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Researchers' COVID-19 response shows the power of open data – campus data hoarders should take note
Researchers' COVID-19 response shows the power of open data – campus data hoarders should take note
By Danielle Rowdy, PhD
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Good morning SFO !! It is a privilege to support some of the largest and most prestigious institutions across the Northeast. The innovation of AWS…
Good morning SFO !! It is a privilege to support some of the largest and most prestigious institutions across the Northeast. The innovation of AWS…
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Innovate at the Pace of Cloud - Join the AWS Higher Education Team! Are you a cloud technologist always on the lookout for the next big idea? Join…
Innovate at the Pace of Cloud - Join the AWS Higher Education Team! Are you a cloud technologist always on the lookout for the next big idea? Join…
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Exciting update! Wofford College is now live on Workday Human Capital and Financial Management. Congrats to the teams at Wofford College and Workday…
Exciting update! Wofford College is now live on Workday Human Capital and Financial Management. Congrats to the teams at Wofford College and Workday…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Assistant Director Of Operations
The Brilliant Club
- 1 year 6 months
Education
-Raised $10k seed funding for Pilot Program
-Directed operational logistics for The Brilliant Club-DC's Pilot Program
-Recruited, trained, deployed science and humanities PhD students to develop rich, research-based tutorial content for innovative pedagogical interventions in underserved public school communities
-Liaised with DC public schools to place and monitor progress of PhD tutors
Previously: Producing reports on Chicago and DC Public Schools as part of UK-based…-Raised $10k seed funding for Pilot Program
-Directed operational logistics for The Brilliant Club-DC's Pilot Program
-Recruited, trained, deployed science and humanities PhD students to develop rich, research-based tutorial content for innovative pedagogical interventions in underserved public school communities
-Liaised with DC public schools to place and monitor progress of PhD tutors
Previously: Producing reports on Chicago and DC Public Schools as part of UK-based educational non-profit’s endeavour to expand across the USA. -
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Tutor (Introduction to Shakespeare)
The Knowledge Project
- 1 year 1 month
Education
Volunteer tutor at The Knowledge Project—an Oxford based non-profit that charges adults low fees for evening classes (£80 per 8 week course), and donates the proceeds to a local charity providing English language tuition for non-native English speaking children in the area.
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Graduate Tutor
Oxford Pathways
- 1 year 1 month
Education
Delivering academic subject talks to students visiting Oxford from state schools across the UK, usually without sixth forms, or with little, if any, history of sending students to Oxford.
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Board Member
Connecting Chicago
- 1 year 7 months
Education
Working with Connecting Chicago leadership to build a sustainable service model that will empower Chicago-based students with free tutoring through the coronavirus pandemic and beyond.
Publications
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Designing a Modern Student Experience: A Framework to Bridge the Gap Between "Consumer" Expectations and Campus Realities
EAB
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…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.Other authorsSee publication -
Sustaining Student Centric Innovation: A Roadmap for the Digital Transformation Ahead
EAB
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…
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. -
Creating Reusable Data Services for Campus
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…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. -
Defining Enterprise Data Terms for Campus
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. -
Delivering Quality Data to Campus
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. -
Designing Effective Data Governance
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…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. -
Digital Transformation: What it is, and why it matters to higher education
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.
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Equipping IT for Integration at Scale
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. -
The Higher Ed Digital Projects Compendium
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…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.Other authorsSee publication
Honors & Awards
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Faculty Scholarship
Faculty of English, University of Oxford
3-year scholarship to cover living costs while pursuing DPhil research in English at the University of Oxford.
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Robin Geffen DPhil Scholarship
Keble College, Oxford
3-year fees scholarship to pursue DPhil research in English at Keble College, Oxford
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Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship
AHRC
Full scholarship to pursue MA course in English literature
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