13 May Student Success and the Double-Class Year in 2021
As institutions navigate their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion around the wisdom of a “gap year” for high school seniors before starting their...
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04 May NPEC Report on the IPEDS Human Resources Survey
IEHE’s Kristina Powers is pleased to have been invited to write the recently published white paper by the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) titled Examining Current Institutional Outsourcing Practices and...
13 Apr The EdUp Experience with Kristina Powers
Kristina Powers, the president of IEHE, was an invited guest on The EdUp Experience podcast. EdUp’s goal is to inspire and educate people to pursue a life-long learning mindset –...
09 Apr Ways to Explain Graduation Rates to Donors
College and university foundation and advancement offices do important work. So do their supporting professional associations, such as CASE. Their work is critical to institutional success. But many people on...
09 Apr Leveraging Your RealityCheck Report in Five Steps
Metrics like completion rates are important measures of performance. But comparing your completion rates to those of the institution across town or others around the state ignores the fact that...
09 Apr Data Culture Ambassadors
Unpopular ideas are just that . . . unpopular. So, when you have a new idea or way of looking at the data, you often wonder if you should go...
09 Apr What is a Good Graduation Rate?
We all have goals. Personal. Professional. Goals we share with family and friends. And others that we keep to ourselves until they are more developed. But what makes a goal...
31 Mar Explain Graduation Rates with RealityCheck
At IEHE we are excited about RealityCheck, our new data analytic tool. VERY excited. (You may have noticed :) ) So, what is this tool? With anything new, there is...
12 Mar Strategies for Leading Special Topic Analyses in IR
These are unusual times. Most campus leaders are consumed with decision-making and planning surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. The plans you may have had on your calendar are no longer there. And...
11 Mar On Being an IR Professional During Challenging Times
As an institutional researcher, I have never gotten a 2:00 a.m. phone call notifying me of a data emergency. I’ve never been asked to come to campus immediately to assist...