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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Close to Done: What Institutions Know, and Don't, About Students With Some College and No Credential
Colleges have invested heavily in keeping students enrolled, and the case for early-alert systems and near-real-time data is well known to those who work in IE. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, in its most recent Some Col...
Confident About Data Use, Constrained by Capacity: What Provosts and IR Offices Report
Nine in ten provosts say their institution is somewhat or very effective at using data to aid and inform campus decision-making (Inside Higher Ed & Hanover Research, 2026). Eighty-nine percent say the same about meaningfully measuring stude...
Four Themes I Did Not Plan: What Weekly Writing Revealed About Institutional Effectiveness
I started this newsletter on LinkedIn in July 2025 as a weekly exercise: pick a question in higher education or institutional effectiveness, research and share my thoughts and findings. I later moved the full version to Substack, partly bec...
Retake Without Setback: Keeping Students on Track After a D, F, or W
Failing a course, especially early in college, is rarely only an academic event. In one study of 186 Australian undergraduates who failed a unit and stayed enrolled, students described their reactions with words such as disappointed, stress...
Valued, Doubted, Delivered: The Three-Part ROI Problem in Higher Education
Three groups surveyed by the same research partnership in 2026, adults without a college degree, recent graduates, and the employers who hire them, largely agree on one point: a college credential still matters. Nearly three in four adults...
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