Reviews
From the perspective of someone who works at a higher education membership association, this is the type of content our members are asking for. How Colleges Use Data provides guidelines, templates, and plans for how to implement analytics on campuses.
A comprehensive analysis of how colleges and universities can use analytics and data to enhance overall institutional effectiveness with a salient focus on improving student success and learning. This resource book will help higher education leaders implement, leverage, and advance a sustained culture of evidence through the use of data and analytics.
To increase equitable student success in American higher education, this book artfully illuminates the evidence-based pathways and tools to improve our college and university systems and outcomes.
A must-read for all who strive to fulfill the promise of higher education! This book outshines others in its vivid description of how colleges can leverage institutional culture to drive data-informed, transformational outcomes for their students and communities. The conceptual framework is clear and the images of success are inspiring.
Gagliardi provides a comprehensive playbook for the creation and ethical adoption of a scalable culture of data that focuses on defining evidence-based, equity-driven aspirations, strengthening academic quality, enhancing teaching and learning, resource optimization strategies, and implementation and planning. How Colleges Use Data fills a major gap in the scholarship.
Gagliardi demystifies today's buzzwords, including big data, AI, and predictive analytics, and provides wide-ranging examples of how leaders can use data to improve performance. Crucially, Gagliardi asks us to understand that effective data use depends upon a strong culture of evidence across the institution. It is the creation of that culture that will unlock the power of data.
Gagliardi surveys all aspects of contemporary higher education data use, but that's just the starting point of this enlightening book for campus leaders. His deep dives with examples, including why and how to empower department chairs, implement data governance, and bring along the campus, make it an essential data roadmap.
Book Details
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Evidence Imperative
Chapter 2. Demystifying Data and Analytics
Chapter 3. Defining an Institutional Aspiration Using Data
Chapter 4. Equity and Student Success
Chapter
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Evidence Imperative
Chapter 2. Demystifying Data and Analytics
Chapter 3. Defining an Institutional Aspiration Using Data
Chapter 4. Equity and Student Success
Chapter 5. Strategic Finance and Resource Optimization
Chapter 6. Academic Quality and Renewal
Chapter 7. Creating a Data Governance System
Chapter 8. The Promise and Peril of Data and Analytics
Chapter 9. Implementation and Planning
Chapter 10. Looking Ahead
Notes
Index