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Hot Topic: The Student Debt Crisis
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...
The Past Predicts the Future: How Predictive Analytics Can Help Schools with Retention
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...
Lessons Learned from a Technological Transformation Gone Wrong
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...
3 Ways Higher Education Instructors Can Make Better Use of Data
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...
Higher Education and Government: Working Together for the Public Good
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...
What Colleges and Universities are Doing to Help Students Manage Debt
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...
How Colleges and Universities Use Surveys To Gather Student Data
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,...
How Analytics Can Help Guide Student Interventions
Many colleges and universities are focused on using data and analytics to help students succeed. But what does that look like in practice? The...
Higher Ed: The New Kid on the Blockchain
Recently, JPMorgan Chase became the first major United States bank to introduce its own digital coin. This, in addition to JPMorgan’s blockchain...
How Higher Education Is Building Up Data Science Programs
With plenty of jobs on the horizon — and higher salaries to go along with those jobs – it’s no surprise that data science is among the most popular...
How Ole Miss Is Using Data to Identify Students at Academic Risk
Recently EDUCAUSE spotlighted institutions where IT leaders have been helping their organizations make increasingly information-based decisions. The...
Venturing Into New Territory: How Universities Use Analytics For Real Estate
If it seems like you’re constantly hearing about the expansion of institutes of higher education, it’s probably because you are. Expanding a campus...
Data Analytics: One Solution for Many Markets
We live in a world of data. If you pay close attention, you will see everything around us is composed of numbers. Digits appear in their own...
How Dalarna University Uses Analytics to Turn Data Into Insight
While in the United States many higher education institutions struggle with exactly how best to use the data they collect, in some European...
3 Ways Technology Will Impact Higher Education In 2019
It’s the end of the calendar year, which means it’s time for holidays, bowl games, and lists. Lots of end-of-year lists. Tweet: 3 ways technology...
How a New Study Could Revolutionize the Use of Data in Higher Education
One of the biggest complaints about analytics use in higher education is that schools have tons of data, but they just don’t know how to use it to...
How Universities Use Analytics for Hiring
There’s no perfect solution to hiring. Sometimes someone who looks great on paper is a disappointment in person, and it’s possible the ideal...
Recommendations on How to Measure Student Success in Universities
In a previous blog post, we talked about the Top 10 issues in IT, the list put out each year by EDUCAUSE at its annual conference. Another...
Data is at the Heart of the 2019 EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues
The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is one of the country’s largest gatherings in higher education IT, drawing more than 8,000 people from 46 different...