Below are free, downloadable tools that we’ve developed to improve practice. They’ve been the result of our direct work with institutions as we’ve learned what works. They are intended provide a framework for creating actionable data and to change the institutional fabric for decision making. We hope these tools and checklists will save you time, and help focus your work on the strategic alternatives that are before all institutions. Please feel that you may freely adapt them or even improve them for your own use; we only ask that you let us know when you do so that we learn from your experiences.
These tools represent significant and determined work. We intend to develop more of them to contribute to higher education. We believe that open-source tools can positively impact higher education networks. Please take a minute to read the Creative Commons rules if you’re uncertain about how open-source sharing can benefit you and your organization.
The links below provide free access to these tools:
- Checklist for Evaluating Academic Support Units
- Checklist for Evaluating Institutional Practices and Policies Impacting Recruitment, Retention, and Success for Students of Color and Low Income Students
- Developing a 21st Century Faculty: Institutional Structures and Strategies for Online Instruction
- Evaluation of Intervention Programs for Low-Income Students and Students of Color
- Institutional Data Readiness Assessment Tool
- Learner and Institutional Alignment
- Pre-Strategic Planning Assessment
- Strategic Planning for Student Success
- Using Mixed Methods for Strategic Planning
- Strategic Research for Enrollment Management
- Tools for Developing and Evaluating E-Learning Quality
- Using Research to Align Academic and Technical Instructional Programs
Kindly note:
All work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Visitors are welcome to download these tools, share them, and even change them. Please credit Voorhees Group LLC as the first creator of the tool you download. Please also don’t sell it to others or use it to sell anything.