data Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/data/ A Blog by ACE Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:09:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png data Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/data/ 32 32 Regional Data-sharing Agreements: The Central Florida Education Ecosystem Database https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/02/05/regional-data-sharing-agreements-central-florida-education-ecosystem-database/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:09:41 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17378 By Suzanne Wilson Summers Higher education is increasingly embracing the use of big data to increase and assess the effectiveness of institutional policies and practices and to drive needed change. The Central Florida Education Ecosystem Database (CFEED) offers one promising model for regional data-sharing agreements that can increase educational attainment. With a shared commitment to student success and an understanding that ...

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]]> Learner Records: If You Build It, Will They Use It? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/09/29/learner-records-build-will-use/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:16:31 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17006 By Louis Soares This post is presented as part of ACE’s Education Blockchain Initiative, which aims to identify ways that blockchain can improve connections between education and employment. Apply by Oct. 30 to be part of the Blockchain Innovation Challenge, designed to explore both the opportunities and the risks of using blockchain in higher education. Today’s students stop and restart their ...

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]]> Using Data to Support Organizational Change at Community Colleges https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/15/using-data-support-organizational-change-community-colleges/ Fri, 15 May 2020 15:40:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16634 By Jaime Lester In the ACE research brief Tools in a Toolbox: Leading Change in Community Colleges, I present multiple recommendations to support organizational change, specifically in community colleges. While community colleges can and do change on a regular basis, leaders can use specific tools from the bottom up and the top down to facilitate strategic change. Change does not need ...

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]]> Big Data on Campus https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/12/13/big-data-campus/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:45:11 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=11440 How colleges and universities can use analytical resources to better serve their missions By Jonathan S. Gagliardi and Philip Wilkinson As vital drivers of social mobility, economic growth, and community development, U.S. colleges and universities have long been regarded as among the best in the world. However, in light of national test scores falling behind our international peers, some stakeholders have ...

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]]> Serving Post-traditional Learners https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/12/06/serving-post-traditional-learners/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:30:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=11336 By Jonathan Gagliardi and Louis Soares Calls for change are familiar to many of us in the higher education community, and in recent years they have grown louder. Government, members of the media, employers, and most importantly, the public, have settled on the notion that a college education lacks value. However, we know that is not the case, particularly for those ...

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]]> Moving Away From Data Invisibility at Tribal Colleges and Universities https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/11/20/moving-away-data-invisibility-tribal-colleges-universities/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:30:36 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=11249 By Christine A. Nelson This blog is part of a series highlighting the findings from Pulling Back the Curtain: Enrollment and Outcomes at Minority Serving Institutions. The invisibility of Native American [1] perspectives—those of Native students, researchers and their communities—continues to plague higher education, despite numerous calls for action from educational advocates across the country. A recent report from ACE, Pulling Back ...

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]]> Lead with Data. Inspire with Leadership. https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/05/25/lead-with-data-inspire-with-leadership/ Wed, 25 May 2016 14:40:11 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5020 By Bob Shea This blog is the third and final in a three-part series introducing three background papers prepared for a roundtable on financial data in higher education convened by ACE and the TIAA Institute. The report from the convening, Evolving Higher Education Business Models, is also available for downloading. For other posts in the series, see The Past Can’t Be Prologue ...

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]]> The Price We Pay for Bad Data on College Costs https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/04/27/the-price-we-pay-for-bad-data-on-college-costs/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:33:39 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4866 By Matthew Soldner This post is the first in a series introducing three background papers prepared for a roundtable on financial data in higher education convened by ACE and the TIAA Institute. The report from the convening, Evolving Higher Education Business Models, is also available for downloading. Institutional leaders—along with most students, families, educators and advocates—know that colleges and universities today face a ...

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]]> U.Va. Climate Change Case Highlights Need to Protect Unpublished Research Data https://www.higheredtoday.org/2014/01/27/u-va-climate-change-case-highlights-need-to-protect-unpublished-research-data/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:01:44 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=1055 Former ACE General Counsel Ada Meloy discusses the need for enhanced state FOIA laws to protect unpublished research data and records. The high-profile lawsuit involving former University of Virginia professor Michael Mann’s climate change research communiqués has made its way to the Supreme Court of Virginia, where justices heard oral arguments on Jan. 9. The case—formally known as American Tradition Institute v. ...

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