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Wentz, Meridith; Brown, Amanda; Sweat, Jeff – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2018
As tuition rates for higher education rise, universities are under increased pressure from internal and external stakeholders to document outcomes such as graduation rates. To do so, higher education institutions must use data effectively. This paper examines the University of Wisconsin--Stout's (UW-Stout) strategies for data use in the…
Descriptors: Data, Information Utilization, Organizational Change, Accountability
Beassie, Rhonda Vickers – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
This chapter asserts that the use and reporting of institutional research (IR) data is an area ripe for litigation. The chapter explores possible student causes of action as they relate to institutional research (IR) data and compares the probable outcomes to reported student lawsuits. The chapter concludes with recommended liability-avoiding…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Rhetoric, Information Utilization, Legal Problems
Palucki Blake, Laura – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
This chapter discusses principles that support using data about teaching and learning and offers several strategies particularly well suited for use by institutional researchers at small colleges in helping faculty, staff, and administrators use data on student learning for improvement.
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Educational Principles, Institutional Research, Small Colleges
O'Keefe, Molly Eleanor – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The higher education sector today faces an environment unlike any it has seen before. Serving a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders and facing diverse and fast-changing economic, social, and political pressures, universities can benefit from corporate-like approaches such as the use of analytics to inform strategic decision-making…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Social Systems, Politics of Education
Prewitt-Freilino, Polly A.; Rush, Nathan A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
Strong relationships with senior administrators, effective cross-campus collaboration, and efficient use of technology are central to impactful IR in small colleges.
Descriptors: Data, Information Utilization, Institutional Research, Partnerships in Education
Swing, Randy L. – Association for Institutional Research, 2016
The need for data-informed decisions is not limited to national policy, state systems, or senior leadership of postsecondary institutions. Decisions that impact the achievement of higher education missions are also made by students, faculty, frontline staff, and program administrators--all of who deserve data and information to support their…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Information Utilization, Higher Education, Data Collection
Ma, Yanli; Kulich, James; Hu, Shouping – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2015
This chapter focuses on perspectives of external data reporting and their implications for institutional research offices and campuses as a whole. The authors examine a variety of uses for externally reported data and explore opportunities for using these data more fully across the institution.
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Information Policy, Disclosure, Accountability
Torii, Tomoko; Okada, Yuji – Higher Education Forum, 2017
This article reports the results of a nationwide questionnaire survey of 1,104 Japanese higher education institutions conducted in late 2015 and early 2016. Its goal was to investigate the current status and issues related to the utilization and disclosure of educational information. A total of 248 institutions responded to the survey. Based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Utilization
Lebesch, Anna M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2012
The community college environment is complex and dynamic, requiring constant monitoring. To ensure that workforce education, a core component of community colleges' missions, remains aligned with colleges' environments, responsive to employers' needs, suited to students' interests and abilities, and current in content and technology, it is…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Evaluation, Information Utilization, Labor Market
Clapp, Marlene; Young, Michael – College and University, 2010
Bridgewater State University (BSU) is a public institution that falls under the Carnegie classification of Master's Colleges and Universities. BSU is committed to serving students in the New England region. This student population includes a sizeable number of underrepresented students. BSU is dealing with intense pressure to serve these students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Institutional Research, Identification, Classification
Lester, Cathe – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Institutional researchers are responsible for the collection, organization, analysis, and maintenance of large amounts of personally identifiable data on students, faculty, and staff. Not only are institutional research (IR) offices required to report these data to state and federal agencies, they are also responsible for providing information to…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Researchers, Personnel Data, Statistical Data
Grove, Crissie M. – Grantee Submission, 2009
As demand for information on postsecondary education has increased, institutions have had to adapt information systems to accurately report data. Institutions currently respond to multiple constituencies including national media outlets, higher education associations, state regulatory authorities, and federal agencies. The purpose of this study is…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Data Collection, Information Utilization, Computer Software

Ewell, Peter T. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1989
Before communicating any information, institutional researchers should answer four diagnostic questions: Who's asking? What for? What's the proper medium? What happens next? (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Higher Education, Information Utilization

Fayerman, Michael – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2002
Presents an approach increasingly employed by businesses to track and respond to their customers to provide better and faster services: customer relationship management. Discusses its applicability to the operations of higher education and institutional research and the role it plays in the knowledge management framework. (EV)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Information Utilization

Borden, Victor M. H.; Delaney, Edward L. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1989
Most decisions are made not by individuals but by groups. Knowing how the group process works and how information enters it can improve the quality of decisions, and can enhance the institutional researcher's role as data supplier and lead methodologist. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Information Utilization