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Reiterating the Challenge – And the Opportunity
Linda Baer, Minnesota State Colleges and UniversitiesDonald M. Norris, Strategic Initiatives, Inc.
Why Are We Here and Who Has Been Invited?
• Thought leaders and authors• Trustees and institutional leaders• Leading institutional practitioners• Political leaders and policy makers• Foundations and national associations• Community leaders
• Agencies and professionals focusing on K-20 and workforce
Background Materials
Why Action Analytics in Higher Education?
Linking Analytics to Lifting out of Recession
Yesterday’s Discussion – Long-Term Student Success
• Improving retention and student success is the “Killer App” for American higher education – but it must be PK-20
• The workforce connection is the mostunderemphasized broken link in the student success equation and needs to be reexamined
• Leverage existing initiatives to “Serve the Underserved” and “Halve the Gap”
• Leverage President Obama’s Agenda
• Disruptive and dislodging events
• Communities of practice
From the Perspective of Campus Leadership…..
• The current recession requires decisive action: both immediate cutbacks and longer-term innovations and reinventions.
• A new generation of emerging analytic capabilities will enable even greater accountability and performance improvement; and .
• In order to lift out of recession, higher education needs to discover, demonstrate, and deploy a more vigorous combination of solutions, based on: 1) operational efficiencies, 2) collaborations and innovations, 3) reimagined processes and practices, and 4) fresh sources of revenues.
The Challenge to Campus Leadership, Post Recession
2008-9 ------2009-12 ----------------------2020
Staunch Address Reimagined
The Flow Longer-Term Vision &
Challenges Financial
Sustainability
Need for a National Agenda
• What issues should a national agenda for analytics focus on?
• What are the pressure point for analytics?
• How does this fit with President Obama’s agenda? The agendas of national and state-level organizations and foundations?
• How do we make a difference in a timely fashion?
• How can analytics support serious institutional innovation? Establishing financial sustainability?
• What future research and demonstration projects are needed to advance the case for action analytics?
3-5-7 Questions – What Are They?
Next Steps – Where Do We Go From Here?
