Long gone are the days where one department is the “data office”. Nearly every office and department uses data. Many even generate and store their own data. Data people are everywhere, bringing them together can make your job easier. Why Aren’t Data Creators Talking More? If there are many...
With the IPEDS Winter data collection cycle nearly complete (don’t forget to hit lock by February 13!), we will soon shift our focus to preparing Spring data. While it may seem like there’s little time to take a deep breath in between the cycles, finding...
At the start of the new year, many of us take a good long look at ourselves and identify somethings we'd like to do better or differently in the new year. Have you thought about doing the same with your data, though? To get started,...
So often, one of the biggest hurdles to using data effectively lies in the conversations we have about the data. What are we trying to study? What data do we need? How should we collect it? What type of analyses will we do? With so...
As you probably know, the metrics for measuring student success in higher education are dynamic. Institutions and stakeholders have long been on the hunt to know more about how college impacts students’ lives. Therefore, we have tirelessly studied student satisfaction. And grades. And graduation and...
It’s hard to believe 2019 is here already. If the new year can sneak up this quickly, so too can deadlines. It happens to all of us. So, let’s do better at planning to succeed this year. Whenever I think about the concept of planning to...
