Universities experience challenges in fully utilizing data to improve performance

Institutional research offices at public colleges and universities that are part of state systems focused more heavily on data collection and report writing than on analysis and communication, and spend far more of their time examining student retention and graduation than issues related to campuses’ use of money, people and facilities, the National Association of System Heads says in a new report. http://www.nashonline.org/sites/default/files/attachments/nash-ir-report.pdf

The study, based on surveys of campus and system IR officials and interviews with campus leaders, says that IR officials themselves are more confident than their bosses are about whether the institutional research offices can adapt to the increased demands on their institutions to use data to improve their performance.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/04/01/mixed-assessment-institutional-research-offices#ixzz2xjihYvAz
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