[Institutional Effectiveness]

Institutional Effectiveness

Institutional Effectiveness

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Today, higher education institutions are facing increasing demands for effectiveness and accountability. These demands challenge leaders to guide their institutions efficiently, and at the same time be true to their mission, culture, and traditions.

With a long history of outstanding service to the higher education community, Datatel brings to colleges and universities a comprehensive program to address these challenges -- The Datatel Center for Institutional Effectiveness.  This program of offerings is built upon the successes of higher education's quality movement pioneers, early adopters, and Datatel's acknowledged reputation for higher education expertise. The Center helps colleges and universities build institutional agility to better compete in the ever-changing higher education community, today and tomorrow.

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) programs offered through The Center guide campus leaders in developing effective management strategies and implementing successful action plans to achieve quality-based results. Through The Center's programs, institutions can improve their success in numerous areas:

  • Student satisfaction and retention
  • Faculty and staff morale
  • Institutional decision making
  • Data analysis and reporting
  • Public and private funding
  • Campus-wide progress toward institutional priorities

Workshops

Workshops offered through The Center provide a unique perspective on quality initiatives within higher education. Workshop participants gain valuable, practical knowledge that can facilitate immediate results for accelerating quality initiatives across their institutions.  Learn more about The Center's workshops.

Process Facilitation

The Datatel Center for Institutional Effectiveness can help your institution facilitate ongoing strategic management initiatives. Built upon continuous quality improvement (CQI) methodologies, appropriate tools, process mapping, and data are used to assist in the design of standard, effective processes and procedures for a specific area of concern. The Center facilitates practices that are stakeholder driven, data intensive, and results-oriented. It examines the fundamental infrastructure of an institution or work unit, and provides the necessary tools to improve the way your institution conducts business. Learn more about process facilitation.

Contact Us:

Contact Us:

To learn more about The Center, please contact:

Scott Epstein
Quality Planning Advisor
The Datatel Center for Institutional Effectiveness
swe@datatel.com
703.259.2826

Client Success

Client Success

Find out how Datatel Center for Institutional Effectiveness training gave the Baker College System “the processes to get past an issue’s surface problems, focus on its root causes, and then fix it. That’s the inherent spirit of continuous quality improvement.”

-- Amie Losee,
Dean of Business Administration, Baker Online

Read the entire client success profile.