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September, 2020 News:
- ASA Partner Sue Clery conducted Early Momentum Metrics: What? Why? How? And Now What?, a virtual workshop for the Oregon Community College Association Student Success Center. This workshop offered tools to help campus teams come together to develop an actionable data inquiry, both generally and with an equity focus. We also provided tips for how to apply the inquiry now that so much has changed with policies, programs, and course delivery due to COVID-19. Campus teams voiced a range of feelings about data, as represented in the image to the right.
- ASA has been selected as a partner in Catalyst:Ed's Postsecondary Expert Network. Catalyst:Ed supports The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Intermediaries for Scale (IFS) initiative by identifying and connecting technical and content experts with grantee's project needs. ASA will contribute its data and evaluation expertise within the student success context.
- ASA contributed to NACAC's Data Needs of Admission Professionals white paper, based on findings from a working group of admission professionals.
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