Proven Techniques to Enhance Data and Decisions for Financial Aid Professionals to Improve Student Success

Data are everywhere across institutions of higher education, and access to analytical tools and reporting software means that a wide array of higher education employees, including financial aid professionals, can be actively involved in converting data into decision-support information. This presentation provides specific examples of opportunities for financial aid professionals to partner with others for more effective use of data and information for decision-making to ensure student and institutional success, including: supporting students as decision makers; embracing your role as data producers, data consumers, and decision makers; and building relationships with institutional research and other data producers.