Dimensional Insight Blog

It’s the question every college or university serious about using analytics to help students succeed asks itself: what does student success look...

With the wealth of data available to colleges and universities about current students, it can be easy to forget that there is just as much...

Technology can only do so much. It can provide incredible insights that organizations might not have imagined possible…but only if the people...

It is a term thrown around every time a school mentions its use of data—analytics will make the institution more “efficient.” But what does that...

Many colleges and universities are using higher ed analytics in one form or another, as they figure out how to best improve student performance or...

With many colleges and universities considering expansion – new buildings, bigger spaces – they are increasingly turning to data analytics for their...

Often the conversation about higher education starts at the college level. But there are many lessons that colleges and universities can learn from...

Recent news from the world of higher education has been a real mixed bag. There was the feel-good story from Morehouse College, where billionaire...

Congratulations to the class of 2019! That’s congratulations for the completion of all the hard work that earned a diploma, and also congratulations...

Student debt is continually in the headlines, and with good reason. In the U.S. alone, more than 44 million people owe $1.5 trillion in student...

It’s a saying we’ve all heard in one history class or another: Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. The maxim can apply to...

It is a tense time in the world of higher education. The schools that aren’t putting pressure on themselves to respond to popular trends and try to...

There are many factors that go into how an instructor uses data at the higher education level. It could simply be that faculty member’s comfort...

It’s often said that when it comes to data in higher education, institutions have more data than they know what to do with. In those instances, it’s...

On the one hand, some courses are so full that extra sections have to be added and students are placed on waitlists. Colleges and universities...

When you think data and analytics, chances are you think numbers. But it’s not just numbers, especially in the field of higher education. Sure,...

Many colleges and universities are focused on using data and analytics to help students succeed. But what does that look like in practice? The...