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Developing Young Assessment Professionals: A Year-long Professional Development Series for Assessment Graduate Assistants

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Graduate school is a transformative journey, providing students with the opportunity to delve deeper into their chosen fields, cultivate skills, and make valuable connections. Another area that we found important to emphasize with the GAs during the series included discussions around ethical assessment practices.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. The focus groups had revealed students felt emails were “often long-winded and full of academic jargon that make them hard to read,” Whittington-Studer shares.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Assistant Vice President, Institutional Strategy & Effectiveness, Mississippi State University University Research Supporting undergraduate research and challenging assumptions R.

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Guide To Assessment

Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

To find the right instrument for the job, consider the following: Commercially available tests are things such as the National Survey of Student Engagement and ETS Major Field Tests. Tip : Most colleges/universities have an Office of Institutional Research (see Section 4). Where will the data be collected?

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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.

I’ll add to this that, so far, we’ve been talking about research, stakeholder engagement, and benchmarking to understand people. I believe the Survey of Student Engagement started tracking belonging two years ago. I suspect that being able to provide those services for students is another good bucket.

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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

EAB

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. So for me, being an institutional research person, we're always saying, let's address the true problem. Well, thank you so much for your time.

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Transformational Change: Challenges & Opportunities

Dr. Al Solano

It’s a similar process with inquiry & action teams, except that we ask for student input on our action plans and not every action plan needs a budget. I work with the team lead and institutional research to have the equity gap data ready for the team’s kick-off. But change is hard for all the reasons I mentioned.