Performance Measurement and Reporting
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Why outcomes now dominate the college search
Summary: Students increasingly prioritize outcomes like ROI, affordability, and career readiness over traditional campus amenities when choosing colleges. Economic uncertainty and technology, especially AI, drive demand for transparency in program costs and employment prospects. Institutions must promote AI literacy and ethical use to prepare learners for evolving workplaces. Strategic specialization and program portfolio reviews help schools align offerings with workforce needs and financial realities. This shift towards data-driven decision-making and clear communication of post-graduation success is essential for attracting and retaining today’s outcome-focused learners. Observations: Prospective students emphasize tangible return on investment and workforce outcomes over campus...
Indiana colleges, universities eliminate or merge hundreds of degrees that don’t attract enough students
Summary: Indiana’s public universities are eliminating, suspending, or merging 661 degree programs by 2026-27 due to low graduation rates and declining student interest, following state-mandated reviews. Targeted programs represent a small share of enrollments and include associate through doctoral degrees. Students currently enrolled may finish their degrees, but new admissions will cease. These changes aim to streamline offerings, improve alignment with student demand and workforce needs, and enhance program viability and transparency. This reflects a growing trend in higher education to right-size academic portfolios for greater efficiency and relevance amid shifting enrollment patterns. Observations: Degree program reviews are increasingly driven by graduation outcomes and enrollment...
New Regulations Will Impact Graduate Enrollment
Copy.ai Content Summary: The article discusses the impact of new federal regulations introduced by the Biden-Harris administration designed to effect reform in graduate education across the United States. These regulations will hold institutions accountable for the cost of their programs and alumni career outcomes, publishing information about the program cost, average student loan debt, and average alumni earnings three years post-graduation. The Department of Education will also calculate each program's debt-to-earnings ratio, notifying potential students when certain thresholds are crossed. The author suggests that these changes will allow students to compare programs more effectively, emphasize career outcomes, change the appeal of graduate degrees to working professionals, and cause...
How Much Do Students Pay to Attend Your Class?
Citation: Shaffer, Justin. “How Much Do Students Pay to Attend Your Class?” Inside Higher Ed, June 7, 2023. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2023/06/07/why-calculate-how-much-students-pay-your-class-opinion. Extracted Content: Calculating the specific amount might make you—and your students—reconsider how you approach class time, writes Justin Shaffer.
Examining, teaching, and learning in the age of generative AI
Citation: Bieger, Thomas, and Martin Kolmar. “Examining, Teaching, and Learning in the Age of Generative AI.” GlobalFocus, June 5, 2023. https://www.globalfocusmagazine.com/examining-teaching-and-learning-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/. Extracted Content: A first assessment of the consequences for higher education by Thomas Bieger and Martin Kolmar. Chatbots like ChatGPT or GPT 4 raise the question of how generative AI (GAI) will change or add to the competencies our graduates will need in the future world of work, what pedagogical and didactical formats will be required to teach these competencies, and ultimately how it will affect the overall strategies of...
Executive education in charts
Citation: Cremonezi, Leo, and Sam Stephens. “Executive Education in Charts.” Financial Times, May 21, 2023. https://www.ft.com/content/c54573d6-e94b-4936-8a83-c47544c01285. Extracted Content: The charts below, based on data gathered for the 2023 Executive Education Rankings, explore the most frequently taught business school topics, participants’ interests and their evaluations of teaching. Revenues recover after the pandemic hit take-up of lucrative short courses, while students go back to school for in-person learning. And what do open-enrolment course participants look like, from gender, age, seniority and company size to MBA history?
The ROI Riddle – Better Data on Graduates’ Earnings Is Coming Soon to a Dashboard Near You. Will It Make a Difference?
Citation: Gardner, Lee. “The ROI Riddle.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2023. https://www.chronicle.com/article/better-data-on-graduates-earnings-is-coming-soon-to-a-dashboard-near-you-will-it-make-a-difference. Extracted Content: About a decade ago, the higher-ed world rallied around the notion of access. Everyone should go to college! Then it was completion. What’s the point of everyone going to college if too many will drop out, saddled with debt? Now a different concept has taken hold: value. How can colleges demonstrate that what they offer is worth the effort and expense? Attempts to determine the value of a college degree or credential have led to a recent surge of legislative efforts at both the federal and state levels to improve the data available to students on...
Leveraging the Balanced Scorecard for Online MBA Program Development: A Holistic Approach
Citation: Bell III, Thomas, Thomas Nichols, Trisha D. Anderson, and Junghoon Song. “Leveraging the Balanced Scorecard for Online MBA Program Development: A Holistic Approach.” Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, May 6, 2023. https://articlegateway.com/index.php/JHETP/article/view/6013. Extracted Content: Abstract The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation process establishes that a business school meets the high standards set by a peer review board with administrators and faculty members from various accredited colleges and universities. This paper will synthesize the use of the balanced scorecard across four performance dimensions (financial, customer, internal process, and innovation) with the accreditation process for an online MBA...
A Dynamic Strategic Plan Doubles Down on Data
Citation: Keath, Rena, and Melissa Beaven. “A Dynamic Strategic Plan Doubles Down on Data.” AACSB Insights, April 18, 2023. https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/04/a-dynamic-strategic-plan-doubles-down-on-data. Extracted Content: A new unit at the University of Kentucky uses data collection and analytics to streamline operations and accelerate progress toward the school’s long-term goals. Without a well-informed strategic plan, supported by effective data management, a business school will find it far more difficult to achieve its established goals. To strengthen its own strategic planning, the Gatton College of Business and Economics created a new unit to collect relevant data, automate processes, make data accessible, and generate reports for rankings and accreditation. By...
