Q&A
Data collection systems and advisement tools
0:20:59
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Council Member Dinowitz inquires about CUNY's data collection systems for monitoring transfer student experiences. CUNY representatives explain their current tools and future plans for data integration and automated support.
- Transfer Explorer is the main tool for transfer information
- An advisement tool captures student support data
- CUNY is working on integrating information across both tools
- EAB Navigate, a new system-wide tool, will track student data and success metrics
- The goal is to move away from surveys and towards automatic data compilation
- CUNY aims to share information across institutions to facilitate transfers from the moment students enter
Eric Dinowitz
0:20:59
What data system collection systems are currently in place to monitor the experience of students who intend to transfer to help ensure their success in a hanging a degree.
Alicia Alvero
0:21:14
So you're asking about the data system that we have.
0:21:18
So it's a compilation, I think, of of tools.
0:21:22
Transfer Explorer is the main tool that we have, but It doesn't capture the support.
0:21:28
The advisement tool is the one that captures a support.
0:21:31
And this summer, we are integrating the information across both.
0:21:35
So the additional ports aren't something that that we track outside of our advisement tool.
Eric Dinowitz
0:21:41
We've had hearings before, and it's I I you know, we we have these questions about students who come into college and then students who leave college.
0:21:53
And it always seems like a really good idea to ask students a couple questions, you know, where you come from, why are you hear what what where are you going?
0:22:04
And then when they leave college to do similar survey questions, and it I don't know, feels like each time it is acknowledged as a good idea, but it seems that anytime there is a survey question, it's through these various systems, and it doesn't apply to every student.
Wendy Hensel
0:22:23
Well, part of what we're trying to do is get out of surveys, which have lower response rates and go into automatic data compilation so that we have that information whether or not a student steps forward to provide it or not.
0:22:35
And one of the key challenges that we have up until now is often our our systems don't talk to each other across institutions.
0:22:43
And so we recently acquired EAB Navigate for every school within our system.
0:22:49
EAB Navigate tracks student data, answer about student success, how they're doing in their classes, and we're working to be able to share that information across.
0:22:59
And we can easily add in that part of our conversation right now.
0:23:03
That data that automatically gets identified so that it isn't the student that has to tell us but the incoming and current colleges that are constantly in contact to facilitate that transfer from the moment that they enter.
0:23:15
But up until now, what you're seeing is a system that did not do that prior to 2023 and going forward from 20 I get really 2024.
0:23:25
We will have that ability.
0:23:26
So that is a new thing that has come on board.
0:23:28
But our goal is that it is not reliant on a survey but instead on an adviser conversation where that information for every single student is inputted into our systems and can be shared across.
0:23:40
Institutions.