The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2023

Institutional accreditation is a quality assurance process that provides colleges and universities access to critical resources once attained: federal financial aid, the ability to transfer and accept student transcripts and credits, and the increased likelihood of degree acceptance from employers and other higher ed institutions.

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Helix Education

MAY 16, 2024

Student satisfaction data is informative as well as relevant for goal-setting and improvement activities for a variety of departments and campus constituencies. The quantitative data along with qualitative data from the open-ended comments section of the survey provided insight and direction for Alexandria College to know how to take action.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

5 ways a data management platform can benefit your college To anyone who doesn’t work with raw data directly, data management might seem esoteric. Data and objective metrics build trust around processes like faculty line requests and annual reviews. Read one EAB partner’s advice on improving your program review process 4.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs has seen a rapid increase in online courses offered over the past four years. The college offered 157 online courses in spring 2019, compared to 329 course offerings in spring 2023, which is a 109% increase in the number of courses.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What this means is that institutions offering more than 50 percent of their total course offerings via correspondence education or enrolling more than 50 percent of their students in correspondence courses are not eligible to participate in Title IV financial aid programs. Last year, we wrote about our analysis of the U.S. Fall 2022 Update.

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Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes Sandy Keeter is a Professor in the Information Technology department at Seminole State College What is a DFW rate? The term “DFW rate” refers to the percentage of students in a course or program who receive a D or F, or who withdraw (W) from the course.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The cost of running a college spiked 5.2% At the same time, 28 states continued to fund higher education at lower levels than before the pandemic, and the average tuition discount rate at private colleges reached an all-time high of 56.2% from FY21 to FY22, a 10.1% increase since FY19.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean You know how sometimes you forget about food that has been in the freezer for a while? I was surprised at how many responses amounted to shopping in the freezer; they were requests for data that most colleges already, and routinely, collect. It can be revealing in useful ways.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as program review, data strategy, budget models, enrollment growth, and more. Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s not surprising that 72% of college presidents agree or somewhat agree that their institution needs to make fundamental changes in its business models, programming, or other operations ( Inside Higher Ed’s 2023 survey of presidents ). adults, down from 70% in 2013, consider a college education to be very important.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And with an increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies now touching and impacting many colleges and universities, now is the time for higher ed leaders to strive to support and understand how accreditation can improve overall to strengthen post-secondary education even more. But the demographics have changed dramatically.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

You might say: Actually, we already have a dashboard for that—I’ll share information about it at the next department heads meeting, and we’ll distribute a guide for anyone who may want to use it. If you hear: It would be great if we had data on term-to-term retention. get the infographic: how to respond to data detractors 3.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For former Mesa Community College student, Sam McFadden, a two-week, full-time “wire harness bootcamp quite literally changed my life, and has put me in a position to be successful in my career, and complete my education. Three years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine that I would be where I am today.”

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Currently, I serve as the Director of Assessment, Research & Data Analytics for the Division of Student Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder, where I lead a team dedicated to advancing assessment, strategic planning, research, and program review. I have served on the education committee throughout my term.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Program Specifications: The program coordinator must submit this document using the NCAAA template. This document should outline the program's mission and vision, as well as the learning objectives, instructional strategies, and evaluation criteria. The department board or program steering committee must approve this document.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

As the largest champion of the Black college community and the only national organization to provide both financial and professional development support to students attending publicly supported HBCUs, TMCF notes that the delays and lack of clarity surrounding Better FASFA are presenting dire consequences for its students and institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Education (ED) announced additional steps to facilitate submitting the 2024–25 FAFSA form. Earlier this week, the Biden-Harris administration announced new steps that will make it easier for colleges and universities to process records and allow for more time being spent to help students. On Monday, the U.S.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 7, 2024

On this episode from the Weekly Wisdom podcast series, we spoke Dr. Charles Welch , President and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). If not for that institution, many students in that part of the state aren't going to have a chance to go to college. And I said, ‘No, no, no, no.

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