Institutional Effectiveness Weekly
Don RudawskyInsights at the intersection of analytics, strategy, and student outcomes—built for higher ed leaders.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Why I Keep Showing Up: What Employee Engagement Research Says About Presence and Belonging
Last week, I visited the Institutional Effectiveness team at Augusta University, a team I am thrilled to be joining on September 1 as Assistant Vice President for Institutional Data Strategy and Reporting and Chief Data Officer. It happened...
Development Gap or Demonstration Gap? A Diagnostic and a Sequence
Edition 24 introduced the demonstration gap: employers who discount credentials not because they doubt the value of higher education, but because they lack legible evidence of what a specific graduate can do (Rudawsky, 2026a). Most of the e...
Teamwork and Professionalism: Two Development Gaps Institutions Can't Document Their Way Out Of
Two Gaps, One Question
NACE’s most recent competency research draws on its 2024 Student Survey, completed by more than 20,000 students, paired with the Job Outlook 2025 employer survey. Across most competencies, students and employers b...
Showing My Work: How Institutional Effectiveness Weekly Gets Made
This newsletter is a collaboration between me and Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. I’ve written a short version of this statement for Substack’s new AI-disclosure field, but the character limit doesn’t leave room to explain a process that...
The Critical Thinking Premium
Two claims about artificial intelligence and human reasoning are circulating in the same news cycle, and they point in opposite directions. Employers are chasing critical thinking harder than at any point in recent memory. Gartner, the tech...
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