They are examining how students fared with online learning to determine how to improve instruction going forward. They’re considering evidence-based strategies for encouraging students to reenroll. And they’re weighing new data on how to build their classes to optimize revenue or how to evaluate a merger’s prospects for success.

As colleges and universities try to prepare for the next normal, these tools and processes will be all the more important to student retention and success.

You can learn more about new and ongoing trends in analytics in this collection.