This study aims to develop a list of technological enhancements to a financial aid analytics application (F3A) designed to assist higher education leaders in gaining actionable insights for decision-making with grants optimization. This research utilizes the Design Science Research framework which highlights the design and evaluation of an IT…

The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) initiated a refereed track for paper submissions to the conference in 2008. In fact, at the 2008 business meeting, the membership approved three different presentation tracks: refereed with 3 blind reviews for each paper, session with paper where the author submits a paper but it is…

Institutions--even entire sectors of the education system--too often operate independently of each other, maintaining discrete student-record systems. This makes it difficult to trace a student's progress through higher education and into the workforce--and that disconnection hampers efforts to improve the system. Only by systematically collecting…

Describes the use of geographic information systems (GIS) by a "local learning team" to map socioeconomic patterns in Jackson County, Kentucky, and to evaluate the distribution of local funding and the geographic equity of representation related to the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community program. Discusses advantages and disadvantages…

Now that all 50 states and the District of Columbia are building statewide longitudinal data systems, the next step is to ensure that the information in these systems is used to improve student learning. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has identified 10 actions that states can take to ensure that the right data are available and accessible and…

The policy implications of the State Level Information Base (SLIB) project of the National Center for Higher Education Management was examined by the Council of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities. The original purpose of the SLIB project was to develop a comprehensive and coordinated set of data elements that could serve each state's…

A description is presented of the first two years of a review that assessed the State Level Information Base (SLIB) project of the National Center for Higher Education Management. The Council of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities undertook this investigation to determine the relevance of an externally developed data system for…

Suggestions for developing a data brokerage capability for state associations are offered, based on an investigation by the Council of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities of the data system developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management. Since this data system (the State Level Information Base (SLIB)) was externally…

Early state and local progress toward implementation of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was reviewed. Data were collected through visits to selected sites in Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Vermont and a 90-item Workforce System Information and Evaluation (WSIE) data collection form. The following aspects of WIA…