The Guides
More valuable than ever
Informing Decisions • Improving Practice • Increasing Student Success
Value We Provide
We provide value in these key ways.
- You – will have valuable information to use as a basis for decision making.
- Stakeholders – will have access to a new approach that makes information relevant and facilitates informed decision making.
- Faculty – will be empowered with new insights that strengthen teaching and learning.
- Staff – will be empowered with new insights that strengthen student connections and student success.
- Students – will have support, focus and direction, leading to greater success.
What We Do
We connect data with education stakeholders — students, faculty, staff, administrators, policymakers, funders, and others — to support academic success and measurable improvements in education for all students. We focus on these two key areas:
- Data Use – Understanding data and using it to help students succeed.
- Caring Campus – Coaching colleges on specific behaviors leading to student engagement and success.
Who We Are
IEBC is a nationally-recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to helping education stakeholders — community colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, employers and others — use data, collaboration and coaching to make informed decisions and craft solutions that improve practice and dramatically increase student success.
Our knowledgeable and personable team includes a wide range of respected leaders, researchers, analysts, academicians, and consultants with advanced degrees in valuable disciplines.
What’s Happening
IEBC Establishes Caring Campus Racial Equity Advisory Council to re-examine its Caring Campus initiative in the context of racial equity issues in higher education. The Council will be advising on how to ensure racial equity issues are appropriately integrated in, and addressed by, Caring Campus work, its implementation and follow-up activities. Learn More here.
Caring Campus Stories – Across the country, faculty, staff and administrators are making sure they are reaching out and helping students feel connected. Read the stories here.
The IEBC Commitment pledges to work with colleges, government, private sectors, colleagues and partners to ensure America’s educational system is an engine of equity.
Committed to the 
expansion of Caring Campus as a practical and effective strategy for increasing student success, IEBC and NISOD are sharing this message nationwide. Read the news release here.
Featured Publications
Napa Valley College participates in Caring Campus as one of 18 California community colleges selected to work with IEBC to incorporate the Caring Campus initiative into its student success efforts this year. Read more here.
What Does it Mean to Be a Caring Campus During the COVID-19 Pandemic? When students drop out or stop out, everybody loses – the students, the college, and the community. Working differently to support the students they serve and championship of this work by college leadership changes this. How? Read it here.
Serendipity Leads to Student Success Thanks to IEBC Book. It’s one thing to write a book; it’s another to find out how many educators are putting it to work. Read more about Dr. Dear’s experience here.
Reissuing Guides One and Two: More valuable than ever. Providing Student Support Services in Extraordinary Times – A Caring Campus Approach. With tremendous challenges facing our colleges in this new environment, IEBC developed these guides. They are now more needed, and more helpful, than ever. Click here to access Guide One and here to access Guide Two.