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If the pandemic has shown anything, it is that colleges and universities can make significant change like scaling online learning or implementing test-blind admissions policies much faster than they thought. Fortunately, there’s a process that can make rapid change far more manageable than the haphazard experience many institutions had in spring 2020.
Short-term improvement cycles, pioneered for public purposes and developed over time by the Carnegie Foundation and the Institute for Health Care Improvement, are commonly used in a variety of settings inside and outside education. In recent years, our team at Sova has been working with institutions to use simplified 90-day and 120-day improvement cycles to make progress on vexing problems that negatively impact transfer students.
Brandon Bishop
Brandon Bishop joined SHEEO as a policy analyst in October 2019. In this role, Brandon’s areas of focus are: supporting the SHEEO Membership Survey and writing the SHEEO Membership Report, supporting SHEEO’s racial equity work, and working on the Frontier Set project. Additionally, Brandon provides research support for various other projects at SHEEO, ranging from evidence-based policy making to rural, postsecondary education. Some of Brandon’s publications include the “2020 SHEEO Membership Report” and the “State Agencies and Systems of Higher Education Leading for Equity.” Before joining SHEEO, Brandon was a state relations associate at Education Commission of the States. While in graduate school, Brandon interned at the Colorado Department of Higher Education, supporting the department’s work with the Talent, Innovation, and Equity grant. Brandon holds an M.A. in higher education from the University of Denver and a B.A. in political science from Ari