Improving student success metrics like persistence, graduation, learning, and career outcomes is core for institutions in all sectors of higher education and consistently tops the priority lists of presidents, provosts, and business leaders. More recently, student success has become of interest and concern to IT leaders, who support technology components of student progress such as early-warning systems, advising platforms, and analytics tools.
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IT is foundational to student success effortsThe increasing attention to student success at the institutional level has involved stakeholders across the administrative and academic realm. Many individuals and departments are responsible for aspects of student success, but IT leaders have impact across all units because they support the data collection and storage, advanced analyses, and delivery mechanisms that make planning and intervention possible.
IT can provide data that will allow stakeholders to see how specific processes, interim outcomes, interactions, and behaviors affect long-term outcomes. Most institutions are only beginning to leverage technologies and systems that record this information. As a result, CIOs have an opportunity to structure, coordinate, and deliver this new data to partners in the academy as well as support offices.
Lots of technology investments, but poor usageWhile more institutions and leaders have come to realize that classroom…