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Client Spotlight: Grayson College
How do you engage faculty with data? Give them data that’s relevant to them, create data summits, and maybe even have them present to the board(!) Learn how Grayson College changed their culture and dramatically improved their course completion and retention rates
Integrating Labor Market Outcome Data
More and more colleges are looking at how well students do after they graduate. However these data are hard to get and integrate. What have other colleges done and how has ZogoTech helped? Unemployment Insurance (UI) records One of our colleges was able to get UI records from the state showing how much students were ...
There’s More to Corequisite Success Than Just Designing the Right Courses
Our last two blogs talked about Complete College America’s recent findings regarding corequisite courses, where students needing remedial education enroll directly into college-level courses and receive academic support alongside their regular classes. Let’s look at this issue a bit more, from how students are identified for corequisite enrollment to what happens AFTER they take ... ZogoTech + Achieving the Dream: 3 Case Studies
In working with 50 community colleges over ten years, we’ve had the opportunity to partner with a number of Achieving the Dream institutions. In many ways, it’s an obvious pairing — becoming a data-driven college and creating a culture of evidence rely on the ability to give end users access to comprehensive data on students, ... Odessa College: Increased Graduation, Aspen Rising Star
Creating a culture of evidence at Odessa College (OC) was the result of deliberate change within the institution. “Our president and board of trustees made a conscious decision to become more data driven,” says Don Wood, PhD, Dean of Institutional Effectiveness. “And it was that decision that led, first and foremost, to the relationship between ...
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 ...