This document discusses how Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) can better use data to improve student and institutional success and meet national college completion goals. It outlines that MSIs have traditionally educated underserved student populations but some are not fully utilizing data to assess areas for improvement. The document recommends that MSIs adopt interim measures to track student progress and success at multiple points along their educational pathway, such as placement upon entry, persistence in continuous enrollment, progression toward earning a credential, and ultimate completion. These interim measures can provide a more comprehensive view of student outcomes than traditional metrics like graduation rates alone.
American Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development is indexed, refereed and peer-reviewed journal, which is designed to publish research articles.
NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS (Founded 1982 (www.nationalforum.com) is a group of national and international refereed journals. NFJ publishes articles on colleges, universities and schools; management, business and administration; academic scholarship, multicultural issues; schooling; special education; counseling and addiction, international issues; education; organizational theory and behavior; educational leadership and supervision; action and applied research; teacher education; race, gender, society; public school law; philosophy and history; psychology, and much more. Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief.
This study aimed to identify the strategic leadership practices and their relation to improving the
quality of educational service in the Palestinian universities in the Gaza Strip. The researcher used the
analytical descriptive method. The study population consists of all the supervisors working in three universities
in the Gaza Strip (The Islamic University, Al-Azhar University, and Al-Aqsa University). A random sample of
177 employees was selected by 50% of the study population
American Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development is indexed, refereed and peer-reviewed journal, which is designed to publish research articles.
NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS (Founded 1982 (www.nationalforum.com) is a group of national and international refereed journals. NFJ publishes articles on colleges, universities and schools; management, business and administration; academic scholarship, multicultural issues; schooling; special education; counseling and addiction, international issues; education; organizational theory and behavior; educational leadership and supervision; action and applied research; teacher education; race, gender, society; public school law; philosophy and history; psychology, and much more. Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief.
This study aimed to identify the strategic leadership practices and their relation to improving the
quality of educational service in the Palestinian universities in the Gaza Strip. The researcher used the
analytical descriptive method. The study population consists of all the supervisors working in three universities
in the Gaza Strip (The Islamic University, Al-Azhar University, and Al-Aqsa University). A random sample of
177 employees was selected by 50% of the study population
Dynamics of Educational Decentralisation on Effective Management of Primary S...ijtsrd
The purpose of this indicative comparative analysis is an initial identification of key issues for the education sector that arise from its implementation of government decentralization policies. The system of education management is being gradually decentralised and de concentrated on the basis of the subsidiarity principle, as decentralisation is seen as one of the key strategies for reforming and reshaping educational institutions. The present paper tackles the questions about how the interaction of education decentralisation, what changes occur in the process of school management with the increase of school autonomy and what are the conditions for the process of effective school autonomisation. Despite decentralization of education functions through delegation and deconcentration of functions, there are still concerns of ineffectiveness in service delivery especially at the local level. The importance and the impact of raising education quality gives added weight to the question, "Can education decentralization raise quality " Education decentralization policies are prevalent around the world. The objectives of such policies especially those increasing school autonomy and local governance may include improving service delivery, but more commonly involve shifting political power or funding responsibilities. Whatever motivation for education decentralization, such policies may lead to improvements in the quality of education. This paper examines the potential of education decentralization to improve management and performance, as reflected in educational outcomes and changes in the determinants of those outcomes in three parts The conceptual arguments for such a relationship "¢ The empirical evidence of the impacts of education decentralization, Better design and implementation of decentralization policy to leverage its impact on quality management. Massa Ernest Massa "Dynamics of Educational Decentralisation on Effective Management of Primary Schools: Lessons for Cameroon" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31194.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/other/31194/dynamics-of-educational-decentralisation-on-effective-management-of-primary-schools-lessons-for-cameroon/massa-ernest-massa
A Guide for School Districts: Exploring Alternative Measures of Student Learn...Tanya Paperny
Districts across the country play a crucial role in ensuring schools effectively serve students and families. Beyond federal requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act and state-level accountability systems, locally developed school performance frameworks are a key lever for holding schools accountable, particularly for student learning and wellness.
Today — with unfamiliar school configurations and unknown impacts on student outcomes — it is more important than ever that districts are diligent about assessing schools’ impact on students. But the ways that districts have done so in the past may no longer be appropriate. And districts that previously did not engage in school-level performance assessments now have a new incentive to do so.
This toolkit is a resource to help districts adapt existing school performance frameworks to the current moment or create new ones. These slides identify and walk through the fundamental questions districts need to consider in designing school performance frameworks that acknowledge the challenges that schools and students are facing, as well as a continued need to monitor performance and continuously improve.
Predicting student performance in higher education using multi-regression modelsTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Supporting the goal of higher education to produce graduation who will be a professional leader is a crucial. Most of universities implement intelligent information system (IIS) to support in achieving their vision and mission. One of the features of IIS is student performance prediction. By implementing data mining model in IIS, this feature could precisely predict the student’ grade for their enrolled subjects. Moreover, it can recognize at-risk students and allow top educational management to take educative interventions in order to succeed academically. In this research, multi-regression model was proposed to build model for every student. In our model, learning management system (LMS) activity logs were computed. Based on the testing result on big students datasets, courses, and activities indicates that these models could improve the accuracy of prediction model by over 15%.
By The People For The People: People’s Influence On Students In Selecting Tec...Prashant Mahajan
The marketing segmentation of technical education will be better if we consider these reference groups (people mix) as an influencer. It is found that there are some People Mix - influencers - related to the institute and previous schools along with peoples associated with the students. So, it is useful to consider all these influencers rather than considering only traditional students related influencers. This article provides empirical support for the importance of interpersonal influence for educational choices. Different communication strategies can be used for these influencers who motivates students towards their decision in selecting technical education. The paper represents new form of influencers that motivates students in selecting their technical educational institute.
Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising StrategyJeremy Knight
Autonomous district schools (sometimes called “in-district charters”) use some of the same freedoms that public charter schools enjoy while remaining part of the district. Enabled by innovative policies that support school-level autonomy, Springfield, Massachusetts; Indianapolis, Indiana; Denver, Colorado; and San Antonio, Texas, are experimenting with these types of schools. While these efforts are too new to have clear student impact data, autonomous district schools could be a promising strategy to improve districts’ ability to meet families’ and students’ needs and to improve outcomes.
“Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising Strategy” summarizes Bellwether’s work with San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) over the past 18 months. The district has authorized three networks of autonomous district schools using a law that supports and incentivizes the creation of these schools. Bellwether provided program design support, strategic advice, and capacity building to SAISD’s Network Principal Initiative, and this deck offers an overview of the initiative and the lessons we learned about the launch of autonomous district schools.
This slide deck is accompanied by a tool kit, “Autonomous District Schools: Tools for Planning and Launching,” which offers concrete resources for leaders interested in planning an autonomous school or network.
Moving Toward Sustainability: Kansas City Teacher ResidencyJeremy Knight
Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a teacher residency program that recruits, certifies, and develops teachers in the Kansas city region. Launched in 2016, by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, KCTR has established a high-quality and diverse teacher preparatory program for Kansas City. In late 2018, Bellwether partnered with KCTR and Kauffman Foundation to redesign KCTR's program model to bring it in line with peer benchmarks and ensure long-term impact and sustainability. Over six months, Bellwether, in collaboration with KCTR's senior leadership team, Board, and key advisers, developed and began to implement a plan to put KCTR on a path to organizational and financial sustainability (initial changes significantly reduced the ongoing fundraising need). Key priorities identified in the plan included strengthening partnerships (with schools and university), optimizing KCTR expenditures, exploring new earned-revenue opportunities, and gradually growing the number of residents to full-scale. With the new plan, KCTR is prepared to continue the growth of impact while doing so in a sustainable manner, to ultimately fuel Kansas City with passionate, effective, and diverse educators.
Building a Quality Management System in Higher Educationijtsrd
Undergraduate research on issues of women's empowerment can be promoted in institution. Programmes on population education and premarital counselling can be important activities, which will greatly help college students both boys and girls The quality management systems in higher education can be developed specific to the location objectives of the institution, social environment, expectations of the students and locally available resources. Importantly, more can be learned from each other's experience. Upgradation of quality education in colleges is a universal need. If average colleges feel the need to adopt new initiatives, the better colleges need to create new systems. Prominent institutions in the society need to compete with their own ambitious goal of total quality education. This is the basic purpose of the mass movement towards quality education initiated by assessment and accreditation exercise Mr. Khatik Abdul Raheem ""Building a Quality Management System in Higher Education"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23986.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/23986/building-a-quality-management-system-in-higher-education/mr-khatik-abdul-raheem
An Analysis of Factors That Contribute To Low Student Success and Retention i...iosrjce
This study aimed at analysing the factors that contribute to low student success and retention in open
and distance learning (ODL) institutions. The Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU), Mashonaland East Regional
Centre was purposively selected for the study which adopted the case study design in order to provide a detailed
empirical investigation of the problem of retention rates in ZOU. The study employed the qualitative research
methodology. Data were gathered through focus group discussions, questionnaires and in-depth interviews to
enable data triangulation. The target population was 650 students who all took part in the survey. These were
drawn from all the four faculties of the University at the Mashonaland East Regional Centre. The study revealed
that student enrolment statistics at the ZOU - Mashonaland East Regional Centre experienced the worst decline
(40%) in 2009 between the first and second semester due to socio-economic and political challenges prevailing
in the country. The rate of decline in enrolment varied according to programmes. Also the participation of
women (44%) in distance education as compared to men (56%) at Mashonaland East Regional Centre was a
cause for concern. Financial challenges caused by low salaries and unfriendly fees policy was cited by almost
92% of the respondents as the major cause of student dropout. Institutional – related factors such as tutoring,
communication, library services and fees policy were said to be significantly contributing to student dropout.
The study made a number of recommendations among which were that ZOU needs to improve the quality and
effectiveness of student support services in the following areas: management of assignments, delivery of
tutorials, distribution of study materials, and publication of examinations. Tutorial time per module should be
increased (12 tutorial hours per module). ZOU should consider the advantages of the Block release method of
delivery as opposed to tutorials. Student queries, of whatever nature, must be addressed promptly and
effectively. It is also important for ZOU to create a billing system that will allow for some flexibility in fees
payment. An example would be allowing students to set up a payment plan. ZOU must adopt policies and
procedures that address the special needs of distance education students since distance education encompasses
a broad range of age groups.
This is a survey of the anti-judaism that permeated Western European Christian society from the classical period, through the Middle Ages and into Early Modern Europe. This ppt was created to give historical background for the teaching of Merchant of Venice.
Dynamics of Educational Decentralisation on Effective Management of Primary S...ijtsrd
The purpose of this indicative comparative analysis is an initial identification of key issues for the education sector that arise from its implementation of government decentralization policies. The system of education management is being gradually decentralised and de concentrated on the basis of the subsidiarity principle, as decentralisation is seen as one of the key strategies for reforming and reshaping educational institutions. The present paper tackles the questions about how the interaction of education decentralisation, what changes occur in the process of school management with the increase of school autonomy and what are the conditions for the process of effective school autonomisation. Despite decentralization of education functions through delegation and deconcentration of functions, there are still concerns of ineffectiveness in service delivery especially at the local level. The importance and the impact of raising education quality gives added weight to the question, "Can education decentralization raise quality " Education decentralization policies are prevalent around the world. The objectives of such policies especially those increasing school autonomy and local governance may include improving service delivery, but more commonly involve shifting political power or funding responsibilities. Whatever motivation for education decentralization, such policies may lead to improvements in the quality of education. This paper examines the potential of education decentralization to improve management and performance, as reflected in educational outcomes and changes in the determinants of those outcomes in three parts The conceptual arguments for such a relationship "¢ The empirical evidence of the impacts of education decentralization, Better design and implementation of decentralization policy to leverage its impact on quality management. Massa Ernest Massa "Dynamics of Educational Decentralisation on Effective Management of Primary Schools: Lessons for Cameroon" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31194.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/other/31194/dynamics-of-educational-decentralisation-on-effective-management-of-primary-schools-lessons-for-cameroon/massa-ernest-massa
A Guide for School Districts: Exploring Alternative Measures of Student Learn...Tanya Paperny
Districts across the country play a crucial role in ensuring schools effectively serve students and families. Beyond federal requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act and state-level accountability systems, locally developed school performance frameworks are a key lever for holding schools accountable, particularly for student learning and wellness.
