The Experiential Record at Nazareth College is a systematic, campus-wide data collection initiative created in-house to track all undergraduate and graduate students’ participation in experiential education. Implemented last academic year, this new process enables Nazareth to gather various, independent streams of data into one place, creating a centralized knowledge hub of student engagement. Benefits to students, faculty, staff and community include: an increase in interprofessional collaboration, stronger advising and coaching of students, innovative support strategies developed for targeted student populations, stronger relationships with community partners and sustained partnerships, and increased knowledge of and access to student success stories for marketing and donor relations. Examples of dashboards and reports by way of Tableau, the data visualization tool Nazareth uses, will also be shared with participants.
Speakers:
- Nuala S. Boyle has supported the advancement of community-engaged teaching and learning in higher education since 1997. As the inaugural (2010) director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, she oversees curricular and co-curricular community engagement, including the Center for Service-Learning, and facilitates the college’s experiential learning requirement within the core curriculum. Boyle is on the Advisory Council for Campus Compact of NY and PA and is on the Board of the National Society for Experiential Education, graduating from their Experiential Education Academy in 2014. She earned her B.A. in English from Stonehill College in Boston, MA and her M.A. in Religious Studies from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT.
- Nicholas LaMendola is the Director of Institutional Research at Nazareth College and has been instrumental in creating a data-informed environment for strategic decision making, planning, and assessment at Nazareth. LaMendola has leveraged his background in analytic statistics and predictive modeling to collaborate across divisions on projects such as student success, retention/graduation, co-curricular and experiential learning, overhaul of the faculty workload model, administrative assessment and diversity and inclusion. LaMendola earned his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, his M.A. in Brain & Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Arizona.