IPEDS Report Automation Strengthens Data Quality and Strategic Decision-Making
Northampton Community College's Partnership with Edify
Impact Highlights
10
Templatized IPEDS reports
75%
Reduction in manual effort
10
Days to build automation
Challenge
Northampton’s Institutional Research team faced a yearly scramble: IPEDS reporting required too much manual work tracking data across multiple systems. As Steph Druckenmiller, Executive Director of Enterprise Technologies, noted: “It used to take two people weeks to piece together the IPEDS submission from scratch every year.”
Solution
In a 10-day sprint, Edify and Northampton’s teams collaborated to templatize 10 IPEDS reports, align Workday data to federal definitions, and create automated exports ready for review and submission. As a result, the team automated 10 IPEDS-aligned reports and Northampton submitted their validated IPEDS report on time.
Impact
“It feels like a weight off our shoulders. There’s a shared understanding now— no more chasing the data through one person’s memory.“
BRIAN GARDNER, CIO
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
With Edify, Northampton transformed compliance into a catalyst for collaboration, data governance, and strategic decision-making. The Northampton IR, Enrollment, and IT teams now share a single source of truth, enabling leadership to use reliable data to guide planning and resource decisions. Through automated logic and structured validation, the team has ensured trusted, consistent data in every IPEDS cycle.
Breaking the Cycle of From-Scratch Report Creation
How a 10-Day Sprint Delivered a 75% Faster, Repeatable, and Reliable Process
10 Days to Build Automation
Scoping
10 Reports
IPEDS
Standards
Exports in
Edify
IPEDS
Reports On
Time
There was urgency to meet the immediate IPEDS deadline, but the real driver was eliminating a fragile, person-dependent process and replacing it with something repeatable for every future cycle.
Brian Gardner, Chief Information Officer
Streamlined, Scalable, and Stress-Free
How Northampton Created an Automated Process to Prepare IPEDS Data
Turning Compliance Into Campuswide Confidence
With Edify, Northampton transformed compliance into a catalyst for:
Data Confidence
Automated logic and structured validation ensures trusted, consistent data every cycle
Collaboration
IR, Enrollment, and IT now share a single source of truth
Strategic Decision-Making
Leadership uses reliable data to guide planning and resource decisions
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