Today — with unfamiliar school configurations and unknown impacts on student outcomes — it is more important than ever that districts are diligent about assessing schools’ impact on students. But the ways that districts have done so in the past may no longer be appropriate. And districts that previously did not engage in school-level performance assessments now have a new incentive to do so.
This toolkit is a resource to help districts adapt existing school performance frameworks to the current moment or create new ones. These slides identify and walk through the fundamental questions districts need to consider in designing school performance frameworks that acknowledge the challenges that schools and students are facing, as well as a continued need to monitor performance and continuously improve.
Predicting student performance in higher education using multi-regression modelsTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Supporting the goal of higher education to produce graduation who will be a professional leader is a crucial. Most of universities implement intelligent information system (IIS) to support in achieving their vision and mission. One of the features of IIS is student performance prediction. By implementing data mining model in IIS, this feature could precisely predict the student’ grade for their enrolled subjects. Moreover, it can recognize at-risk students and allow top educational management to take educative interventions in order to succeed academically. In this research, multi-regression model was proposed to build model for every student. In our model, learning management system (LMS) activity logs were computed. Based on the testing result on big students datasets, courses, and activities indicates that these models could improve the accuracy of prediction model by over 15%.
By The People For The People: People’s Influence On Students In Selecting Tec...Prashant Mahajan
The marketing segmentation of technical education will be better if we consider these reference groups (people mix) as an influencer. It is found that there are some People Mix - influencers - related to the institute and previous schools along with peoples associated with the students. So, it is useful to consider all these influencers rather than considering only traditional students related influencers. This article provides empirical support for the importance of interpersonal influence for educational choices. Different communication strategies can be used for these influencers who motivates students towards their decision in selecting technical education. The paper represents new form of influencers that motivates students in selecting their technical educational institute.
Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising StrategyJeremy Knight
Autonomous district schools (sometimes called “in-district charters”) use some of the same freedoms that public charter schools enjoy while remaining part of the district. Enabled by innovative policies that support school-level autonomy, Springfield, Massachusetts; Indianapolis, Indiana; Denver, Colorado; and San Antonio, Texas, are experimenting with these types of schools. While these efforts are too new to have clear student impact data, autonomous district schools could be a promising strategy to improve districts’ ability to meet families’ and students’ needs and to improve outcomes.
“Autonomous District Schools: Lessons From the Field on a Promising Strategy” summarizes Bellwether’s work with San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) over the past 18 months. The district has authorized three networks of autonomous district schools using a law that supports and incentivizes the creation of these schools. Bellwether provided program design support, strategic advice, and capacity building to SAISD’s Network Principal Initiative, and this deck offers an overview of the initiative and the lessons we learned about the launch of autonomous district schools.
This slide deck is accompanied by a tool kit, “Autonomous District Schools: Tools for Planning and Launching,” which offers concrete resources for leaders interested in planning an autonomous school or network.
Moving Toward Sustainability: Kansas City Teacher ResidencyJeremy Knight
Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a teacher residency program that recruits, certifies, and develops teachers in the Kansas city region. Launched in 2016, by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, KCTR has established a high-quality and diverse teacher preparatory program for Kansas City. In late 2018, Bellwether partnered with KCTR and Kauffman Foundation to redesign KCTR's program model to bring it in line with peer benchmarks and ensure long-term impact and sustainability. Over six months, Bellwether, in collaboration with KCTR's senior leadership team, Board, and key advisers, developed and began to implement a plan to put KCTR on a path to organizational and financial sustainability (initial changes significantly reduced the ongoing fundraising need). Key priorities identified in the plan included strengthening partnerships (with schools and university), optimizing KCTR expenditures, exploring new earned-revenue opportunities, and gradually growing the number of residents to full-scale. With the new plan, KCTR is prepared to continue the growth of impact while doing so in a sustainable manner, to ultimately fuel Kansas City with passionate, effective, and diverse educators.
Building a Quality Management System in Higher Educationijtsrd
Undergraduate research on issues of women's empowerment can be promoted in institution. Programmes on population education and premarital counselling can be important activities, which will greatly help college students both boys and girls The quality management systems in higher education can be developed specific to the location objectives of the institution, social environment, expectations of the students and locally available resources. Importantly, more can be learned from each other's experience. Upgradation of quality education in colleges is a universal need. If average colleges feel the need to adopt new initiatives, the better colleges need to create new systems. Prominent institutions in the society need to compete with their own ambitious goal of total quality education. This is the basic purpose of the mass movement towards quality education initiated by assessment and accreditation exercise Mr. Khatik Abdul Raheem ""Building a Quality Management System in Higher Education"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23986.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/23986/building-a-quality-management-system-in-higher-education/mr-khatik-abdul-raheem
An Analysis of Factors That Contribute To Low Student Success and Retention i...iosrjce
This study aimed at analysing the factors that contribute to low student success and retention in open
and distance learning (ODL) institutions. The Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU), Mashonaland East Regional
Centre was purposively selected for the study which adopted the case study design in order to provide a detailed
empirical investigation of the problem of retention rates in ZOU. The study employed the qualitative research
methodology. Data were gathered through focus group discussions, questionnaires and in-depth interviews to
enable data triangulation. The target population was 650 students who all took part in the survey. These were
drawn from all the four faculties of the University at the Mashonaland East Regional Centre. The study revealed
that student enrolment statistics at the ZOU - Mashonaland East Regional Centre experienced the worst decline
(40%) in 2009 between the first and second semester due to socio-economic and political challenges prevailing
in the country. The rate of decline in enrolment varied according to programmes. Also the participation of
women (44%) in distance education as compared to men (56%) at Mashonaland East Regional Centre was a
cause for concern. Financial challenges caused by low salaries and unfriendly fees policy was cited by almost
92% of the respondents as the major cause of student dropout. Institutional – related factors such as tutoring,
communication, library services and fees policy were said to be significantly contributing to student dropout.
