In a recent survey from The Chronicle, 97 percent of college officials said that colleges need to improve the ways through which they use institutional data to inform strategic decisions. However, when asked if they believed their own institutions were doing a good job, just six out of ten surveyed agreed. Participants cited opportunities to improve several aspects of academia, from business and financial operations to improvements in academic advising. But transforming into an institution powered by data is not without its challenges, chief among them including:
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Decentralized and siloed data collection
Budget constraints
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Problems with turning data into action
In the following infographic, “Higher Ed’s Data Gap”, we pull together some of the defining insights from the survey and look into how colleges and universities are taking steps to becoming data-driven institutions.
