Phoenix College has a strategic priority to operationalize a robust culture of equity-minded, data-informed continuous improvement. More specifically, PC's goals aim to ensure all departments are regularly engaging in equity-minded, data-informed program review, and use data to drive resource allocation (time, fiscal, capital, human).
Aligned with PC's strategic priorities, the Title V project aims to promote and foster basic data literacy skills across the institution; to provide data tools and the training to use them, and the autonomy to work with them on practices that are not the subject of large, institutional data sets yet have the potential to inform and impact them. As we progress through Goal 4 of this project, PC will demonstrate a standard of data literacy proficiency that supports and validates practices designed to guide institutional practice to demonstrate impact.
Data Literacy Objectives:
Develop & adopt a standard of practice for data
Assess programs for data literacy
Provide data tools and training to staff & faculty
Identify institutional data projects; disseminate result; repeat “data cycle”
Data Champions foster student success by leading various data projects and providing support for PC faculty and staff in using institutional data.
Student Success Data Mini-Grants (SSDMG) empower PC faculty and staff to improve student success outcomes through data-driven projects.
The goal of the survey was to gauge both the perceived level of data literacy, as well as the actual ability to use data and metrics by college employees