According to a recent study from magazine , total higher education enrollment has declined by almost 7.5 percent since 2019. “No tool or technology is ever going to be a direct correlation to institutional outcomes, but moving to a more advanced maturity level in terms of data availability, data application, data-informed decision-making and data-based policy does certainly help move the needle. What we saw was a maturation of how our leaders, our advisers and our frontline student services staff used data.”Simon said the university’s emphasis on data analytics has also helped to speed up degree attainment for first-time higher ed students and undergraduate transfer students. For example, the university reported a drop from an average of 4.6 to 4.2 years to earn a degree, and a three-year graduation rate jump from about 2 to 12 percent from 2012 to 2022. “We’ve been able to leverage the tools and think about how we can apply them into the actual day-to-day lives of the faculty and staff who work here at the institution to make a real difference.”

Source: Forbes April 11, 2023 05:02 UTC