The study made a number of recommendations among which were that ZOU needs to improve the quality and
effectiveness of student support services in the following areas: management of assignments, delivery of
tutorials, distribution of study materials, and publication of examinations. Tutorial time per module should be
increased (12 tutorial hours per module). ZOU should consider the advantages of the Block release method of
delivery as opposed to tutorials. Student queries, of whatever nature, must be addressed promptly and
effectively. It is also important for ZOU to create a billing system that will allow for some flexibility in fees
payment. An example would be allowing students to set up a payment plan. ZOU must adopt policies and
procedures that address the special needs of distance education students since distance education encompasses
a broad range of age groups.
This is a survey of the anti-judaism that permeated Western European Christian society from the classical period, through the Middle Ages and into Early Modern Europe. This ppt was created to give historical background for the teaching of Merchant of Venice.
Leading with Data: How Senior Institution and System Leaders Use Postsecondar...eraser Juan José Calderón
"Leading with Data: How Senior Institution and System Leaders Use Postsecondary Data to Promote Student Success" Informe de IHEP, The Institute for Higher Education Policy
Authors: Jamey Rorison and Mamie Voight
Published: April 2016
"Enrollment Management," presented by Dennis Pruitt at the College Business Management Institute, 2016
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Disrupted Futures 2023 | Learning from large-scale, longitudinal datasetsEduSkills OECD
This presentation from the OECD Disrupted Futures 2023: International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives conference looks at Challenging inequalities through career guidance: quantitative analyses “What Can We Learn About Career Readiness Interventions from Large-Scale, Longitudinal Datasets”. Presented by Thomas Torre Gibney and Cameron Sublett.
Discover the videos and other sessions from the OECD Disrupted Futures 2023 conference at https://www.oecd.org/education/career-readiness/conferences-webinars/disrupted-futures-2023.htm
Find out more about our work on Career Readiness https://www.oecd.org/education/career-readiness/
What is the important data that is not being recorded in comparative internat...Frederic Fovet
There have been giant steps made in the last decade with regards to the ways data on student performance is collected, analyzed and used for school improvement (Breakspear, 2014; Rozgonjuk et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2020). Much of the impact of the analysis of this data lies in the fact that it has allowed for large international comparative studies that yield important conclusions on the effectiveness of teaching practices, curriculum, and modes of assessment (Dickinson, 2019; OECD 2000-2015). The PISA framework and annual PISA results have in particular allowed for revealing reflections, at international level, in relation to the objectives, ethos and performance of national educational structures (Krieg, 2019; Patrinos & Angrist, 2018).
International comparative studies carried out on the data collected for the purpose of these large surveys, however, have yet to examine learner diversity or educational system’s ability to develop, grow and sustain inclusive practices in schools (Krammer et al., 2021). As a result, a significant gap exists in the quantitative data that is emerging from international comparative studies (Ainscow, 2015; Booth & Ainscow, 2002; Poulsen & Hewson, 2014).
This presentation will (i) examine the limitations of international, comparative standardized data on the issues of learner diversity and inclusive practices, (ii) explore the quantitative tools that do exist but are currently under-utilized in terms of data mining, (iii) examine the challenges and opportunities which lie ahead in relation to the development of sustainable quantitative tools that might allow for comparative analysis of the various ways national education systems tackle the task of differentiating education.
Improving Outcomes for All Students: Strategies and Considerations to Increas...Mohammed Choudhury
This brief provides information to support school districts and stakeholders seeking to improve student diversity in their schools through voluntary, community-led programs as part of an overall effort to increase equity and excellence for all students. Diversity can include many factors, such as race, national origin, disability, socioeconomic status, and language proficiency. What follows is an action-oriented summary of considerations when embarking on efforts to increase student diversity, starting with possible steps to consider when conducting a diversity needs assessment and planning for implementation. Potential diversity strategies and a few examples from the field are included, as well as thoughts on efforts to sustain an inclusive environment once diversity strategies are being implemented.
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Essay On Higher Education
Design and Methods
Introduction:
Since the inception of higher education acts, the goal of the federal government has been to increase access to students who may not have otherwise been able to attend. For Financial Aid Administrators, it is not enough to simply get low income students through the college doors of higher education, but ensuring that students are successfully persisting and progressing to the completion of their college degree. Previous studies support a connection between financial aid and college graduation.
Framework and Model (research question/hypothesis, data sources)
This study utilizes a quantitative study design to study the relationship between low income students access to financial aid and their progress...show more content...Focusing on this university as opposed to other state schools was preferable due to a large number of students and the diversity of the student population as compared to other state schools within the state. Additionally, this University has 3 campuses (one in the southern part of the state, one in the central part and one in the northern part) thus providing a representative sample of the state with regard to characteristics including socioeconomic status, race, and gender.
This study utilized secondary data analysis. The data was extracted from the larger data set through the University s Department of Institutional Research (IR). The role of this department is to collect, analyze and report on data for institutional planning, policy development and represents the university as an arm which disseminates public information services, in order to meet the needs of the university community and external sta
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Evolving needs of Community College Students
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Evolving Needs of Community College Students
Historical Background
Community colleges were initially not distinctly identified on their own. Until the Clinton reforms of community colleges in the 1980s, community colleges were no different from junior colleges. The programs and organizational culture were not as developed, and the student needs were rarely attended to in the diverse way that they are today (Gavazzi et al., 2018). Students were assumed to be homogenous, with either a low economic background or substantially flat academic prowess. After the recognition and reinstatement as accredited institutions of merit, community college missions changed and became more student-centered.
The core programs were initially only vocational and for transfer to university purposes. Developmental education was not adequately developed, yet it contributed in a massive way to student retention and the student's ability to finish the program and progress to higher education. Community colleges have been very rigid in their approach to learning, governance, and even administration (Beach, 2011). Most of the changes that occur do not affect the entire institution but are marginalized to transform only a select few. These changes either influence a certain courses based on profitability or the trends in the business world, but rarely extend to other programs within the colleges.
Fiscal policies in community colleges are primarily dependent on the federal government because community college facilities are supposed to encourage the most economically disadvantaged. Tuition is very low compared to the capacity building needed to run the institutions, and the result is that the community colleges suffer from an ultimate shortage in the facility and consolidated programs that undermine the skill sets offered to the students (O'Banion, 2019). Traditionally this has been crippling the system’s ability to change the approach in which the curriculum, administration and governance is run.It creates a shortage of staff for capacity building purposes and an overall decline in the quality of education offered within the institution.
