Show Me the Data! Building a Culture of Inquiry and Evidence Kay McClenney, Program Director, Sid W. Richardson Endowed Fellow, Director, SENSE and CCCSE, Community College Leadership Program, The University of Texas at Austin; and Byron McClenney, Project Director, Achieving the Dream, Community College Leadership Program, and Senior Lecturer, Fellow, Community College Leadership Endowment, [...]
April 2011 Does this sound familiar? Data are not accessible—only a small group of people know what’s there, how to get to it, and what to do with it. Data are siloed, and how/where they are stored (index card?) varies greatly across the institution Strategic decisions are sometimes 100% not strategic, like a 15% across-the-board [...]
Money Grows on TREEs January 2011 A Technology Review for Efficiency and Effectiveness (TREE) helps college leaders identify cost savings and service improvements to enhance student outcomes. “Higher education institutions are excellent at teaching, research and public service. However, affecting student outcomes by increasing the effectiveness and efficiency within the IT dollars they are currently [...]
Giving College Students a Monster Advantage November 2010 What do University of Maine, SUNY-Alfred State College, Texas State Technical College-Waco, and Ohio Northern University have in common? It’s obviously not location, not degrees or majors offered, not even campus size. Yes, they all serve the educational needs of their students in unique and effective [...]
Raising the Bar on Completion September 2010 Diane Troyer, Senior Program Officer Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (WA) After nearly 10 years of focused attention on improving high school graduation rates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation realized that high school improvement alone was not enough to improve access to opportunity in America. From [...]
June 2010 Listen in as Evelyn Waiwaiole, Suanne Davis Roueche, NISOD Director, and Gordon Freedman, Vice President of Global Education Strategy, Blackboard discuss The Blackboard Institute's research and key findings for effective practices in online programs.
Lessons from Legends: Leadership and Learning George Boggs, President/Chief Executive Officer, American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) (DC); John E. Roueche, Sid W. Richardson Regents Chair in Community College Leadership, The University of Texas at Austin
Raising the Bar on Completion Diane Troyer, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (WA)
The Role of Faculty in the Accreditation Process Belle Wheelan, President, Commission on Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (GA)
Terms of Engagement: Surviving and Thriving in Today’s College Classroom Elizabeth Barkley, Instructor, Music, Foothill College (CA)