By Anthony Picciano - EvoLLLution. By collecting and measuring data, institutions can vastly improve their level of service for non-traditional students, creating a positive impact on persistence, completion and lifetime retention. More...
Measuring Community College Student Success: Beyond Traditional Completion Rates
By Laura Horn - EvoLLLution. As students, government officials and administrators become increasingly concerned with performance, new ways to look at academic progress need to be devised. More...
Data Analysis and Our Capacity to Measure Higher Ed’s Value
By Kristin Kennedy - EvoLLLution. There’s more to measuring the value of higher education than completion rates alone. More...
Bringing Data to the Core of Institutional Operations
By Kristin Kennedy - EvoLLLution. While data has great potential for stakeholders institution-wide, very few users actually know how to access that data to put it to effective use. More...
Efficiency Through Innovation: Improving the Accessibility and Efficacy of Data
By Brendan Aldrich - EvoLLLution. Believe it or not, the vast majority of public and private organizations across the country are structured in the same way when it comes to data … and it’s wrong. More...
Data-Driven Decision Making: Bringing CE’s Secret to the Main Campus
By Bill McClure - EvoLLLution. The analogy that women are from Venus and men from Mars might be applied to how the CE unit and the main campus view and analyze student data. Each has their own appropriate perspective and rationale for what data is important and why. More...
Predictive Analytics Support Success among At-Risk Student Populations (Part 2)
By Timothy Renick - EvoLLLution. Implementing large-scale predictive analytics, focused on driving student retention and success, can lead to massive revenue gains for the institution. More...
Predictive Analytics Support Success among At-Risk Student Populations (Part 1)
By Timothy Renick - EvoLLLution. By taking note of trends that have led to success and failure among past students, institutions have the capacity to develop a predictive analytics system that supports student retention, success and completion. More...
A New Set of Metrics for a New Higher Ed Reality
By Allyson Handley - EvoLLLution. As the federal and state governments begin to look at institutional performance for rankings and funding, respectively, those bodies should seek out different analytics systems that better-track the progress of non-traditional students. More...