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The Power of Metrics in Higher Education: Enhancing Accountability and Equity

Explore the significance of using metrics in higher education to improve teaching, promote equity, and aid decision-making. Join us on April 23, 2019, at 2 p.m. Eastern for valuable insights and case studies. Discover the impact of metrics on graduation rates and student success, and delve into the debate around the Federal Graduation Rate. Uncover the role of metrics in supporting part-time students and examine the implications of undermatching. Gain insights into measuring liberal arts education outcomes and delve into issues of social mobility. Engage in a Q&A session to address your queries and share ideas for future coverage.

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The Power of Metrics in Higher Education: Enhancing Accountability and Equity

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  1. Why Metrics Matter An Inside Higher Ed webcast April 23, 2019 2 p.m. Eastern

  2. Presenters • Scott Jaschik, editor, Inside Higher Ed, scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com • Doug Lederman, editor, Inside Higher Ed, doug.lederman@insidehighered.com

  3. Three Quotes • “What gets measured gets done.” • “Just because you can measure it doesn’t mean you should.” • “Garbage in, garbage out.”

  4. How Metrics Are Used • To improve teaching and learning • To improve completion / retention • To promote accountability • To promote equity • To help students and families make informed decisions • Several of the above

  5. Case Studies and Their Lessons -- --iStock

  6. Impact of Faculty Attitudes

  7. Tracking Graduation Rates: I --California State University System

  8. Tracking Graduation Rates: II --University System of Maryland

  9. The Federal Graduation Rate • What it is • Why everyone hates it (and yet it survives) • Alternatives

  10. How to Help Part-Time Students

  11. Undermatching • How the idea was discovered • How it is used in affirmative action debates • How it may have led to unintended consequences

  12. The Liberal Arts and Gen Ed • Counting majors • Salaries • Life outcomes

  13. Faux Social Mobility?

  14. Q&A • Your questions • Your ideas for future coverage

  15. With Thanks ….

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