As higher education institutions increasingly seek the data needed to support student success and demonstrate institutional effectiveness, they have turned to purpose-built software focused on particular areas, such as assessment or curriculum management. Each of these software systems answers a specific set of questions, or operationalizes specific processes, and many do those things well. But there are unanticipated consequences to using these point solutions.
First, campus data becomes siloed within each piece of software, making it difficult to gain big-picture insights.
