Building an Academic Data Culture to Support Student Success

Faculty, department chairs, and teaching and learning staff are critical partners who should be actively engaged in data review and policy processes at their institutions. However, many lack access to the data, training, or resources necessary to design meaningful programmatic policies and educational experiences that support learning and successful outcomes for all students. It can be challenging for many institutions to break down silos and make meaningful connections across departments and offices in service of improving data literacy and democratization with the goal of achieving higher e student success.

APLU provides strategic guidance, data literacy workshops, and academic data coaching to cross-functional collaborative teams, supporting them to identify the necessary relationships and resources within their own institutional context that will support the growth and adoption of data and learning analytics at the course, departmental, and institutional levels. Each participating institution will engage a cross-campus team to collect, interpret, analyze, and communicate data that addresses a specific student success issue that can lead to further institutional transformation efforts at their institution.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this service, participants will be able to:

• Build knowledge and skills in academic data literacy
• Assess your institutional data culture and identify key areas of opportunity for improvement
• Collect and analyze data to address an academic student success issue (identified by your institution at the beginning of the service)
• Develop an action plan to create strategies that enhance student success within the target course, program, or department
• Learn, apply, and sustain a practice of continuous improvement with the cross-functional team that can later be scaled by institutions seeking to integrate good data practices by their campus communities.

Service Deliverables

1. A customized action plan for improving the use of data for academic student success within a unique project or initiative at your institution
2. Create a presentation of project findings to take back to campus leaders and begin the process of making institutional changes to support student success

Service Format

Blended

Configuration

Workshop – facilitated, scheduled

Service Duration

12 or 16 weeks

Contact Hours

12 hours

Time on Task

22 total hours for team members and 34 total hours for the project lead