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Case Studies

Oklahoma State University

Location: Stillwater, OK
Nuventive Solutions: The Nuventive Improvement Platform Essential Edition
Overview: “…with past data archived securely in the cloud, faculty, staff, and new program assessment coordinators have easier access to the information they need to develop better enhancements and understand student needs.”
Value: “Since the Nuventive solution was deployed, OSU students have improved scores in student learning outcome assessments and maintained success rates averaging 90%.”
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White Papers

Seven Lessons from an Accidental CIO

How to Build a Culture of Data-Informed Improvement

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Today’s higher education CIOs are often tasked with leading their institutions’ transformation to a high-performance, data-informed culture. To do so, they must build new competencies around information architecture: identifying the information needs of people across the institution and connecting information to the people who could benefit from it. In this eBook learn about seven practical lessons that will help every higher education CIO build a strong team that can succeed in advancing their organization’s mission and aspirations.

Case Studies

Arcadia University

Location: Glenside, PA

Nuventive Solutions: The Nuventive Improvement Platform Premier Edition

Overview: “…Arcadia needed a platform to assist with planning, assessment, and reporting for our approved adaptive strategy, Arcadia2025”. Also, the university has just finished its self-study for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education’s eight-year review of accredited institutions. Arcadia needed a system to access the relevant data for rigorous compliance and regulatory requirements. Nuventive hit the criteria in terms of its ability to be flexible, accessible, and to grow with the university’s needs.

Value: “Nuventive provided us with some options that allowed us to build the solution we needed.” Nuventive’s solution was also straightforward for everyone in the university community to adopt and use. It also helped break down, connect and integrate previous data silos.

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Leading in Turbulent Times

In Search of a Navigation System for This Critical Moment in the History of U.S. Higher Education

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To say that this complex array of interwoven problems poses formidable challenges for leaders is an understatement.  That said, this difficult moment in time also offers opportunities for meaningful change.

This paper by Brent D. Ruben, Ph.D. of Rutgers University aims to contribute to this effort by presenting a framework for organizational review, strategy formulation, and change planning during a time of turbulence and disruption, such as we now confront.  The paper focuses on the role information, communication and technology can play as a part of a larger framework of strategy development and organizational renewal.  A catalogue of actionable questions to guide in this work is also presented.

Case Studies

Houston Community College

Houston Community College talks about their use of the Nuventive Improvement Platform and how it has transformed their use of data and information.

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The challenge in general terms is one of scale… we have a massive amount of data that we have to deal with. Finding data wasn’t the problem, figuring out what that data was telling us was what the challenge was … The Nuventive tool allows us to shift priorities to meet the needs of the institution,

Cesar Maldonado, Ph.D., P.E., Chancellor