Current issues
Current issues relating to students' evolving needs include student performances that have been diverse depending on factors such as program choice. Programs in health sciences, for instance, have seen a very consistent high-performance culture that has been aided by the level of competency that the students in the courses (Fugle & Falk, 2015). About 98 percent of the students in classes such as a physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, radiologic technicians, and nursing assistance have seen a very high return on investment in terms of their absorption into the workforce or their progression into b.
Performance-Based Funding – A New Era in Accountability?Ludmila Adamovica
Data visualization of “Performance Based Funding – A new era in accountability?” Many states are now reconsidering the funding by enrollment model for state appropriations.
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Vera Discussion:
This was a really interesting class and writing policy much more complicated than I had ever dreamed. With each assignment, we learned that every move and the intended outcome had a consequence. Some were good and others not as positive. Below are some of my learning moments. If I am in a position to write a higher education policy, I now know that I’ll need a lot of research, a solid plan, and a committee with representatives from all stakeholders.
1. Higher education is vital to the community and a college policy can affect change in a town or region. A downturn in enrollment, modification in coursework, or an infrastructure upgrade will be felt in the surrounding area.
2. State and Federal funding must be considered in the policy. Crafting policy to benefit the institution must not damage the ability to obtain funding. Monies to the college come from many sources but governmental funding is vital.
3. Staffing and operations must be thought through carefully. If enrollment or courses change it affects the faculty and staff. When faced with the loss of employment or salary changes a policy can become unpopular rapidly.
4. Change must be monitored and measured. The policy may seem successful but there are so many potential hurdles that crop up along the way.
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Using Data to Improve Minority-Serving Institution Success
1. To meet our nation’s college completion goals by 2025,
postsecondary institutions must graduate a total of 23 million more
students over the next 13 years.1
As the higher education sector
continues to consider strategies to meet this ambitious goal, it is
crucial that higher education institutions use data effectively to
analyze where they are, where they need to be, and what steps will
get them there. Many institutions that serve large numbers of 21st
century students who are crucial to meeting the goal and have been
traditionally underserved in the past—such as students of color, low-
income students, and first-generation college students—have
extensive knowledge of how to best support students and reduce
barriers from enrollment to graduation. Minority-Serving Institutions
(MSIs) in particular have historically educated and graduated a large
proportion of underserved students. Therefore, MSIs have great
potential for graduating an even larger number of college graduates
over the next decade.
INTRODUCTION
This brief highlights how MSIs can better identify, collect, and use data2
for internal
decision making and provide external audiences with a deeper understanding of how
MSIs contribute to the higher education landscape. Specifically, this brief highlights how
MSIs from the Lumina MSI-Models of Success project (see BOX 1) have used data to
implement policy and programmatic changes on their campuses in support of student and
institutional success. The goal of this brief is to continue a conversation about ways MSIs
can build upon their data work to improve future reporting, analyses, and decision
making. In addition, the lessons shared in the brief have broad application to other
institutions, especially those that serve students from disadvantaged backgrounds. This
is the second in a series of briefs by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) to
feature emerging themes from the Lumina MSI-Models of Success program.
MSIs are well known for their academic and social supports, strong cultural
understanding of the populations they serve, and targeted missions to educate and
graduate students of color.3
Some, however, are not fully using data to their advantage.
Finding better ways to measure success, progress, and the exceptional benefits of MSIs
USING DATA TO IMPROVE MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTION
SUCCESS
By Bi Vuong and Christen Cullum Hairston
October 2012
1
Lumina Foundation Goal 2025. Retrieved from http://www.luminafoundation.org/goal_2025/goal3.html.
2
Unless otherwise indicated, the term “data” in this brief refers to student-level longitudinal data (i.e., data
collected on individual students that can be linked over time to help assess student progress.
3
N. Harmon. 2012. The Role of Minority-Serving Institutions in National College Completion Goals.
Washington, DC: Institute for Higher Education Policy.
1
2. 2
BOX 1: LUMINA MSI-MODELS OF SUCCESS
MSIs include Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and
Universities (TCUs), Hispanic-Serving
Institutions (HSIs), and as of 2008, Asian
American and Native American Pacific Islander
-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs). The Lumina
MSI-Models of Success project began in fall
2009 and will continue until fall 2012. Seeking
to dramatically increase college completion—
especially among first-generation students, low
-income students, and students of color—the
Lumina MSI-Models of Success project is
partnering with more than 25 MSIs and other
organizations to improve and document
increased postsecondary attainment.
Participating institutions and organizations
embrace a collective MSI success agenda.
The Lumina MSI-Models of Success project
has five objectives:
1. Improve the capacity of MSIs to collect,
analyze, and use data to inform decisions
that will promote student success.
2. Create a collective voice for policy
advocacy on behalf of MSIs.
3. Strengthen policy and practice to improve
developmental education.
4. Increase MSIs’ commitment to transparency
and effectiveness in improving student
learning outcomes.
5. Increase the postsecondary completion of
traditionally underserved students,
especially men of color.
As the key intermediary for the initiative, IHEP
provides technical assistance and support for
eight grantees. IHEP also assists with the
documentation and dissemination of project
findings to inform the higher education success
and policy agenda at the federal, state, and
institutional levels.
beyond the typical data points is vital to illustrating their value to
higher education and the college completion agenda. Traditional
data points such as graduation rates do not always show the
complete picture of MSIs’ successes, as they do not always
adequately measure MSIs’ unique educational experiences and
targeted missions. Some solutions not only improve measures at a
student’s entrance and exit from the university but also include
interim measures—a concept that this brief will describe in detail.
Data collection and analyses at all points of a student’s educational
pathway are at the core of providing quantitative, tangible
benchmarks and points of improvement. In line with this goal, MSIs
are paying closer attention to how they can use data to identify
opportunities and develop strategies for improving the delivery and
support of institutional goals. Historically, most colleges (not just
MSIs) have generated data primarily to meet federal or state
reporting requirements.4
However, changes in the national policy
landscape, projected trends in the labor market, and the growing
focus of many states on postsecondary completion have compelled
MSIs and other institutions to consider how they can develop and
sustain an internal culture of data-informed decision making on
campus—all in support of college student success. Some MSIs are
using data in new and notable ways that can inform other efforts.
