A Practical Discovery about Tuition Discount Rates Among the many bytes of data driving decision making in institutions of higher education, the tuition discount rate, or “tuition discounting,” invites some of the most voluminous and discomfiting commentary in the public space. As the Google Ngram Chart below shows, tuition discountingContinue Reading
Introduction to a Decisive Matter A common vogue in education for some time, as an occasional paper by the Rand Corporation from nearly ten years ago attests, education leaders often assert that data-driven or evidence-based decision-making is improving the operations of their institutions and the outcomes of their students. DespiteContinue Reading
Joe is committed to partnering with progressive institutional leaders that seek research-informed and evidence-based approaches to advance strategic planning for student success and continuous improvement in service to the mission of their colleges and universities. One major aspect of his solutions is to build mission-critical institutional effectiveness offices from theContinue Reading
The Advantage of Historia | Research: The institutional effectiveness and research offices in higher education increasingly find their personnel taxed by more frequent and more complex requests for data from internal and external agents. Typically, as institutions aspire to become more data-driven, executives and administrators initially respond as if theContinue Reading
The Advantage of Historia | Research: Institutions of higher education are complex cultural and economic structures in which internal and external agents with competing priorities, units, individuals, and ideologies contribute to the fulfillment of colleges’ missions and objectives. Executive leadership often discovers it lacks the ability to understand the causeContinue Reading
