Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges: A New Model for Educators - Softcover

Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz offer a research-based model and actionable approach for using data strategically at community colleges to increase completion rates as well as other metrics linked to student success. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational change, the authors reveal successful strategies for helping college personnel engage with data more effectively.
 
Based on two decades of experience working with colleges across the country, Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges is a much-needed resource for those concerned with improving academic success for all students.
 
“Before your college spends thousands of dollars on the latest data system and tools, buy this book to find out how to use data you already have to better help your students succeed. It is packed with practical guidance based on the authors’ decades of experience helping colleges across the country improve student outcomes and institutional performance.”
—Davis Jenkins, senior research scholar, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
 
“Phillips and Horowitz perform a great service, providing strategies and tools that help community college practitioners use data to discern where action is needed and whether that action makes a difference. The authors demonstrate an uncommonly nuanced understanding of issues on the ground as community colleges strive mightily to strengthen student success and equity in outcomes.”
—Kay McClenney, senior advisor to the President/CEO, American Association of Community Colleges
 
“Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz highlight a critical point for college leaders: data without context does little to help us understand how to improve student outcomes. This book provides college leaders tools to visualize the most important trends in student data and allows them to make the most impactful decisions for improving the lives of our students.”
—Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor, California Community Colleges
 
Brad C. Phillips is the president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC). Jordan E. Horowitz is the vice president of IEBC.