The change from collecting data for compliance purposes to using
data to inform decision making requires a paradigm shift. To
facilitate this shift, institutional leaders at MSIs must demonstrate
that research and evaluation for institutional improvement is a
priority. They can do so by dedicating institutional resources to data
collection and analyses, and by changing institutional policies and
programs based on the findings.
Institutions will also have to dedicate time and resources to
collecting the right data, implementing data systems and processes
that ensure data quality and developing internal data analysis
capacity (see Box 2). Absent these conditions, institutions may
have only anecdotal evidence, rather than data, to draw on in their
efforts to assess policy and program effectiveness, and they may
struggle to assess areas of weakness and strategies for
improvement.
“Finding better ways to measure success,
progress, and the unique benefits that MSIs
provide beyond the typical data points is
vital to illustrating the value of MSIs to
higher education and the college completion
agenda.”
4
L. Allen and R. Kazis. 2007. Building a Culture of Evidence in Community Colleges: Lessons from Exemplary Institutions. Boston, MA: Jobs for the Future.
Retrieved from http://www.jff.org/publications/education/building-culture-evidence-community-coll/208.
2
3. USING WHAT YOU HAVE
Federal data, such as those collected in Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Survey (IPEDS), is often used for
compliance purposes. For example, the standard definition of graduation rates, as mandated in federal data collections,
is calculated using first-time, full-time students who graduate from the same institution.5
Although this measurement is
not unique to MSIs, it is problematic because MSIs educate and graduate many part-time, nontraditional, and transfer
students who may not be counted in the standard graduation rate calculation. Consequently, MSIs may appear to have
low graduation rates, which can affect their funding and peer competitiveness.
But several MSIs have used these data in novel ways to illustrate students’ progress from enrollment to degree
completion. For example, the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP), an HSI and participant in the Lumina MSI-Models of
Success project, not only measures the traditional four- and six-year graduation rates but also has created a “degree
production ratio.” This ratio looks at the relationship between baccalaureate graduates (the grand total of baccalaureate
degrees awarded in the first major) and the total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduates enrolled four years
earlier (12-month FTE undergraduate enrollment). This type of measurement can provide a different perspective to
BOX 2: THE DIMENSIONS OF DATA-INFORMED DECISION MAKING
Capacity for Data Use and Analysis
Collecting the right data and ensuring their accuracy are basic
to data-informed policymaking. Equally critical is the capacity
to analyze and use these data effectively. To build this
capacity, institutions must hire staff with the right set of data
skills and the policy and program knowledge to conduct and
interpret analysis, and enable policymakers and institutional
leaders to integrate findings into their decision-making
processes. In sum, using data effectively for policymaking
requires investing the time and effort to look at the analysis
and assess the implications, and being willing to create or
adjust policies based on the findings.
SOURCE: B. Vuong. 2011. Leveraging Data for College Completion.
Pathways to College Network. Washington, DC: Institute for Higher
Education Policy.
5
IPEDS defines graduation rates as follows: “Data are collected on the number of students entering the institution as full-time, first-time, degree/certificate
-seeking undergraduate students in a particular year (cohort), by race/ethnicity and gender; the number completing their program within 150 percent of
normal time to completion; the number that transfer to other institutions if transfer is part of the institution's mission.” Retrieved from
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/glossaryindex.asp?id=812. 3
THE DIMENSIONS OF DATA-INFORMED DECISION
MAKING
Data can be used in multiple ways to inform decision making
and subsequently drive policy and programmatic change.
Data-informed decision making has three dimensions: (1)
Data collection, (2) data management, and (3) capacity for
data use and analysis.
Data Collection
The purpose of data collection is straightforward: To obtain
information. Yet since education data can be collected for
various reasons and in various ways, it is important that
policymakers, institutional leaders, and practitioners identify
the policy, programmatic, and operational issues they would
like to address before using the data. A significant challenge
to data collection is gathering the right data on the front end.
Decision makers play a central role in providing the context
within which staff members collect data points; encouraging
their input and commitment at an early stage will make data
collection and subsequent analysis most effective for a
variety of purposes.
Data Management
Proper data collection is essential for proper analysis. Data
management, in contrast, can ensure the accuracy of the
data collected, as well as proper data analysis. Among the
components that contribute to sound data management are
having robust data governance structures in place and
addressing issues of data access, privacy, and security. By
supporting solid data management practices, decision
makers will help ensure that their institutions collect accurate
data. Thus, any decisions informed by data analysis will be
based on sound information.
4. 4
UTEP’s data by adding to the cohort graduation rates and
showing all graduates as a ratio of those who entered college
four years before.
Morgan State University President David Wilson6
recently
discussed how he used standard compliance data to illustrate
the success of students at his institution. To an audience of
MSI leaders, Wilson shared how he used disaggregated
student data to make comparisons among Morgan State
University students and comparable students from institutions
across Maryland. By disaggregating these data, he was able to
show that students from low-income backgrounds were
succeeding at Morgan State University at comparable (and
sometimes higher) rates compared with their peers across the
state. Disaggregating these data allowed Wilson to make two
strong statements: First, Morgan State University is making
good progress in educating its students, and second, state
policymakers and institutional leaders should have a more
comprehensive depiction of Morgan State University’s
outcomes beyond the limitations of traditional graduation rates.
MSIs and other institutions that seek to better illustrate their
success should consider the same strategy.
These examples, amongst others, demonstrate the importance
and power of using existing data. In March 2012, the U.S.
Department of Education highlighted this point in its Action
Plan for Improving Measures of Postsecondary Student
Success. This plan outlines the ways in which the federal
government wishes to “help institutions, systems, and states to
increase their capacity for collecting and disseminating data on
student success” and to “improve the quality and availability of
student success data at the federal level for consumers,
institutions, policymakers, and researchers.”7
Among other
things, the plan calls for graduation data to be expanded to
account for the diversity of students enrolled (i.e., part-time,
adult, certificate) at two-year institutions, and suggests
improvements to data elements and reporting on student
success and completion in both the IPEDS and the National
Student Loan Data System.
