A Civitas Learning colleague and I teach a class in a master’s of leadership program. The course is designed to help emerging leaders use their organizational data to inform their …
Five Things Leaders Should Ask of Their Institutional Data
A strong data infrastructure and culture is critical to navigating today’s challenges in higher education. Just this year, a number of books have come out offering guidance on how to …
Change Management: The Difference Between Declining vs. Finite Resources
Colleges and universities are, generally, well-resourced. Although the statement may be unpopular, consider how well-resourced colleges and universities tend to be. Despite years of budgetary cuts, movement toward performance funding …
Increased Student Adoption With New Student Mobile App
Higher ed students are using mobile phones at an unprecedented rate. In fact, according to a recent study, 94% of students want to use a cell phone for academic purposes. Butler …
How Systems of Intelligence Enable Institutions to Learn Faster, Achieve Outcomes
Technology and data have transformed higher education’s ability to address today’s challenges and capitalize on opportunities to use signals from their own student data to provide the differentiated and personalized …
Collaborate to Catalyze: Conversations on the University Innovation Alliance (UIA)
When the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) began its work, the mission was clear: form a cutting-edge coalition of large public universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college …
Change Management: Navigating Limited Resources and Understanding Total Cost of Ownership
I recently traded in my dream car for something far more reliable. The dream car had been a reward to myself for paying off my student loans, but three years …
Making The Most of A Healthy Change in Education
In the 1850’s, a British doctor named John Snow used rudimentary survey and mapping techniques to trace London’s cholera outbreak to a single well — saving lives and giving rise …
Tides of Change in Higher Education
Recently my colleagues Rob Robinson, Eric McIntosh, and I kicked off a conversation about change management that can (and does) keep us deep in discussion for days on end! Today’s …
An Optimistic Take on Helping New Students Weather Their Storms
Visiting the Valley of the Sun in Arizona—i.e., Metro Phoenix—in the middle of August is always a toasty experience. Beyond the usual 100-degree-plus temperatures, my visit this week had a …