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 evidence-based 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 three key areas:
- Data Use – Understanding data and using it to help students succeed.
- Caring Campus/Bright Spots – Coaching colleges on specific behaviors leading to student engagement and success.
- College Readiness and Success – Collaborating to analyze data, seek appropriate solutions and implement them well.
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 evidence-based 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
Around the country, this fall has been a most busy season with multiple presentations, keynotes, kickoff sessions, workshops and localized coaching.
The California Association for Institutional Research (CAIR) welcomed IEBC President Brad Phillips who presented the Telling Your Story with Data workshop and moderated the plenary panel on Research in Action: Actionable Intelligence to Support Student Success.
In New Orleans at the AACC Guided Pathways Conference, IEBC President Brad Phillips and Odessa College President Gregory Williams spoke on Caring Campus and Guided Pathways and put this keynoted group to work.
Estrella Mountain Community College, Arizona, one of ten community colleges across the U.S. who have launched the ‘Caring Campus Initiative,’ shown here in a Caring Campus working session with IEBC Vice President Jordan Horowitz.
Yakima Valley College and KIMA Action News – Yakima Valley College, Washington, is one of ten community colleges across the U.S. who have launched the ‘Caring Campus Initiative’ and are hard at work with the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) to incorporate the ‘Caring Campus’ into their student success efforts. KIMA-TV covers what this means to students.
It’s Better to Lead Than Lag. IEBC is partnering with the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) this month with two workshops on the power of using locally developed leading indicators to impact the lagging indicators to ensure positive student success outcomes and advance student success.
Featured Publications
Read about the Ascendium Education Group grant supporting ten colleges around the nation in the IEBC news release and our newsletter here.
The research is clear: If we want students to stay and succeed, we need to connect with them. Read this article in the EvoLLLution magazine. I Don’t Care What You Know Until I Know You Care: Why Caring Campuses Retain More Students
Those Positive Reviews Caring Campus has been underway in 2018-19 in Southern California and positive reviews continue to pour in. It’s a unique IEBC coaching way to change lives with intentional, impactful interventions. Here’s what participants are saying.
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. In this interview with IEBC, Dr. Carley Dear of Mississippi, shares how Creating A Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges provided her with a better way to support her colleagues. Read more about Dr. Dear’s experience here.
Bright Spots faculty and staff are changing student lives with intentional impactful interventions helping stabilize enrollment and retention in the process.
Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, published by Harvard Education Press. Read what others are saying about this book.