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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With a focus on first-generation college students, she has worked in institutional research for more than 10 years. It may be time to rethink the college minor. A Move Toward Credentialing People are questioning the value of a college degree and demonizing college along the way. This shift in thinking is not new.

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Budget cuts hit all colleges totaling over $11 million - Stephanie King, Golden Gate Express

Ray Schroeder

However, enrollment has been on a decline the past few years, according to data from SF State’s Institutional Research. The University Budget Committee held the first meeting of the academic year presenting budget cuts to all six colleges and a 25% cut to faculty affairs. I don’t want to minimize how hard it is to resize.

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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. In the process of developing a grant, if there isn’t buy-in across campus, it can look like you’re just chasing after money in ways that don’t always align with institutional needs,” said Aguilar-Smith.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The webinar, “Institutional Transformation to Support Contingent Faculty,” centered on the efforts of the two schools to improve the experiences of and aid their adjunct faculty. Meanwhile, Dominican University is similarly trying to support its adjunct faculty.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But institutions of higher learning have fallen behind businesses and government when it comes to putting this data to use, according to a new study in Science. Much of what the authors found really resonated with my own experiences at a number of institutions,” he said. I see it in the more elevated role of institutional research.”

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Gates Foundation Awards Grant to Help Universities Make Data-Driven Decisions

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

A collaboration between the Association for Institutional Research, EDUCAUSE and the National Association of College and University Business Officers — funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — is continuing its efforts to improve the way higher education institutions use data to drive student success.

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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. Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents – institutional research, information technology, functional leaders, and executives – work in partnership" (6).