Description
Book SynopsisWhat does a culture of evidence really look like in higher education?The use of big data and the rapid acceleration of storage and analytics tools have led to a revolution of data use in higher education. Institutions have moved from relying largely on historical trends and descriptive data to the more widespread adoption of predictive and prescriptive analytics. Despite this rapid evolution of data technology and analytics tools, universities and colleges still face a number of obstacles in their data use. In How Colleges Use Data, Jonathan S. Gagliardi presents college and university leaders with an important resource to help cultivate, implement, and sustain a culture of evidence through the ethical and responsible use and adoption of data and analytics. Gagliardi provides a broad context for data use among colleges, including key concepts and use cases related to data and analytics. He also addresses the different dimensions of data use and highlights the promise and perils of the
Table of ContentsPreface
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
