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Re:University Reflections (Part 2): Program Costing is No Longer an Academic Exercise

Program costing isn't new, institutions have been talking about it for decades. At Re:University the conversation changed. Program costing was seen as a tool for shared decision-making...Research presented suggested starting with fewer variables can be just as effective as building complex models.

Looking Back at AI-Cademy and Looking Ahead to Re-University

Institutions, faculty members, and students have learned where AI can assist and where it isn't ideal. This technology is advancing so fast that what we knew yesterday could change tomorrow. But it's likely here to stay, so we should figure out how we leverage it and where we don't.

6 Keys to Power BI Success

A good business intelligence design tool makes learning a data

When "Very Good" Isn't Good Enough: Data Quality in Surveys

Survey participation is an investment — in staff time, in student time, and in institutional strategy. The value of lean, comparable data isn't just in your own data, but what you learn when you can trust the comparison.

7 Practices Research & Data Analysts Can Learn from DIY-ers

Research and data analysts in higher education, like many public sectors, find themselves doing a lot with a little. Just like tinkerers and DIY-ers you call up about a problem with your sink, analysts are problem-solvers in the student information and processing neighborhoods of their institutions.

6 Steps to Developing a Metric to Understand Course Compaction

Just as strategic enrolment management looks at metrics at the institutional, department, program, and course level, so too should course compaction and curriculum offerings be understood at different levels of aggregation.

6 Indicators of Healthy Course Compaction

In the continuation of the series on course compaction for strategic enrolment management, this post discusses what student and course metrics might indicate healthy course compaction.

Course Compaction: Indicators of Negative Compaction

Course compaction can improve student program progression rates by streamlining course offerings, but as with any enrolment management initiative, there must be metrics developed to evaluate its effectiveness.

Using Technology in Academic Advising to Empower Students

As technology shapes how we find information, I wanted to know what social media says about academic advising. Most Tiktok videos tagged with #academicadvising were negative. How can institutions use technology to change the story told on social media?

What Programs Do We Even Offer?

Working in Institutional Research, I often was asked questions around “What programs do you offer?”, or “How many programs are there?”. You’d be surprised that answering these questions is not as easy as it sounds.