DATATELLIGENT BLOG

Higher education has never been short on data. What it has often been short on is the ability to use that data at the speed decisions actually need to be made. That gap has never been more costly than it is right now. According to Inside Higher Ed’s 2025 survey

For many Institutional Effectiveness (IE) and Institutional Research (IR) teams, the word “accreditation” triggers a familiar sense of dread. It signals the start of the “Great Data Scramble”—a frantic, months-long process of emailing department heads, hunting down spreadsheets, and piecing together fragmented evidence to prove your institution is meeting its

If you ask Institutional Research (IR) or higher education analytics teams how they spend their time, the answer is often the same, just phrased differently: This isn’t a skills problem. It’s not a motivation problem. And it’s certainly not because higher education lacks data. It’s a Data Wrangling problem. The