⚠ IEBC – Caring Campus and Coronavirus
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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
NEW: Supporting Community College Professional Staff – Guide Two IEBC has developed this new guide to provide concrete ways to support staff as they work to go beyond meeting students’ needs to foster a sense of connectedness that helps students and staff stay connected to, and supported by, our colleges in normal times and in this current environment. Read Guide Two here.
Caring Campus webinar: Connecting with Students in a Virtual Environment, The 330 webinar participants learned a lot about making Caring Campus a reality. The webinar was based on the first guide: Connecting with Students in a Virtual Environment. Click here to download the PowerPoint slides and/or view the Webinar.
Providing Student Support Services In Extraordinary Times – A Caring Campus Approach IEBC developed the first guide in this series to provide concrete ways for staff to engage with students, proactively helping them to stay connected to, and supported by, the college in normal times and in this current environment. Read Guide One: Connecting with Students in a Virtual Environment here.
Going Virtual — With the impact of the coronavirus, IEBC Caring Campus work has moved to a virtual environment. In this process, we’re adapting all of our face-to-face coaching and facilitation sessions to virtual delivery; reaching out to our partners; working with our Caring Campus colleges to meet their needs and timelines. Read more here.
Featured Publications
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. Social Distancing Does Not Mean Social Isolation: The Need for Caring Campuses Now
Ascendium awards new $2 million grant to IEBC supporting its ‘Caring Campus Initiative.’ Caring Campus recognizes and leverages the value of connectedness for increasing the likelihood that students will continue towards, and succeed in attaining, their educational goals. Read more in our News Release.
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.
Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, published by Harvard Education Press. Read what others are saying about this book.