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As we strive to make annual assessment meaningful and manageable, we must evolve ongoing processes based on our unique students, curricula, resources and culture. Learn More ➔ Featured | July 10, 2020 Make it Easy: Creating a Simple Online Giving Experience Whether it’s your Annual Fund, Capital Campaign, Day of Giving, or a campaign connected to your crowdfunding pages, the common goal is to generate gifts, to create cash, to make money for your institution. This means you need to drive donors to your online giving page (or form) and move them all the way through the process to the finish page. Learn More ➔ Featured | July 10, 2020 The Essential Role of Co-curricular Programs in Student Success, Retention, Persistence and Graduation Student Success is often used as short-hand for the larger retention-persistence-graduation (RPG) conversation. The term student success can refer to a wide variety of things including precollege characteristics, quantifiable student attainment indicators, measures of academic achievement and personal and student development characteristics. Learn More ➔ Featured | June 20, 2020 Institutional Effectiveness in Action: 5 Tips for Success with Learning Datasets Within the first hour of almost every assessment consultation session I facilitate, the same question deflates the air in the room: ‘How does your institution use learning data to improve the student experience?’ Learn More ➔ Featured | June 11, 2020 Navigating Risk and Opportunity: A Strategic Enterprise Approach Over the past several years, numerous institutions have dealt with high profile risks and the resulting disastrous after-effects: hurricanes, mass shootings, suicides, sexual abuse, hate crimes and more. Learn More ➔ Featured | June 8, 2020 Five Activities to Effectively Lead and Manage Change Changes can vary in complexity—from simple processes to intricate transformations. As higher education seeks to address the forces of change triggering significant shifts in operations, institutions are considering... Learn More ➔ Featured | June 4, 2020 Margin Management: Balancing Your Institution’s Finances with Academic Economics Establishing the balance between educating effectively and operating efficiently is both more essential and more difficult than ever. Especially in today’s climate, margin management is crucial to helping your institution function. Learn More ➔ Featured | June 4, 2020 Embracing Virtual Engagement: 5 Lessons for Keeping Students Involved With the shift to more virtual learning and engagement over the spring semester, campuses responded with crisis management policies to ensure students are supported with the appropriate resources. Student development theory helps practitioners examine how the environment plays a large factor in the success of a student in the classroom. Learn More ➔ Featured | June 2, 2020 Making Sense of Your Institution's Finances: Q&A with Academic Economics Creator Michael Leardi Learn More ➔ Featured | May 21, 2020 Follow the Data: How Campuses Use Assessment in Times of Change Campuses have shared a great variety of ways the pandemic has impacted assessment. Some reported a heightened emphasis on data and an increase in activity—others said they cancelled assessments and lowered expectations. Learn More ➔ Featured | May 19, 2020 Ask Bigger Questions of your Course Evaluation Data As we think back on the first half of 2020, one thing is certain: the sudden and unexpected transition of so many college campuses to remote instruction has unavoidably impacted student learning. Learn More ➔ Featured | April 23, 2020 Do Course Evaluations Still Matter in a Pandemic? 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Featured | January 30, 2024 How Faculty Feedback Shaped the Creation of Flex Grading in Blackboard Learn Learn More ➔
Featured | July 13, 2020 Setting Up Assessment Year to Year: Five Key Questions The summer months provide an opportunity to reset, reflect and re-examine many of our institutional processes. As we strive to make annual assessment meaningful and manageable, we must evolve ongoing processes based on our unique students, curricula, resources and culture. Learn More ➔
Featured | July 10, 2020 Make it Easy: Creating a Simple Online Giving Experience Whether it’s your Annual Fund, Capital Campaign, Day of Giving, or a campaign connected to your crowdfunding pages, the common goal is to generate gifts, to create cash, to make money for your institution. This means you need to drive donors to your online giving page (or form) and move them all the way through the process to the finish page. Learn More ➔
Featured | July 10, 2020 The Essential Role of Co-curricular Programs in Student Success, Retention, Persistence and Graduation Student Success is often used as short-hand for the larger retention-persistence-graduation (RPG) conversation. The term student success can refer to a wide variety of things including precollege characteristics, quantifiable student attainment indicators, measures of academic achievement and personal and student development characteristics. Learn More ➔
Featured | June 20, 2020 Institutional Effectiveness in Action: 5 Tips for Success with Learning Datasets Within the first hour of almost every assessment consultation session I facilitate, the same question deflates the air in the room: ‘How does your institution use learning data to improve the student experience?’ Learn More ➔
Featured | June 11, 2020 Navigating Risk and Opportunity: A Strategic Enterprise Approach Over the past several years, numerous institutions have dealt with high profile risks and the resulting disastrous after-effects: hurricanes, mass shootings, suicides, sexual abuse, hate crimes and more. Learn More ➔
Featured | June 8, 2020 Five Activities to Effectively Lead and Manage Change Changes can vary in complexity—from simple processes to intricate transformations. As higher education seeks to address the forces of change triggering significant shifts in operations, institutions are considering... Learn More ➔
Featured | June 4, 2020 Margin Management: Balancing Your Institution’s Finances with Academic Economics Establishing the balance between educating effectively and operating efficiently is both more essential and more difficult than ever. Especially in today’s climate, margin management is crucial to helping your institution function. Learn More ➔
Featured | June 4, 2020 Embracing Virtual Engagement: 5 Lessons for Keeping Students Involved With the shift to more virtual learning and engagement over the spring semester, campuses responded with crisis management policies to ensure students are supported with the appropriate resources. Student development theory helps practitioners examine how the environment plays a large factor in the success of a student in the classroom. Learn More ➔
Featured | June 2, 2020 Making Sense of Your Institution's Finances: Q&A with Academic Economics Creator Michael Leardi Learn More ➔
Featured | May 21, 2020 Follow the Data: How Campuses Use Assessment in Times of Change Campuses have shared a great variety of ways the pandemic has impacted assessment. Some reported a heightened emphasis on data and an increase in activity—others said they cancelled assessments and lowered expectations. Learn More ➔
Featured | May 19, 2020 Ask Bigger Questions of your Course Evaluation Data As we think back on the first half of 2020, one thing is certain: the sudden and unexpected transition of so many college campuses to remote instruction has unavoidably impacted student learning. Learn More ➔
Featured | April 23, 2020 Do Course Evaluations Still Matter in a Pandemic? As institutions adapted to this new educational environment, the question arose: Should we still conduct end-of-term course evaluations? Many have weighed in on the merits of hearing from learners... Learn More ➔