Understanding the ‘Why’ of Data
Citation: Fagnot, Isabelle, and Benjamin Stévenin. “Understanding the ‘Why’ of Data.” AACSB Insights, April 5, 2023. https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/04/understanding-the-why-of-data. Extracted Content: Data management should do more than generate reports for accreditors and regulators. It should turn data into a business school’s most valuable asset. Successful business schools embrace data management as a way to inform their strategic planning, not just produce reports for the purpose of accreditation and governmental compliance. To make data a true asset, business schools must first understand how they can optimize their use of data to drive decision-making and achieve long-term goals. In data-driven academic cultures, leaders take a 360-degree view of the institution, use...
Will ChatGPT Change How Professors Assess Learning?
Citation: Supiano, Beckie. “Will ChatGPT Change How Professors Assess Learning?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2023. https://www.chronicle.com/article/will-chatgpt-change-how-professors-assess-learning. Extracted Content: ChatGPT, which runs on a “large language model,” a word predictor that has been trained with enormous amounts of data, has been greeted as a game changer in many domains. The potential uses of the tool, and others like it, extend far beyond the completion of college coursework. And many professors are excited by the technology’s potential to enhance learning, and perhaps provide needed support to students who start at a disadvantage. There are lots of ways students could use ChatGPT without having it do their work for them, like using it to brainstorm...
Bill would require Ohio colleges and universities to disclose costs, financial aid and alum income to students
Citation: Henry, Megan. “Bill Would Require Ohio Colleges and Universities to Disclose Costs, Financial Aid and Alum Income to Students.” Ohio Capital Journal, March 23, 2023. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/bill-would-require-ohio-colleges-and-universities-to-disclose-costs-financial-aid-and-alum-income-to-students/. Extracted Content: A new higher education bill would require Ohio colleges and universities to be more transparent and forthcoming with costs, financial aid, student loan repayment, and alumni income. House Bill 27 was introduced last month by state Rep. Adam Mathews, R-Lebanon, and state Rep. Jim Thomas, R-Jackson Twp. “This simple common sense bill will help graduating seniors and their families set themselves up for success while highlighting the great value of our...
Percept Research Announces Enhanced Executive Summaries for EMBA Council Members
Citation: Mahoney, Brian. “Percept Research Announces Enhanced Executive Summaries for EMBA Council Members.” Percept Research, March 17, 2023. https://www.mbalifecycle.com/content/embac-executive-summaries. Extracted Content: Percept Research is pleased to announce an updated format for Executive Summaries available to members of the Executive MBA Council that participate in the annual EMBA Program Survey. These industry benchmark summaries are must-have tools that offer concise overviews of the Standard Benchmarking Report, Regional Report, Cost Band Report, or Peer Report. We made significant enhancements to the summaries to better serve leaders of executive MBA programs. The Executive Summaries now feature a wide-screen landscape format with updated data visualizations, focused on...
Universities are failing to capture the value of their data, research finds
Citation: Spitalniak, Laura. “Universities Are Failing to Capture the Value of Their Data, Research Finds.” Higher Ed Dive, January 12, 2023. https://www.highereddive.com/news/universities-fail-capture-data-value-research/640223/?cid=db&source=ams&sourceid=&utm_source=pocket_reader. Extracted Content: Universities underuse the data that is available to them, often because of poor communication among departments, according to new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. Research institutions have access to both academic administrative and research data sets but often lack a centralized repository for all that information, the research found. Investing in the systems and people required to derive the most value possible from data can support transparent...
College Scorecard Has More Information
Jaschik, Scott. “College Scorecard Has More Information.” Inside Higher Ed, February 8, 2022. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/02/08/college-scorecard-has-more-information. Extracted Content: The U.S. Department of Education released updates to the College Scorecard on Monday that it says will make the tool more useful for students and families weighing college options. The tool also includes new and updated information that may be beneficial to school counselors, college access providers, researchers and other critical stakeholders. The department has improved the College Scorecard interactive web tool, in addition to restoring several metrics that help students gauge how their prospective institution compares to other colleges across costs, graduation rates, postcollege...
Graduate Management Education (GME) Admissions Reporting Standards
Graduate Management Admission Council Task Force. “Graduate Management Education (GME)Admissions Reporting Standards.” GMAC.Com (blog), October 31, 2020. https://www.gmac.com/-/media/files/gmac/about-us/member-exclusive-media/gme_reporting_standards_form.pdf. Extracted Content: In January 2019, GMAC responded to requests that they be more active in setting and maintaining industry standards for reporting admissions statistics by forming a new Task Force. This Task Force was charged with reviewing the MBA Reporting Criteria and setting new GME Admissions Reporting Standards that align with today’s best practices. The Task Force released a draft of the Graduate Management Education (GME) Admissions Reporting Standards in June 2019 at the GMAC Annual Conference. In addition to a conference...
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Are You Using Google Analytics to Measure Website Performance?
Are You Using Google Analytics to Measure Website Performance? Do you know where your prospects come from? How about how many come each day, each week, or each month? Or do you know how many visitors your program’s website has each day, each week, or each month? If you don’t know, you should because these are the leading indicators for applications for any graduate program. Yes, there are other indicators, but these are a significant starting point. The reason many program leaders can’t answer these questions is because their program’s website is part of the campus website that’s under the control of IT or a website administrator and they do not share the data. There is an easy fix for these situations, and it’s called Google Analytics. Assuming you are not getting your program’s website...
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