Colleges Drowning in Student Data (and Tech Vendor Sales Calls)
Enrollment leaders within higher ed are "awash in data" and "a swirling array of technology vendors," all of whom purport to be able to help schools pull "insights from data." So even though enrollment management directors see the value in the use of technology for their jobs, because they receive "dozens" of vendor contacts weekly, they've also become "understandably jaded." So expressed a new report from Eduventures that examines the state of enrollment management within colleges and universities.
MoreReport: Post-Secondary Attainment Inches Forward
The United States attainment rate crept forward once again from 2013 to 2014 by hundredths of a percent, rising from 40 percent to 40.4 percent, according to the Lumina Foundation's seventh annual report, "A Stronger Nation."
MoreU Michigan Designs Data-Centric Supercomputer
Researchers at the University of Michigan, in collaboration with IBM, have designed a high-performance computing cluster with the goal of advancing predictive modeling in computational science.
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