higher education leaders often overestimate the analytics, data, and information capabilities of the institution (2).

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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. Developing partnerships on campus is key, regardless of institutional positioning or size.

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Success Story: Saint Anselm College

Via's

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. .

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Four Key Elements of Successful Data Governance

Collegis Education Data Management

But, in my experience as a technology leader for colleges and universities, all institutions struggle with data governance. Often, these are folks like the registrar or the head of institutional research who have complicated jobs and little extra time.

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10 higher ed podcasts to stream in 2023

EAB

We rounded up ten of our favorite higher ed podcasts that capture some of the most pressing issues facing today’s institutions. Office Hours : EAB’s in-house podcast features compelling conversations with higher ed leaders in enrollment, institutional research, and financial aid, as well as discussions with EAB’s deep bench of experts. Podcasts are booming, and higher ed podcasts are no exception.

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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

SRHE

There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles.

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Don Hossler named to Edu Alliance Group Advisory Council

Edu Alliance Journal

Don Hossler, a Senior Scholar at the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice in the Rossier School of Education, at the University of Southern California. He is the founding executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. His research program has attracted support from such organizations as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation for Education, Spencer Foundation, and the College Board.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Last spring, when the institutional effectiveness team at Moorpark College conducted student surveys and focus groups as well as data analysis to evaluate the efficacy of student communication, an issue with volume became clear.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Rethinking the Minor Four-year institutions can learn much from the partnership between the community colleges and corporations like the Ford Motor Company. One place we see potential for four-year institutions adopting the strategies of the ASSET program is in rethinking the college minor.

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The Policy, Research, & Practice Disconnect

Dr. Al Solano

The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram is often an illusion. Now I’ll switch gears from researchers to policy makers.

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

EAB

The survey results made clear that leaders consider data critical to the most fundamental priorities at their institutions, such as enrollment, retention, student success. At many institutions, data is siloed, accessible only to staff within that department. Blogs.

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Lehigh University’s data strategy: A roadmap to a university’s analytics transformation

EAB

Topic and problem As the Vice Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics at Lehigh University, I oversee institutional research, data analytics, and data governance initiatives.

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Recruiting International Students: More than the 4Ps

Edu Alliance Journal

And an institution’s ranking is also an important part of risk reduction for international students. How far is my institution from the home of this international student? For institutions that might use financial aid to recruit prospective international undergraduates, admissions and financial aid professionals need to be aware that these students might have no understanding of campus-based financial aid at the start of the recruitment process.

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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Imagine two postdoctoral researchers in an academic lab. ” The loss of the employer-employee relationship upon receipt of an NIH training fellowship is a frequent occurrence at many academic institutions.

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Guide To Assessment

Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

Usually your institution will have an assessment plan template, so if possible, use their template to continue the consistency. Depending on the accreditation agency or institution, each comes up with a different way of saying the same thing. Pros Cons Custom fit for your institution.

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Income-driven repayment overhaul 'a step forward'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Education Department received nearly 13,000 comments from borrowers, lawmakers, researchers and others about the draft regulations for income-driven repayment during the 30-day comment period that ended Friday.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Finally, the competition contributes to student debt, even though the wealthiest institutions do not burden their own students with debt that they cannot repay. Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Transformational Change: Challenges & Opportunities

Dr. Al Solano

There's also another interesting "sub-culture" dynamic at many campuses: groups of racial equity educators who sabotage developmental ed reform and guided pathways efforts in general, egged on for years by some university equity researchers. Solano ).

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The Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain: Ensuring Quality and Excellence in Higher Ed Institutions

Creatrix Campus

This post is all about HEC - let’s explore its doings, step-by-step process, the committee involved in accreditation, and how institutions like yours should prepare to attain a good grade. This includes a review of the institution's facilities, programs, and other key aspects.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

These experiences and national research studies revealed that students who feel like they belong on campus are about 40% more likely to continue after their freshmen year. Higher ed institutions need to find ways to integrate this support and make it more visible, accessible, and normalized.

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6 elements of an effective graduate enrollment management plan—and why you need to build one

EAB

In other words, they haven’t yet created an enrollment management plan for grad programs akin to the strategic enrollment management (SEM) plans most institutions develop for their undergrad programs. Here’s why your institution needs a robust GEM plan—and how to build one. Blogs.

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But institutions of higher learning are recreating what it means to be a publicly engaged research institution. Towson is a comprehensive regional public university serving the greater Baltimore region, certified by Carnegie for being a community-engaged institution.

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Shopping in the Freezer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Excellent idea, but this should already be done routinely by a given college’s IR (institutional research) office. “Credits not accepted for transfer at the state’s four-year public institutions.” Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean You know how sometimes you forget about food that has been in the freezer for a while?

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Attracting International Graduate Students

Edu Alliance Journal

There is a dearth of research on the factors that influence international graduate students to select the graduate program in which s/he will enroll. For decades, my advice to enrollment managers has been to look at the research on what influences the enrollment decisions of high ability domestic undergraduates and assume that many of the same factors will be at play. The permeability of the country culture in which the institution has been admitted can also be a consideration.