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Integrated Student Records: How Higher Ed Unifies Student Data for Better Outcomes
Integrated Student Records: A Guide for Higher Ed Data Leaders The student data already exists. It’s just scattered across a dozen systems that don’t talk
Host Debbie Phelps sits down with institutional research, effectiveness, and data leaders across higher education. Choose an episode to listen and read the full transcript.
Adaptive Data Governance
An iterative, "progress over perfection" framework for data governance that empowers colleagues and builds a single source of truth.
Building Lasting Tech Partnerships
The "Effectiveness Equation" of vendor management — defining success early and turning technology spending into mission strengths.
Building a Data-Driven Accreditation Culture
Transforming accreditation from a compliance burden into an opportunity for growth, knowledge management, and continuous improvement.
Embedding Futures Thinking into Strategy
Strategic foresight versus forecasting, the Futures Triangle, and why data visualizations are never truly neutral.
How Ozarks Tech Links Data, Budgets & Strategy
Building an integrated planning model that unites assessment, departmental planning, program review, and budgeting into one cycle.
Why AI & Humans Both Depend on It
A Datatelligent roundtable on context engineering, the semantic layer, and what turns a hallucinating chatbot into a trusted tool.
Peer Support & Student Success
How the Hope Squad peer-to-peer program, survey data, and a sense of belonging drive student well-being and success.
The Power of Proactive Leadership
Why preparation is self-respect — proactive leadership, financial literacy, and career resilience in a shifting landscape.
Advancing in Higher Ed Data
Mapping the road to leadership in institutional research, and the soft skills that help data professionals rise.
Transforming Research, Data & Campus Administration
Cutting through the hype to explore "agentic AI," augmented intelligence, and keeping a human in the loop.
Professional Development
How AIR supports data professionals, builds campus-wide data literacy, and advocates for the data community.
Integrated Student Records: A Guide for Higher Ed Data Leaders The student data already exists. It’s just scattered across a dozen systems that don’t talk