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“With the limited resources that we have, these tools have really helped us think about what will have the most positive impact on student outcomes.”

“This project helped us take an award-winning initiative to the next level and helped us to better understand how to allocate funding to serve all of our students while closing equity gaps so they can all thrive.”

“This resource and our improvement project helped us realize what is possible when we work across departments toward the same goal. We plan to use this tool to determine new initiatives and evaluate the performance of existing ones.”

“The more specific you can be about the costs and the benefits of an initiative, and the more you can breakdown the details and show the benefits of a program, the more likely you are to make better decisions about what to fund, and how to prioritize funding.”

“One of our strategic goals is to be able to forecast and prepare for future learners, and to holistically support their educational goals. And when we identified targets for the goal, we realized that we really need to have data governance in place to be able to assess that.”

“There was major interest from finance and budget colleagues, and others within NMSU strategic goal teams, to utilize these questions to spark mindset shifts for working groups and departments. The tool will be disseminated to additional teams at NMSU for consideration.”

“We had a lot of anecdotal stories about this student or that student. But there wasn't a lot of data that we had that would point us in the direction of why students weren't retaining. Is it a financial issue? Is it a preparedness issue?”