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. [...]
Marquez Remembers Being in Student’s Shoes
Desi Marquez was the first person in his family to attend college. Today he is well on the way to earning his Ph.D. But he still vividly recalls how unsure and confused he was [...]
Serendipity Leads to IEBC Book
A serendipitous search for a better way to support her Hinds Community College (Raymond, Mississippi) colleagues in her role as Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness led Dr. Carley Dear to a new tool providing [...]
Ascendium Awards $1 Million Grant
San Diego, Calif. Ascendium Education Group, one of the nation’s leading higher education philanthropies, has awarded a one million dollar grant to the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) for the Caring Campus Initiative. The objective [...]
California does not have to start from scratch
In this commentary in EdSource, IEBC President Brad Phillips writes that the system can build on what we’ve already learned and must be both useful and easy to use. Read the full article in EdSource.
When transcript typos stand in the way of college
A commentary in EdSource by IEBC Senior Director of IT and Analytics John Watson sheds light on an interrupted pathway. Minding the small and ordinary can make an extraordinary difference for students. California’s public university [...]