Although the efforts outlined in the Action Plan are designed
specifically for two-year colleges, they are also applicable to
four-year institutions. The plan is suitable for all types of
institutions of higher education considering the need for
improved data systems, collection, and reporting to meet
national college completion goals. It also reinforces the need
for state and federal systems and institutions to work together
to better reflect student success at colleges and universities
nationwide.
EDUCATION PATHWAY: MEASURES OF SUCCESS
ALONG THE WAY
Many MSI leaders recognize that students’ educational paths
can be varied and not easily captured through federal data.
They have begun to use their own institutional data to better
assess student success and track progress toward degree
completion. The indicators used are sometimes referred to as
“interim measures.” Recent research8
recommends using
interim measures to mark intermittent steps or show students’
momentum. This study focuses on interim measures in the
context of community colleges; however, this framework is
easily applied to four-year institutions as well.
Both two- and four-year MSIs should consider creating their
own interim measures to better measure and communicate
students’ progress. This type of information could be beneficial
for both external and internal decision makers. The overarching
goal is not only to collect front-end (e.g., admission test scores)
and back-end (e.g., graduation rates) data, but also to have a
more consistent and systematic data collection process. This
approach will allow the institution a comprehensive picture of
students as they move along their education pathway.
Four interim measures that all types of institutions can identify
and measure along a student’s education pathway are: (1)
Placement, (2) persistence, (3) progression toward a
credential, and (4) completion. These measures are defined
as follows:
Placement measures are used to assess students upon
entry to the institution, a major field of study, or a specific
course. Placement is key because it evaluates where
students “begin,” and helps them get placed in the
appropriate courses and academic programs. Placement
tests, pre-course assessments, and prior learning credentials
are examples of indicators that could serve as baseline
measures to ensure that students are appropriately placed.
Correctly assessing students at the point of entry heightens
the likelihood of success and provides the foundation upon
which to examine future progress.
Persistence measures indicate continuous enrollment.
Although persistence is commonly measured by semester-to-
semester enrollment, it can be measured in various ways,
including course-to-course (especially for gateway, and
6
David Wilson was a keynote speaker at the 2012 Lumina MSI-Models of Success Summer Grantee Meeting. In attendance were representatives from all of the
Lumina MSI-Models of Success grantee institutions and partner institutions, who met to discuss, collaborate, and celebrate the successes of their projects.
Other keynote speakers included Karen Gross, senior policy advisor from the U.S. Department of Education; and Clay Pell, White House Fellow, National Se-
curity staff, and grandson of the late Senator Claiborne Pell.
7
U.S. Department of Education. 2012. Action Plan for Improving Measures of Postsecondary Student Success. Retrieved from
http://www.accjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Action-Plan-for-Improving-Measures-of-Postsecondary-Student-Success-FINAL2.pdf.
8
J. Offenstein and N. Shulock. 2010. Taking the Next Step: The Promise of Intermediate Measures for Meeting Postsecondary Completion Goals.
Boston, MA: Jobs for the Future. Retrieved from http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/ATD_TakingtheNextStep_092810.pdf.
4
5. 9
M. Gasman. 2012. “The Government’s New Way of Measuring Student Success: Implications for Black Colleges,” Huffington Post. Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marybeth-gasman/the-governments-new-way-o_b_1420456.html.
10
In September 2010, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Released the concept paper “Completion by Design” and the accompanying framework
“Support Student Success: Preventing Loss, Creating Momentum” to support community colleges. Although closely related, the four points identi-
fied in the framework have been modified for this brief. The original framework can be accessed at:
http://completionbydesign.org/sites/default/files/cdat_loss&momentum_r101_0.pdf.
5
major course sequences), credit-hour accumulation,
year-to-year, academic standing (i.e., moving from
junior to senior year), or transfer. Institutions use
various indicators to assess students’ progress on
these pathways. Some of the more common markers
include early warning or interim progress reports,
enrollment and course-taking patterns, and grade
point average (GPA). Institutional leaders often
analyze the risk factors associated with negative
student performance and use those factors to predict
problems and develop strategies to ensure
continuous enrollment.
Progression toward a credential includes measures
that determine whether students are making
satisfactory progress toward graduation. Academic
audits highlight this type of progress, but they are
often done at the end of a student’s academic
experience. More periodic audits should occur to
ensure that students are progressing toward their
degree by obtaining the appropriate credits and
grades. Progression indicators can also be used to
support and reinforce students’ transfer readiness
and development of non-cognitive skills that support
academic success.
Completion refers to attaining a postsecondary
credential. Although it has been largely defined by
graduation rates, new measures of completion, such
as those discussed in the U.S. Department of
Education’s Action Plan9
are being encouraged.
Collecting data incrementally can help faculty and staff
better identify and support students, particularly those in
need of additional or specialized academic and social
supports, early and at various intervals. Some institutions
may find that it is difficult to use data in this manner at the
outset, as it shifts when data is collected and how it is used
to inform decision making. The following section highlights
examples from the Lumina MSI-Models of Success project
that show how data are used to measure momentum at the
four aforementioned intervals.10
Each example reflects a
particular institution’s needs, but MSIs and other institutions
can all replicate these strategies. Although each
institutional experience is different, by assessing the factors
that affect student progress in these four areas, institutional
leaders can address some of the key challenges to degree
completion.
6. 6
Based on their work in the Lumina MSI-Models of
Success project, UTEP, El Paso Community College,
Texas A&M University, and Prairie View A&M
University collectively established an iterative and
dynamic process of data collection and analysis to
address issues related to persistence of first-time
students. The UTEP team was able to refine and
expand its research questions, supplement its data
collection, and develop a Risk Stratification Model to
identify factors that negatively affect student success,
such as academic background, enrollment patterns,
financial aid, and time to degree. UTEP supplemented
its quantitative analyses with qualitative data gained
from student focus groups designed to provide a
deeper examination of the factors contributing to
persistence challenges.
UTEP now regularly generates system-wide reports
that identify first-time students who may require
additional support, and offers these students follow-up
services, including workshops on developing
academic strategies to help them persist beyond the
first year and succeed in college.
