The Open Academic Analytics Initiative (OAAI) is a collaborative, multi-year grant program aimed at researching issues related to the scaling up of learning analytics technologies and solutions across all of higher education. The paper describes the goals and objectives of the OAAI, depicts the process and challenges of collecting, organizing and…

The three case studies presented in this paper are descriptive and evaluative in nature, and are designed to describe, explain, and portray in some detail three examples of COSIA partnerships. These cases are context bound; the place-based aspect of these cases is critical to the phenomenon being explored. Consistent with the goal for employing a…

Collection of articles, examines issues related to African Americans in higher education. Topics include black faculty; educational finance; law schools; black colleges; private universities; enrollment trends; high achieving African immigrants; bridging the racial computer gap; black women compared to black men and to white women in doctoral…