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Webber Featured at AIR Knowledge Exchange Event

Karen Webber and co-editor Henry Zheng led a recent AIR Knowledge Exchange Event to share information from their book, Big Data on Campus: Data Analytics and Decision Making in Higher Education. The panel presentation aired on Tuesday, November 24 from 3-4pm. Christine Keller, executive director & CEO of the Association for Institutional Research moderated the event. Check out more opportunities to view Knowledge Exchange events at:…

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IHE at ASHE 2020

The theme of this year's ASHE virtual conference is "Advancing Full Participation," and the IHE community has responded in a big way. Check out the sessions below. More information at https://www.ashe.ws/schedule2020.  IHE is a proud ASHE 2020 breakout room sponsor. Preconference Programming The Landscape of Performance-Based Funding Policies (Paper co-written by Alex Cassell, MEd 2019, et al.) PBF Policy Design and College Access and…
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Webber Discusses Actionable Analytics at NACUBO

Karen Webber is part of the opening panel session on November 9 for NACUBO’s virtual Integrated Analytics Planning Conference. The session is titled Actionable Analytics for Changing Times and includes additional panel members Henry Zheng, and Carrie Klein. The panelists will discuss ways that higher education leaders can leverage data to meet their institutions’ goals in a constantly evolving environment charged by budget cuts and pandemic…
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New Book by Karen Webber Released

A new book on the use of data analytics, edited by Karen Webber and Henry Y. Zheng, has been released by Johns Hopkins Press. Using a series of focused discussions and case studies, Big Data on Campus: Data Analytics and Decision Making in Higher Education, helps readers understand how analytics can support major organizational functions in higher education, including admission decisions, retention and enrollment management,…

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Gándara Sheds Light on Importance of Markup Process

Denisa Gándara (PhD 2016) and Sosanya Jones investigate how policymakers use discursive strategies in advocating higher education policy in "Who Deserves Benefits in Higher Education?: A Policy Discourse Analysis of a Process Surrounding Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act." The paper appears in the fall 2020 issue of Review of Higher Education. Using the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through Education Reform (…

Tim Cain
Cain Releases Study of AAUP Reports

A research paper by Tim Cain appears in the fall 2020 issue of Review of Higher Education. In "Collective Bargaining and Committee A: Five Decades of Unionism and Academic Freedom," Cain uses 50 years of reports by the American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure to unravel the complicated relationship between unionization and academic freedom on college campuses.…

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Hearn Expands Higher Ed Metaphors

In an essay, "Reframing Decision Making in the Current Crisis," published by the TIAA Institute, Jim Hearn challenges industrial production rubrics and labels often applied to gage the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education institutions. Instead, he advises his students (current and future higher education leaders) to think more broadly about the role of our colleges and universities, "not…

George Spencer
Spencer Quoted in EducationDive

George Spencer is quoted in "How 2- and 4-year colleges can boost spring enrollment" in EducationDive. Spencer's research of articulation agreements that define how credits transfer between schools (particularly between two-year and four-year higher education institutions) indicates an important part of convincing students to re-engage with higher education during the pandemic. "While colleges have been more flexible for students coming directly…

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Webber & Burns Research Grad Student Debt

Karen Webber and Rachel Burns (PhD 2018) appear in Research in Higher Education. Noting the upward trend in borrowing among graduate and professional students, Webber and Burns investigate the implications on students and institutions and on policy development.  Using data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data (IPEDS), their study examines educational debt…
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Amy Stich
Stich Publishes Tracking Research

Research on tracking systems in post-secondary education by Amy Stich appears in the Journal of Higher Education. Her paper, "Beneath the White Noise of Postsecondary Sorting: A Case Study of the 'Low' Track in Higher Education," tackles the seemingly benign language used to perpetuate "organizational foundations, hierarchies, and processes that are constituting and constituted by race." Stich collected data during the 2016–2017 academic year at…
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