Educause’s data-governance plan pushes university transparency
Institutions should strive for centralized data governance units led by a chief data and analytics officer, a report suggests.
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Data-informed policing solves marijuana mystery at Utah State
Police at Utah State University’s police department used data analyses to find the source of a marijuana smell that had riled the community.
Education Dept. urged to collect race data
Collecting more race and ethnicity data would help track the impact of a looming Supreme Court judgement on college admissions, advocates say.
MIT reinstates SAT and ACT requirements to help predict student success
MIT will once again require prospective students to submit SAT or ACT scores after a two-year pause prompted by the pandemic.
Data & Analytics — A StateScoop & EdScoop Special Report
Data and analytics are growing in influence in the public sector as more organizations seek concrete answers to their most difficult policy questions.
After two years of COVID-19, data guides university mental-health support
Data is playing a key role in how colleges and universities understand the challenges their students are facing — and how institutions can help.
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For student success, institutions need better data
Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, universities will need to think more critically about how they approach data to drive student success, experts say.
Florida selects data vendor for workforce education push
The software company Pairin is developing software that its CEO said could "change everything" about how funds are directed to various educational and training institutions in Florida.
Enabling student success with tech at universities requires care
Higher education technology experts said universities adopted broader technology toolkits in recent months, but supporting students requires precision.
EAB launches ‘Edify’ to help higher ed unify scattered data
The University of Montana is among the first to use a new data platform that administrators said will help track critical metrics, like student success.