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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants.

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Make Data-Driven Financial Aid Decisions for Your School

School & Student Services by Community Brands

Compliance with data privacy regulations, such as FERPA. Offering professional development in data literacy and financial aid analytics can help decision-makers make the best use of available information. Role-based access controls to limit data exposure.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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3 key functions of a higher education analytics organization Institutions of higher learning are collecting reams of data, but these data are generally used to satisfy compliance reporting requirements (or remain unused ) rather than employed to facilitate strategic analysis (1).

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Improve your program review process with these 4 data tips

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We provided annual workshops on the process, increased data literacy, explained how decisions were made (and by whom), and tracked how decisions got communicated and followed up on. 2: Carefully consider your data visualizations Remember that you’re dealing with a campus community that has a wide range of data literacy.

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4 reasons your team won’t use data—even if they want to

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