PDF How Colleges Use Data (Higher Ed Leadership Essentials) Ipad

PDF How Colleges Use Data (Higher Ed Leadership Essentials) Ipad
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What 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
widespread adoption of data and analytics, in addition to important elements of
implementing and scaling a culture of evidence.Demystifying data and
analytics, the book helps faculty and administrators understand important
topics, including: How to define institutional aspirations using data Equity and
student success Strategic finance and resource optimization Academic quality
and integrity Data governance and utility Implicit and explicit bias in data
Implementation and planning How data will be used in the futureHow Colleges
Use Data helps college and university leaders understand what a culture of
evidence in higher education truly looks like.