Overview

December 6

Student success is a top priority for higher education leaders. They know they need timely, accurate, and relevant data to support students’ changing needs, develop a sense of community and belonging on campus, and drive positive student outcomes, including timely graduation and employability.

But too often that crucial information is locked in siloed technology systems that are owned by different campus departments. Student information systems (SISs), customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and admissions and enrollment systems are just a few of the myriad campus solutions that house critical data. Unfortunately, most of the time these systems do not integrate or communicate.

Join the Center for Digital Education on December 6 at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern to hear from higher education leaders on how you can build a data strategy for the future to unlock access to this data and drive student success.

We’ll cover:

Establishing the vision: The transformative power of data and what your strategy should look like
Who needs to be at the table to make your vision a reality
The critical role of champions to push forward a more integrated technology and data ecosystem
Creating a culture of data sharing and building a data governance strategy
The importance of data literacy across stakeholders
How emerging technologies like data lakes can help achieve the integration desired

Speakers

Christopher Sedore

Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Tufts University

Chris Sedore is the Vice President for IT and Chief Information Officer at Tufts University. Chris is a transformative leader with broad experience in information technology, online education, enrollment management, and executive leadership. Prior to joining Tufts, he served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer at University of Texas at Austin; President and Chief Executive Officer for the New York State Education and Research Network (NYSERNet); at Syracuse University, Chris held several leadership roles, including Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Operations, and Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management.

Jim Bradley

Chief Information Officer, Sam Houston State University

James Bradley serves as the Chief Information Officer at Sam Houston State University. He earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law Houston and holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Management Information Systems from the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Sam Houston is his third Chief Information Officer assignment following service at Trinity University in San Antonio and at the University of Texas at Arlington. He also served as Assistant Vice President for Information Technology and Academic Computing at Tulane University and as an Executive Director for Technology Support Services at the University of Houston.

Jimmy Jung

Senior Vice Chancellor, Rutgers University - Camden

Dr. Jimmy Jung currently serves as the Senior Vice Chancellor at Rutgers University-Camden, overseeing student success, enrollment management, and institutional research. Dr. Jung has over two decades of experience that includes successful change management and improving institutional level outcomes. Jimmy is recognized as a leader in data-informed strategic planning and has served on the predictive analytic advisory boards of IBM and McGraw-Hill. In addition, Dr. Jung’s expertise made him a highly sought-after consultant to educational institutions and non-profit organizations on marketing, financial aid leveraging, program evaluation, advanced data modeling, and student success.

Mark Hampton

Executive Education Advisor, Amazon Web Services

Prior to joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dr. Hampton served for 30 years as an administrator at six different institutions of higher education ranging from a small private liberal arts college to several large research universities with academic medical centers, holding faculty rank at three such institutions. Throughout his career in higher education, Dr. Hampton has held Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) roles as well as institution-level leadership roles in analytics, and has played key leadership roles in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations, cloud migrations, managed-services provisioning of IT services, and the adoption of analytics-based decision-support and resource-allocation systems.

Brian Cohen — Moderator

Vice President, Center for Digital Education

Brian Cohen is the Vice President of the Center for Digital Government and Center Digital Education. Prior to joining the Center, Brian served for 30 years in IT leadership roles with the City of New York and most recently with the City University of New York (CUNY).

Webinar

Data's Transformative Moment: Revolutionizing Student Success in Higher Education