Planning for Higher Education Journal

Democratizing Data to Close Equity Gaps

Engage Teams to Dismantle Systemic Barriers That Impede Student Success

From Volume 52 Number 3 | April–June 2024

By Neva Lozada, EdD, Carlos Rodriguez, EdD, Michael Salvatore, PhD, and Joseph Youngblood, II, JD, PhD

Planning Types: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning, Institutional Effectiveness Planning

Challenges: Resolving Inequities, Student Success, Retention, and Graduation, Planning Alignment

Tags: Alignment, Assessment / Analytics, Attracting and Retaining Underrepresented Students, Dashboards, Data, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Engaging Stakeholders, Organizational Change, Racial Equity, Student Retention, Student Success, Underserved Students

Institutions referenced in this resource:
Kean University

Through the inception of the Division of Strategic Analytics and Data Illumination (SADI), Kean University has cultivated a capacity for data literacy and analytics, empowering its community to employ data for evidence-based decision-making to overcome barriers to student success.
Employing optimal practices in integrated planning, SADI unified disparate offices into one cohesive data team to strategically reframe and visualize student data, identifying specific needs for continual improvement. This article underscores SADI’s initiatives in democratizing data, merging planning processes, and harnessing analytics to dismantle impediments to student success, particularly in bridging equity gaps in higher education.

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