Danielle Rowdy, PhD

What do today’s students expect from their higher ed experience, and how can you deliver it? More than ever before, colleges and universities are prioritizing improvements to the student experience.

From enrollment to social activities to career preparation, leaders are investing significant time and resources to build personalized and tech-enabled experiences across the student lifecycle. In our new whitepaper, we outline six hallmarks of the modern student experience and offer guidance… Show more

What do today’s students expect from their higher ed experience, and how can you deliver it? More than ever before, colleges and universities are prioritizing improvements to the student experience.

From enrollment to social activities to career preparation, leaders are investing significant time and resources to build personalized and tech-enabled experiences across the student lifecycle. In our new whitepaper, we outline six hallmarks of the modern student experience and offer guidance on how your school can bring it to life. Show less

Living in the shadow of today’s consumer economy, higher education is on the hook for delivering seamless, personalized experiences while staying true to its educational mission. As institutions grapple with this new reality, uncertainties are quick to confront them: Who will our students be in the coming decade? How do we optimize support across an extended student lifecycle? How can we overcome pervasive integration and data-quality issues to create an agile technology ecosystem that adapts… Show more

Living in the shadow of today’s consumer economy, higher education is on the hook for delivering seamless, personalized experiences while staying true to its educational mission. As institutions grapple with this new reality, uncertainties are quick to confront them: Who will our students be in the coming decade? How do we optimize support across an extended student lifecycle? How can we overcome pervasive integration and data-quality issues to create an agile technology ecosystem that adapts as student needs change?

Across three sections, this white paper explores the mandate for student-centric innovation and offers a roadmap for higher education leaders to develop a sustainable digital strategy for the years ahead. Show less

The explosion of technology use across different areas of campus means institutional data is now constantly in motion—and IT is under a growing burden to integrate and improve agility.

This research, written for CIOs, directors of infrastructure, and enterprise applications groups, profiles how higher education institutions have successfully consolidated point-to-point integration to provide enterprise-wide data services for their campuses, capturing benefits including better data… Show more

The explosion of technology use across different areas of campus means institutional data is now constantly in motion—and IT is under a growing burden to integrate and improve agility.

This research, written for CIOs, directors of infrastructure, and enterprise applications groups, profiles how higher education institutions have successfully consolidated point-to-point integration to provide enterprise-wide data services for their campuses, capturing benefits including better data quality, faster software onboarding, and data capability enhancements. Show less

Writing enterprise data definitions is performed as institutions begin to operationalize their data governance. Strategic oversight directs working group attention toward creating definitions for high-demand enterprise data, and the initiative continues iteratively to include more and more data with each cycle of work.

Use this playbook to capture data definitions and create user-friendly data dictionaries for campus decision makers to access.

Data delivery is the final hurdle for data governance groups. Ensuring that clean, appropriate enterprise data is made available to the right decision-makers on campus is the final pay-off for data governance work.

To help CIOs and their teams create a seamless, responsive data delivery mechanism, this playbook outlines how to provide data access, monitor for quality, and review emerging needs to guide future strategy.

Data governance is not a project—it’s an ongoing need for every institution. To ensure that data governance is built to last, campus leaders should design their initiative for the long haul. Effective capability review and design will head off many of the issues that disrupt and derail enterprise governance initiatives in higher education.

Use this playbook to effectively structure and staff data governance committees, plan for sustainability, and set implementation standards and… Show more

Data governance is not a project—it’s an ongoing need for every institution. To ensure that data governance is built to last, campus leaders should design their initiative for the long haul. Effective capability review and design will head off many of the issues that disrupt and derail enterprise governance initiatives in higher education.

Use this playbook to effectively structure and staff data governance committees, plan for sustainability, and set implementation standards and policies. Show less

As opportunities arise for innovations in the delivery and administration of teaching and learning and research, IT is positioned to enable digital innovation at scale across campus—but they cannot do it alone. In order to harness the potential of digital transformation, campus stakeholders must work together with IT leaders to prioritize digital change initiatives.

As integration needs—and opportunity costs—are soaring, more campus IT departments are wondering how to deliver integration value today and in the future.

This executive brief, written for CIOs, directors of infrastructure, and enterprise application groups, discusses how to build a sustainable integration model and what the best-in-field colleges and universities are doing on this front.

This compendium gives an overview of the innovation challenge in higher education, provides guidance for colleges and universities pursuing innovation, and profiles 10 technology success stories across four strategic domains: novel student recruitment strategies, teaching and learning innovations, student-centric campus experiences, and administrative efficiency opportunities.

Together, these ideas represent a menu of options across a broad range of emerging technologies, enabling… Show more

This compendium gives an overview of the innovation challenge in higher education, provides guidance for colleges and universities pursuing innovation, and profiles 10 technology success stories across four strategic domains: novel student recruitment strategies, teaching and learning innovations, student-centric campus experiences, and administrative efficiency opportunities.

Together, these ideas represent a menu of options across a broad range of emerging technologies, enabling schools to discover and communicate the value of innovation on campus and kick-start conversations for their own initiatives. Show less