by Allen Taylor | Nov 6, 2025 | HEat Index
While it may feel like the point in the semester when things start to get a little chaotic, thankfully, that’s not the kind of “mad” we’re talking about this week. And hopefully, The HEat Index brings a bit of calm to your already full day. In this week’s issue, we...
by Allen Taylor | Oct 30, 2025 | HEat Index
If you attended the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, hopefully, you had an opportunity to stop by the Evisions booth and see some of my wonderful colleagues. If not, catch up with us at one of our upcoming events! We’d love to hear your thoughts about the recently released...
by Allen Taylor | Oct 23, 2025 | HEat Index
“Credits, credits, every where and no degrees are seen.” My apologies to Coleridge for reworking one of his most famous lines, but with the Some College, No Credential population now at 43 million and counting, it feels appropriate. In this week’s issue, we look at...
by Allen Taylor | Oct 17, 2025 | HEat Index
The purpose of postsecondary education and who gets in to where has been a hotly debated topic for almost 50 years. It’s tangled up in American ideas about meritocracy and the ethos (mythos?) that one can simply “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” In that...
by Allen Taylor | Oct 9, 2025 | HEat Index
As an educational software company focused on higher ed data tools, you can probably imagine our excitement about the release of the latest EDUCAUSE Horizon Report as it focuses on data and analytics. For those of us who have followed Horizon from its earliest days,...
by Allen Taylor | Oct 2, 2025 | HEat Index
Since the emergence of generative AI a couple years ago, higher education has been forced through a period of rapid change as each institution attempts to adapt to this new reality. With the release of their new action plan, EDUCAUSE encourages institutions to go on...