How UW-Eau Claire uses metrics to help departments track progress on student outcomes

As student success becomes an increasingly pressing imperative, one of the greatest challenges facing universities is how to instill localized accountability for institution-wide performance metrics. These high-level student success goals can paralyze faculty and staff, who lack clarity on how their individual decisions can inflect large-scale patterns of student behavior. How can academic leaders evaluate every unit on actionable goals, and help them track their progress toward strategic imperatives?

Evaluate departments on concrete, specific metrics