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NACEP – San Antonio, Texas
IEBC vice president Jordan Horowitz presented his popular workshop on the Partnership of Concurrent Enrollment and Data at the National Association of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) national conference. Reactions from a workshop earlier this year included… “I can’t believe I got so excited about analytics. Absolutely riveting” … “For my role on campus, this was the most helpful and interesting presentation of the entire conference.”
Hawaii ART Data Institute
IEBC president Brad Phillips enjoyed presenting workshops in Hawaii recently with dedicated educators. Data use is growing in Hawaii.
Strengthening Student Success Conference, in Orange County
Brad Phillips of IEBC and Ken Sherwood of Contra Costa College presented on “Effectively Using Data to Improve Student Success, A Practical Approach.”
The Caring College
At Victor Valley College’s All College Day, IEBC President Brad Phillips gave the keynote address and conducted the World Café workshop on “The Caring College,” a new approach to student engagement.
Achieving the Dream (ATD) Data and Analytics Summit
Brad Phillips of IEBC and Don Woods of Odessa College, Texas, co-presented Why it’s Better to Lead Than Lag: How Leading Indicators Can Drive Institutional Change at the ATD Plenary Session. The presentation focused on the leading indicators that were used to drive change at award-winning Odessa College. The summit was at the University of Maryland. Also, the very popular IEBC workshop, “Telling Your Story with Data” was presented by Brad Phillips.
Learning Days at Delta College in Michigan
IEBC’s Brad Phillips gave the keynote address at Delta College’s Learning Days all-staff convocation. He introduced Bright Spots and praised the college’s wonderful reception and dedicated and caring faculty, staff and administrators
IEBC Newsletter – July 2018
July 2018 – Bright Spots: High Impact Results for Students and Fiscal Stability
IEBC Newsletter – June 2018
June 2018 – The Unprecedented IEBC Investment in Your Success
When transcript typos stand in the way of college
A commentary in EdSource by IEBC Senior Director of IT and Analytics John Watson sheds light on an interrupted pathway. Minding the small and ordinary can make an extraordinary difference for students. California’s public university systems — the University of California and the California State University — have identified high school course requirements (known as A-G) for admission to their universities. The A-G course list is designed to ensure students learn and can apply specific knowledge and experiences needed for more advanced post-secondary study. But between high school and college systems, simple errors can block the desired seamless highway. An estimated 10 percent of the students who graduate having completed California’s A-G course requirements can be denied admission when a course they (and their school) thought met A-G requirements does not. This means that each year 15,000 to 20,000 graduates are potentially affected; and that number has increased each year for the...
Finding it hard to go ‘All In’?
Read "The Problems and Promise of Bringing Educational Interventions to Scale” by Brad Phillips in Medium. Going all-in sounds exciting in poker but not for most educational institutions. Few are willing to bet big on going to scale with interventions, even if these interventions are research-based and have shown promise in improving student outcomes. So why is it so difficult to go all-in in education? Educators are, by their very nature, conservative and do not like change. There is an old anecdote in education. It starts off by asking …of all the world’s major systems, such as government, technology, religion, medicine and education, which systems have experienced the least amount of change over time? The reality is education and religion have changed the least. While one can argue online education has changed the system, it’s really only the technology to deliver education that has changed — like adding a train down the middle of the same highway. Another barrier to change is...