Resources

Misaligned curriculum and catalog timelines cause delays, gaps, and student confusion. Here are 3 reasons alignment matters, and what's at stake.

From day-of-week patterns to delivery modalities, explore course schedule characteristics and how institutions structure their class offerings.

Learn more about the course demand forecasting tools offered by highly recognized academic operations platforms Coursedog, Ad Astra, and CourseLeaf.

Choosing the right academic operations platform is one of the most consequential decisions institutions make. Explore the top vendors with this guide.

Nine in ten institutions report academic operations barriers that impact students. Here’s what the data shows on how policy, technology, and scheduling efforts affect students.

Assessment management can work for you, not against you. Explore four strategies to save time and strengthen accountability across your institution.

The scope of academic operations continues to expand from behind-the-scenes administrative activities. Explore insights about the functions, structure, and future of its role.

The catalog is more than a course list. Understand how to navigate challenges and elevate this critical source of truth for students and advisors.

Assessment data is most powerful when it drives action. Discover how institutions can close the loop and convert insights into meaningful curricular changes.

Explore research that examines how institutions create the course schedule and how scheduling decisions around class delivery affect students.

From workforce shifts to student preferences, discover three trends driving the need for a modernized curriculum management process.

Institutions emphasize data-informed decisions, yet many say they don’t effectively leverage data. Discover realistic opportunities for improvement across academic operations.

Explore how institutions use degree audit solutions to track progress and predict student demand, with insights from over 650 higher ed admins.

A practical guide to creating student-centric program maps that ensure consistency and accessibility while prioritizing clarity, equity, and completion.

From staffing models to catalog timing, benchmark data reveals meaningful gaps in academic operations. See how aligning systems and structure can help improve student outcomes.

Scattered documents and decentralized ownership create strain. See how syllabus templates standardize information and ease faculty workload.

Academic scheduling shapes the student experience. Discover the metrics that quantify how scheduling inefficiencies affect student outcomes.

Explore how to identify where your assessment process may stall. Use the framework to reduce manual work and turn recommendations into action.

Explore key insights into how institutions leverage data, analytics, and optimization tools and where they have opportunities for improvement.

Explore how course schedules affect non-traditional students and what academic leaders can do to support access, flexibility, and timely progress.

From provost oversight and email-driven workflows, survey findings reveal the current state of curriculum management.

Discover how inefficiencies in classroom space management limit institutional capacity and where data points to opportunities for improvement.

Students face hidden challenges when navigating degree requirements. Explore how catalogs create confusion and where academic operations can do better.

Learn how AACRAO data on class demand projections can inform more effective academic scheduling and section planning.

When registration barriers block required courses, student momentum stalls. Discover how limited access disrupts completion timelines and student outcomes.

More than 50 higher ed leaders gathered in Princeton, NJ to discuss academic operations challenges, best practices, and future directions for curriculum, scheduling, catalog, policy, and assessment.

A look at the top findings from the 2025 Inside Higher Ed Provost Survey and what they mean for academic operations, resource planning, and student success.

A recent NASH and Coursedog webinar explores key survey results. Learn how system-level data sharing, academic operations, and strategic alignment are evolving.

Explore the findings from nearly 200 assessment professionals and learn how they approach staffing, technology, challenges, and processes. See how your institution compares and where there are opportunities for improvement.

Learn how Cape Cod Community College is leading a human-centric approach to support faculty and student well-being. Dr. Carlnita P Greene unpacks what it means to build meaningful relationships and create a student-ready college.

Dr. Michelle Lane shares her philosophy on leveraging data for informed decision-making, acting on assessment findings, and fostering deep community partnerships.

In an age where increases in student enrollment can no longer be taken for granted, Edison State Community College offers insight into how institutions can successfully serve students.

As more and more is demanded of higher education, academic administrators in operations roles are increasingly the architects of institutional transformation.

Located in the metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona, GateWay Community College is at the center of both growing industries and a growing population.

Almost any higher ed administrator will tell you that making major changes at an institution without faculty support makes the initiative substantially harder to get across the finish line.

Dr. Jesse Mason, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Minnesota State, embodies the transformative power of higher education.

If you’re a community college student who intends to transfer to a four-year university, how likely is that to actually happen?

Behind every successful student stands a well-oiled academic operations machine. Learn how both students and administrators perceive key academic functions such as course scheduling and the catalog.

Ian Wischmeier, University Registrar at Northern Arizona University, discusses what it means to measure how the registrar's office impacts student success.

Dr. Colin Marlaire, Provost at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design shares his experiences implementing technology and tips for garnering faculty buy-in.

Dr. Jill Wright, AVP of Assessment, Accreditation & Academic Services at Illinois Central College shares her journey in higher ed and what she's learned about innovation.

We speak with Kara Monroe, former Provost at Ivy Tech Community College, about new urgencies around curriculum and how institutions can keep up with evolving demands.

In this episode, we talk about the future of the student information system (SIS) and how technology needs at post-secondary institutions are evolving.