The Curricular Analytics Community is designed to involve faculty and staff in a process that leverages improvement science and curricular analytics tools to identify opportunities for equitable curriculum redesign at their institutions. High curricular complexity has been correlated with low retention rates, extended time to graduation, and increased credit accumulation for students.
The community allows institutions to quickly visualize curricula in new ways and then dynamically adjust these visualizations to test how changes impact curricular systems. The process helps participants locate problems of practice and design new ways of supporting student success. Drawing on the characteristics of a Networked Improvement Community, the Curricular Analytics Community has a well-defined aim—curricular redesign that will increase equitable persistence and graduation rates—and is guided by a theory of improvement, allowing members to work in an accelerated way to Plan, Do, Study, and Act.
Institutional teams of at least five people:
Your Institution has the option to create a team or utilize an existing team or committee. The individuals will vary by institution, a successful team is one most likely to design and create an equity-focused retention process at your institution.
How You’ll Benefit:
Reductions in complexity correlate with:
Fees are based on undergraduate enrollment as determined by College Navigator. Fees are assessed per institution, not per individual.
Undergraduate Enrollment:
Data visualizations help your team take a deeper look at various systems that affect students. Graphic representations help your team build support and communicate across your institution.
Applications are currently being accepted for Fall 2024 cohort. You can apply at this link.
Applicants are accepted on a first come, first served basis; subject to approval. Early registration is recommended. Fall 2024 Cohort Applications are due by August 21, 2024.
Institutional teams of at least five people:
The synchronous meetings will begin on September 5, 1-2:30 p.m.
September 5, 1-2:30 p.m.
September 12, 2-3 p.m.
September 16, 1:30-3 p.m.
September 23, 2-3 p.m.
September 30, 1:30-3 p.m.
October 7, 2-3 p.m.
October 21, 1-2:30 p.m.
You will receive an application confirmation email within 1 week of applying. An agreement will be sent to the person designated in the application. Once the agreement has been signed you will receive further information from the Academy facilitators. Please contact info@gardnerinstitute.org with any questions.
“The Curricular Analytics Community tools helped us to look deeply into the various systems that affect our students, to identify causes of delays and unintended obstacles, and to consider why systems were designed in certain ways. More than that, these tools led us from those analyses to action plans that we can implement immediately.”
Sarah L. Peters, Ph.D.
Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, East Central University
“The Curricular Analytics Community tools helped us to look deeply into the various systems that affect our students, to identify causes of delays and unintended obstacles, and to consider why systems were designed in certain ways. More than that, these tools led us from those analyses to action plans that we can implement immediately.”
Sarah L. Peters, Ph.D.
Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, East Central University
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