The student success pillar of the Educause Top IT Issues of 2021 describes the need to advance student support services to help students attain academic and career success. With the ever-increasing cost of education, you want to be sure you have the right student...
Higher Education
Looking for Data in the Right Body of Water
It is easy to compare data to water. It’s fluid, after all. It’s ever changing, often diluted and cleaned, recycled, and redirected into new channels. It can flow like a river, crash likes ocean waves, or it can sit relatively still in a lake. As higher education data...
Student-Centric Higher Education: Why the Urgency?
Institutions of higher education were designed to aid young men and women in their transition from high school graduate to college student, helping them navigate along the way. Administrators would recruit, admit, enroll, guide and pretty much handhold these students...
Data Sources & Reporting Tools: More Isn’t Better
Higher Education is becoming more competitive each and every year. One area that continues to provide a potential advantage to an institution is data – data provided via reports, with the purpose of enabling timely decisions that will bring the institution closer to...
Evisions CO-OP: Top 10 Most Viewed Argos DataBlocks
The Evisions CO-OP User Community is a collaborative place where clients can share ideas, experiences, development, forms, DataBlocks, and reports with their peers. To give you an idea of what fellow Argos users are doing and looking at, we present the Top 10 Most...
When the Going Gets Tough, Higher Ed Administrators Simplify
COVID-19 has upended higher education. Everyone is trying to figure out how best to adapt to the “new normal.” (Forgive us. Like you, we also recognize how overused that term is.) Faculty and students are adjusting to remote learning environments, while administrative...
Data Privacy in Higher Education
Do you know how data is used at your institution? Do you know how data is being stored, processed, and used within your own department? Does the personally identifiable information (PII) need to be kept for individuals or could your data be aggregated and...
Three Paths to Get the Answers You Need for Your IPEDS Survey
Many people see the new year as a clean slate, time to start a new diet or exercise program that won’t last the month. But if you are an IPEDS Keyholder, you know it’s the start of another IPEDS winter and spring survey collection. Looking at the IPEDS calendar,...
Navigating the Evisions Customer Community
The Evisions Customer Community has always been an invaluable tool for clients. It serves as a resource for peers in higher ed to share knowledge and find answers. On May 7, 2019, a new community portal was launched. Why? Because we listened when our clients told us...