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Success Equals IT Having a Seat at the Executive Table
Would having an information technology representative at the executive table of a higher education institution positively impact the decisions made there? If so, how? To answer these questions, and to address broader issues around data-informed...
Recruiting, Admissions & Marketing: Solving Enrollment Challenges Together
For many colleges and universities, maintaining or increasing enrollment has been an ongoing challenge. (And the recent COVID pandemic did not help the situation.) When enrollment figures are stagnant or down, there is additional scrutiny on...
Cybersecurity Trends and Threats in Higher Education
It is undeniable that the historic events of 2020 created long-lasting changes in work and learning environments across the globe. In higher education, students, faculty, and staff realized that it was possible to successfully work, learn, and...
Higher Ed: Achieving Success Together (Even When We’re Apart)
2020 was a year that will not soon be forgotten. Everyone had to make changes and adjustments – for work, school, and even social engagement. While we’re starting to see things slowly return to some sort of normalcy, there are – and will be –...
Student Success: It’s Time to Think Outside the Box!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Shining the Light on SQL Variables in Argos
When an institution begins its reporting efforts – let’s say after recently changing databases or reporting tools – one of the first steps usually taken is to replicate what they had before. Often, this means creating some type of file and...
The Problem with Self-Diagnosing when Requesting Data
When many of us get sick, we try self-diagnosing the problem. Maybe we look up information online. We may even go to a Web MD to find out what's wrong with this or that. Through this process we might find all sorts of symptoms we think we exhibit...