As part of the Lumina MSI-Model of Success Project,
Salish Kootenai College (SKC) and Fort Peck
Community College undertook an action research
project focused on American Indian students in need
of developmental course work in mathematics,
English, and reading. Currently, 70 percent of all SKC
students start in developmental education. The
research was intended to identify the factors that
contribute to retention and success. An initial review
of course completion and retention data showed high
dropout rates, low persistence rates in gateway
courses, and low long-term persistence rates for
students enrolled in developmental education. An
analysis of student placement exams revealed that a
significant number of students had not been placed in
appropriate developmental courses.
Based on these results, SKC modified its placement
process to ensure that students were enrolled in the
correct academic and support courses. To implement
this new process, the Department of Academic
Success (DAS) and Developmental Task Force
trained DAS staff regarding placement and worked
with faculty to help them understand placement
results. Initial results have been promising, as the
percentage of students incorrectly placed has
declined from 30 percent to 8 percent. In addition, the
change for developmental students from fall 2007 to
fall 2011 coincided with an increase in passing
remedial courses of 22 percentage points over four
years. Overall, the proper identification of students in
need of developmental education and the subsequent
placement and support for these students have
resulted in an increase in student success at SKC and
Fort Peck Community College over the past four
years.
6
PLACEMENT PERSISTENCE
7. To assess the efficacy of the Dual Degree program, in
which students transfer from Miami Dade College
(MDC) to Florida International University (FIU), the
institutions established a process to collect and
analyze relevant data associated with students who
initially applied to FIU but were not ready to enroll,
and students who completed an associate’s degree in
three years at FIU. Several analyses have been
conducted, resulting in changes to institutional
practices. For example, the FIU team determined that
students who declined offers to participate in the
program were less informed or more confused about
the program than students who accepted offers.
Consequently, the admissions office has changed its
invitation letter, is updating its website to include
additional program information, and is making follow-
up calls to students who do not respond to the initial
offer.
A review of data on students who transferred to FIU
revealed that some were taking fewer courses at FIU
than at MDC, thus slowing their credit accumulation
and degree completion rates. To understand this
trend, FIU interviewed 25 of these students, many of
whom communicated a lack of clarity about FIU’s
degree expectations prior to transfer. As a result,
students often faced problems getting placed in their
major of choice, stemming from such issues as a lack
of prerequisite courses, GPA requirement barriers,
and challenges related to course availability. An FIU
advisor is now available on MDC’s campus several
days a week to assist students.
The program data available from MDC (fall 2006 to
spring 2010) and FIU (fall 2006 to spring 2011), show
that 18,286 students were invited to the program,
4,470 accepted, 4,122 enrolled, and 3,222 (78.2
percent of enrolled students) took remedial courses at
MDC. Of this last group, 1,389 transitioned to FIU.
These data show that by identifying the additional
18,286 potential students for the program, even in its
early years the program added 1,224 associate’s
degree graduates and 140 bachelor’s degree
graduates, with many more anticipated in the future.
The data points highlighted above exemplify how
MSIs can use data both to improve student outcomes
and to report out their successes. Across the
policymaking spectrum, the push to use data more
systematically for decision making continues to gain
momentum. The Obama administration, state
governments, and many major foundations (notably
Lumina Foundation) have all emphasized the need for
evidence-based reform in higher education, and
specifically as a tool for meeting the national
completion agenda, as mentioned previously within
the U.S. Department of Education’s Action Plan. The
support for data-based inquiry presents an
extraordinary opportunity for institutions and
policymakers to take advantage of sound data in key
decision making around student success in college.
SKC, UTEP, and FIU are strong models of how data
can be used to analyze barriers to student success
and to inform decision making. Although campuses
participating in the Lumina MSI-Models of Success
Project have collected data linked to various interim
measures, in most cases completion data are not yet
available. Nevertheless, since participating in this
project, all institutions have begun using data to better
evaluate and support students as well as rethink prior
assumptions and practices related to data and
decision making.
PROGRESS COMPLETION
7
8. 8
BOX 3: LUMINA MSI-MODELS OF SUCCESS GRANTEES
American Indian Higher Education Consortium,
Alexandria, Va.
California State University-Monterey Bay, Monterey,
Calif.
Hartnell College, Salinas, Calif.
Cabrillo College, Aptos, Calif.
Florida International University, Miami, Fla.
Miami Dade College, Miami, Fla.
Jackson State University, Jackson, Miss.
Alcorn State University, Alcorn, Miss.
Dillard University, New Orleans, La.
Hinds Community College, Utica, Miss.
Miles College, Fairfield, Ala.
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Miss.
Salish Kootenai College, Pueblo, Mont.
Fort Peck Community College, Poplar, Mont.
Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, Ga.
University of North Carolina System, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, N.C.
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, N.C.
North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro,
N.C.
North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C.
UNC-Pembroke, Pembroke, N.C.
Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, N.C.
University of Texas-El Paso, El Paso, Texas
El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas
Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas
Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas
*Those in bold indicate the lead institution or
organization.
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committed to promoting access to and success in higher education for all students. Based in
Washington, D.C., IHEP develops innovative policy- and practice-oriented research to guide
policymakers and education leaders, who develop high-impact policies that will address our nation’s
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CONCLUSION
Using data well at MSIs requires investing the time and effort to collect the data, look at the analysis, and assess the
implications, as well as to create or adjust policies based on the findings. With the right type of high-quality data, the ability
to analyze these data, and the capacity to translate analytical findings into policy solutions, MSIs can embark on a
continuous and sustainable process of improvement.
The postsecondary sector has a long history of collecting longitudinal data. Contextual analyses can help institutions
identify areas that need improvement, while deeper analyses can reveal institutional strengths and suggest strategies for
removing barriers to student success. This is only the first step. Institutions should continue to engage their leadership and
strengthen their data systems to enable continuous improvement and sustainability of effective policies and practices.
In this time of tight budgetary constraints and intense college completion initiatives, it is imperative for MSIs to highlight the
uniqueness of their experiences and successes and to use their data not only for internal decision making and
improvement but also to educate external stakeholders. Now and into the future, MSIs should collaborate on and
coordinate their data collection efforts to create a unified MSI message. It is important to consider developing new
measures of success that reflect the effective work of MSIs. As institutions continue to improve their data systems,
researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can better understand the MSI experience. In addition, improved data
collection can provide stronger structures and efforts toward our nation’s goals of increased college completion and student
success.