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‘Freedom on the Move,’ Clarifying Complicity in American History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The “Freedom on the Move" database, maintained at Cornell University in partnership with several universities, is a free and open archive of “runaway slave” ads placed in newspapers in the 1700s and 1800s. This is why I’m so enamored with a database called “Freedom on the Move.” So, I did a simple search for “shoemaker.”

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. A deep knowledge of database management, statistical analysis, and research techniques are generally necessary skills for an analytics team. Data scientists.

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The 4 most common barriers to higher ed data and analytics success

EAB

I recently facilitated a survey of higher ed leaders to understand their data and analytics goals and pain points. Facilitate onboarding by recording training sessions and creating templates for onboarding processes. Create data dictionaries to define codes and fields in your databases and systems. July 29, 2022. May 26, 2022.

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