Connect data with decision-making to compete and thrive—or paltry prospects and eroding enrollments will continue, says UB guest columnist and UB Tech featured speaker Jason Simon. Simon, who is associate vice president for Data, Analytics, and Institutional Research at the University of North Texas, provides strategies for getting started.

Women have surpassed the number of men in colleges in the U.S. and many other parts of the world. Women are also set to become the majority in the college-educated workforce in the U.S.

The problem of food insecurity on college campuses has caught the attention of Congress, where new pending legislation would make it easier to collect data on food and housing insecurity and connect hungry college students with resources to help solve the issue.

The Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research and Reform at Penn State provides yet another example of the higher ed community's push to eliminate hazing, sexual assault and other dangerous behaviors at fraternities and sororities.