Explore common barriers to advising effectiveness that may stand in the way of significant gains in student success at your...
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 ... Read More
A strong data infrastructure and culture are critical to navigating today’s challenges in higher education. Just this year, a number of books have come out offering guidance on how to ... Read More
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 ... Re
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
