New for 2023!
What are the best data sources, analyses, and decision-making processes for evaluating your academic program portfolio? You will learn all of this in Gray’s Master Class series on best practices in program decision-making. We will share innovations and insights Gray has developed through our extensive experience conducting program evaluations for colleges and universities. This information will help your institution:
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Improve the quality and increase the speed of program decisions
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Identify healthy new programs that can increase enrollment
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Determine which current programs have opportunities for further growth
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Identify struggling programs in poor markets that may need to be sunsetted
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Build consensus on program decisions among faculty and administrators
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Help you make sound economic program decisions and avoid expensive mistakes
We will identify the best data sources for evaluating student demand, employment opportunities, and competition in your markets. We will share the underlying issues with the available data, including weaknesses in public sources (e.g., Google, IPEDS, and BLS) and challenges in paid subscription data. We will show how to calculate program and course economics down to the section level.
Master Class 1: Overview of Academic Program Evaluation
Featuring Bob Atkins
April 4 2023, 2-3 pm ET
From student demand to competition, employment opportunities to program economics, learn which data sources to use and how to use them. Discover how to merge data with institutional knowledge and experience to optimize academic program decision-making.
Master Class 2: Reaching Curricular Efficiency
Featuring Steve Probst
April 11 2023, 2-3 pm ET
Learn how to use instructional economics data to identify ways to reduce the total teaching workload, reduce the need to hire more faculty, make college more affordable, and minimize how budget cuts translate into higher workloads or inferior education.
Master Class 3: Advanced Analytics
Featuring Zachary Paz, Peter Starrett, and Youssef Aljabi
April 18 2023, 2-3 pm ET
Learn how to use predictive analytics to model the impact of program decisions on your institution’s future. Using demographic data and market trends, we will demonstrate how to project the size and growth of programs in a proposed portfolio. Using predictive scenarios, we will show how to evaluate the effects of program decisions on your institution’s bottom line.
Master Class 4: The Future of Academic Portfolio Evaluation and Management
Featuring Bob Atkins and guest
April 25 2023, 2-3 pm ET
Join us as we look at how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other new technologies provide more insight into what makes a successful academic program. We will show how using these tools in academic program planning and management can benefit the institution.
