How Moneyball and an Ardent Baseball Fan Shaped Successful Metrics-Based University Planning
By: Roy Mathew, Elsa Bonilla-Martin, Daniel Santana, and Erick Gonzalez
Over the last three decades, the University of Texas at El Paso has refined its planning system and integrated metrics within a comprehensive planning framework—to produce dramatic outcomes.
From Volume 48 Number 1 | October–December 2019
Abstract: Big data and analytics are promoted as an approach that can improve educational quality, student success, strategic and operational decision-making, and knowledge discovery. Over the last three decades, the University of Texas at El Paso has refined its planning system and integrated metrics within a comprehensive planning framework—to produce dramatic outcomes. The article describes the institution’s metrics-based planning approach and the context that produced it.