Leadership & StratEDgy

Ask most alumni relations professionals the secret of success and they will have a common refrain.

With online courses and new data systems on the rise, higher ed institutions are generating more data than ever before. While there are aspects of this movement that are truly promising, one reality is that we are making many assumptions about student behavior when interpreting some of this data.

These past few months have been a bit of a reading frenzy.

We have teaching evaluations to measure how students perceive faculty, grades to measure student success in the classroom, number of applicants, yield rate and (sometimes) retention to measure admissions, and fundraising/participation to measure success in development. But how do you measure success in student affairs?

It was the first “moon shot” for U.S. higher education.

First the good news: The need for management education is unlikely to go away anytime soon.

Last week we invited you to vote on the most important topics in higher education. We are seeing some consistent areas of interest.

Well, you asked for it and we will commit to doing it.