What a predictive analytics experiment taught 11 colleges about sharing data – Education Dive
Although the University Innovation Alliance’s ambitious plan to better use student data didn’t go quite as expected, members report benefits.
When the leaders of 11 prominent public research universities signed an agreement to form the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) in 2014, it was viewed as a fairly bold (if brazen) move. They were going to share ideas in an increasingly competitive higher ed environment to tackle the thorny issue of broadening access.
Their first big initiative as a group was maybe even edgier. They were going to work toward an aggressive goal of expanding admissions by using predictive analytics at a time when few people outside of the information technology field knew much about it. They hoped it would help them enroll and graduate more underserved students.