From Silos to Solutions: Unifying Data Systems to Drive Student Success

Today’s higher education institutions face complex challenges in ensuring the financial, academic, mental health, and career success of their students. The key to overcoming these challenges lies in academic faculty, staff and administrators’ ability to make data-driven decisions based on comprehensive and accurate information about students and related institutional initiatives. 

However, siloed data systems, outdated infrastructure, and poor data management practices are hindering institutions’ ability to provide this holistic view. To achieve their student success goals, institutions must modernize and centralize their systems, from the point of data collection to data processing, management and analysis, to ensure that administrators, faculty, and staff have a unified, reliable view of information upon which they can make informed decisions.

In this session, an panel of Higher Ed experts discuss:

• Challenges institutions face in trying to modernize their student data collection/management processes and how they can be overcome
• What can be done to improve student data management on campus to provide staff, faculty and administrators the information they need to make timely, informed decisions
• How important a “single source of truth” is when it comes to student data, and how institutions might achieve that level of data consolidation and visibility
• Who on campus is responsible for and/or can be empowered to improve the data ecosystem
• How institutions can use data to become more responsive to students’ needs
• What can institutions can do right now to improve the digital student experience and promote student engagement