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Brazosport College named among Top 10 Community Colleges
Brazosport College, located in Lake Jackson, TX, has been named a finalist for the Aspen Institute’s prestigious Aspen Prize. Recognized along with nine other community colleges, BC has been using ZogoTech solutions to integrate data into everyday decision making. ZogoTech, a leading provider of data warehousing and business intelligence solutions for higher education, has worked ...
New Insights on Student Success
We talked to three clients about how they’re using ZogoTech to improve student success. ZogoTech: Reinventing Campus Analytics from ZogoTech on Vimeo.
How do you decide?
Whether in our personal or professional lives, there is a drive to choose the correct course of action. Everyone wants to make good decisions, but the path to those decisions is difficult to navigate. After decisions are made, measuring their success can be equally complex. New studies and insights from psychologists, behavioral economists, neuroscientists, and ... Implementing the Best Practices in Dashboard Design
The visual display of information is meant to enhance our understanding of reality, to present facts so that we can complete a picture or answer a question. Often times however, such displays can be more misleading than informative. 3D funnels like the image below encapsulate this problem. Without looking at the numbers, take a minute ... North Central Texas College: Foundations of an Institutional Scorecard
North Central Texas College is the oldest continually operating, publicly supported two-year college in Texas. Founded in 1924 as a rural junior college, NCTC has matured into a comprehensive, full-service community college of truly regional scope. The college, which includes three campuses serving over 11,000 students, needed to provide readily accessible data to executives so ...
Southwest Texas Junior College: Proactive Intervention
Southwest Texas Junior College needed to institute a multi-campus campaign to identify at-risk students in order to proactively contact them through email, traditional mail, and phone. They also wanted to measure the results to see how effective the campaign was at ensuring the ongoing success of these students. As Dean of Admissions and Student Services, ...
McLennan Community College: Taking Risks with Data
McLennan Community College had a hunch. While enrollment of online courses had almost doubled in two years, the attrition rate was 10 to 15 percent higher than face-to-face courses. The administrators were ready to invest significant dollars for an intervention program that would slow the online attrition rate. While MCC was used to making decisions ...
Bunker Hill Community College: Creating a Culture of Evidence
Nationally, about half of students who enroll in two-year colleges drop out before their second year. Recently, community-colleges, along with leadership at the state and federal level, have acknowledged that such trends must be reversed. As the largest community college in Massachusetts, serving more than 13,600 students and spanning a 42-acre flagship campus in ... Western Texas College: Specific Metrics Targeted at Student Success
With a main campus and a downtown location focused on workforce development and community service, Western Texas is committed to helping students reach their potential. WTC serves 2,300 students across ten counties and was listed as the fastest growing community college in the state by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. WTC began using ...
Bunker Hill Community College: Improving Student Outcomes
As the largest community college in Massachusetts, serving more than 13,600 students in the greater Boston area, BHCC seeks to become a national model for successfully incorporating the diversity of many cultures, age groups, and learning styles into college life. In 2006, BHCC received a Title III grant and determined to tackle its core institutional goal ...