About

The ITA survey tool, Sensemaking Conversation, and the additional support materials were inspired by conversations and observations, as well as guidance and input from many institutions and intermediaries across the postsecondary field.


The tools, methods, and resources to support field stakeholders in leveraging this reflection approach are a result of a larger research and development program conducted in collaboration with multiple partners that included fiscal sponsors, product designers, expert rubric authors, in addition to user feedback from institutional and intermediary users.

The effort to gather and incorporate user input and feedback was scaffolded by extensive program management over multiple years; funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The hope is that these resources will enable and inspire institutions to reflect on the changes necessary to prioritize and drive transformation toward equitable student success.

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Many organizations have helped shaped the ITA survey as rubric authors including:

Operating Capacities

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Leadership & Culture

HCM Strategists

Institutional Policy / State Policy

National Association of College and University Business Officers

Strategic Finance

Association for Institutional Research

Institutional Research (IR)

Educause

Information Technology (IT)

Solutions

Education Commission of the States

Developmental Education Reform

Advising Success Network 

Advising

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

Emergency Aid

Every Learner Everywhere

Digital Learning

Pathways

Community College Research Center

2-year pathways

United Negro College Fund

4-year pathways

Rubric contributor organizations:

EquityworksNW

Embedding equity

National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago

Survey design

Institutions that have already used this as part of their transformation journey