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Benchmarking

Planning for Higher Education Journal

An Integrative Model for College and University Programs

 A new method for program planning is proposed, based on identifying and benchmarking “student-winners” and “student-qualifiers,” that may find its most appropriate use in vertically-integrated planning within an academic unit such as a business school.
Conference Presentations

Benchmark Your Digital Capabilities to Improve Student Success

 You will learn how to assess your institution’s digital capacity for student success technologies so you can affect costs and improve outcomes with new analytics tools and services.
Conference Recordings

Data-driven Space Strategies for Research-intensive Institutions

 In this session, you'll learn multiple techniques—analytical, participatory, and action-oriented—that will help you enroll stakeholders, think strategically, and act more constructively to advance space management approaches at your institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Developing a Benchmarking Survey for Academic Members of an International Academy

 Toward sharing metrics between institutions and their academic programs, we discuss ways to identify critical components to be measured, navigate process challenges, and transfer knowledge.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Reduce Curriculum Costs While Increasing Student Enrollment

 Results of the study supplied evidence needed to support tough institutional decisions. The 13 Kentucky colleges and universities that participated in the research now have critically important data to use in making choices about how they best serve their students, maximize scarce resources, and sustain financial stability.
Conference Presentations

Using Data to Drive Peer Group Selection

 You will learn an approach for developing a data-informed peer group and how benchmarking with a peer group can inform your institution's governing board and be linked to mission.
Conference Recordings

Using SCUPs Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) to Inform Your Integrated Planning

 In this session, we will explore some of the findings from the 2021 CFI benchmarking and hear from a panel of institutions about changes they are making and using CFI data to inform their planning efforts.