Data Use Impact
Data Use workshops, webinars and consultations help colleges become more intentional in their use of data to address and improve student success and equity.
Featured Testimonial
Mark Akiyama, Dean Guided Pathways and Special Projects, Diablo Valley College, describes how the Data Use workshops conducted by IEBC have changed how they engage with data and how they have incorporated their changes as standard practice moving forward.
Turning Data into Useful Information
Dilcie Perez, Vice President Student Services, Assistant Superintendent, Cerritos College, discusses how IEBC’s workshops helped Cerritos College focus their data presentations to tell effective stories that support impactful data-informed conversations among multiple groups on campus.
Improving Data Literacy
Sheila Delquadri, Associate Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, Yakima Valley College, discusses how the book Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges, specifically the real-life examples of how colleges use data, inspired her to bring IEBC to her college to assist in making data-informed decisions.
The Power of Data to Create Culture Change
Dilcie Perez, Vice President Student Services, Assistant Superintendent, Cerritos College discusses how IEBC’s data use workshops helped her college become more intentional in their use of data to address equity issues. She notes that everyone “from the President on down” learned how important data can be in transforming the student experience. She goes on to present how IEBC’s participation in the college’s equity retreat sparked the creation of a student equity book club that chose Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges as the first book almost 100 people on campus read and discussed.
How Leading & Lagging Indicators Support Strategic Planning
Sheila Delquadri, Associate Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, Yakima Valley College, discusses how her college is using leading and lagging indicators in their strategic planning process. This helps to ensure all groups on campus—faculty, staff, leadership, and others—understand how they can contribute to the big outcomes of completion and transfer (lagging indicators) by focusing on what they can do in their classrooms, offices, and interactions with students (leading indicators).
Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges Moves Educators from Theory to Action
Carley Dear, Director of Assessment, University of Mississippi Medical Center and former Director of Institutional Research, Hinds Community College, shares how the book by Phillips & Horowitz helped her with specific strategies and tools to improve her practice and expand data use among her colleagues.
Thomas Brock, Director of the Community College Research Center (CCRC), Teachers College, Columbia University, on his use of the book CREATING A DATA-INFORMED CULTURE IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES in a graduate class.
“I just used this book for a master’s level course on community colleges that I teach at Columbia University’s Teachers College. One of the things I most appreciated about the book is that it makes the subject of institutional research so accessible. It is rare to find a book with “data” in the title that does not also contain a number of Greek formulas. Most of the students in the class are planning careers in higher education administration, and they responded well to the case studies and practical examples. I will use it again.”
Contra Costa College Applies Innovative Data Use
Ken Sherwood, then Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Contra Costa College, brought Dr. Brad Phillips to campus to support faculty and staff on how to use their data to be more effective. Sherwood worked through similar challenges with IEBC’s guidance at his previous assignment at Oxnard College. Sherwood said it doesn’t take long for educators to become enthusiastic about the value of data-driven decisions, “He teaches people how to use data while recognizing where resistance comes from. He helps people ease in and understand it’s not a threatening experience. IEBC is here to give you tools to work better.” Sherwood described the partnership between Contra Costa College and IEBC in this interview.
Turning Data into Useful Information
Improving Data Literacy
The Power of Data to Create Culture Change
How Leading & Lagging Indicators Support Strategic Planning
Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges Moves Educators from Theory to Action
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