EBI has been an amazing professional resource for me! Utilizing the various assessment packages available through EBI has allowed me to better understand students, their experiences, and the learning that is occurring through their engagement with various programs and activities. EBI has made assessment easy!
University of North Dakota
Cassie Gerhardt, Ph.D.,
Program Director for Student Involvement
The partnership between ACUHO-I and EBI has benefited housing professionals more than ever imagined. When EBI introduced assessments and benchmarking they were unfamiliar concepts and today they are things we use on a daily basis and have improved our work with students, parents, staff, and faculty on our own campuses.
Central Michigan University
Joan M. Schmidt,
Associate Director of Residence Life
I remember sitting in a breakout session at ACUHO-I '97 in Minneapolis as a small college Director of Residence Life (with minimal, non student affairs part-time staff). I was blown away by the transformative potential being presented by EBI leadership with real time, data driven benchmarking and have been on board ever since. EBI quickly became an extension of my staff in that they enabled me to provide answers specific to my students that would have taken countless focus groups to garner. The information then allowed me to put money, training and effort into areas important to the students. EBI remains innovative and forward thinking as evidenced by their partnering & development efforts for MAP-Works which I signed up for with no hesitation due to my previous 10 years with them. I can say with complete confidence that their responsiveness to end user feedback proves that they live up to their own slogan to remain catalysts for their OWN continuous improvement.
SUNY Fredonia
Gary Bice, Jr.,
Director of Residence Life
The program allows students to tell you what’s on their minds at a very early date. This helps get the right person on campus the right information to make the right interventions to keep students on campus. I’ve been in higher education for 26 years and haven’t seen anything like the MAP-Works program before.
University of Wyoming
Rebecca Vinzant,
Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs
The on-campus training really helped crystallize what we were doing. It connected key campus players with a highly knowledgeable and extremely helpful colleague who customized the training to meet our needs. We also appreciated the reassuring tone and specific answers to questions that helped us move forward in the midst of our skittishness about such a big project.
University of Northern Iowa
Drake Martin,
Assistant Director of Residence Education
Implementing MAP-Works has been a wonderful thing for us. It occasions deep and rich conversations between faculty, staff, students, and their parents. The truly exciting part is the connectivity that comes with the communication process behind the survey, and how it helps us ensure students get the service they need when they need it.
IPFW
Bruce Busby,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Success
We found that MAP-Works’ ability to put vital information about every interaction between a student and our staff just a click away opened new doors for expedient action.
University of San Diego
Donald Godwin, Ph.D,
Dean of Students
MAP-Works has played a critical role in our Student Success Initiative. Taking stock of our freshmen during the first few weeks of their first semester has given us a snapshot of student experience that is very useful. We have been able to act on the data that MAP-Works provides.
Colorado State University
Paul Thayer,
Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Special Advisor to the Provost for Retention
Our first-year retention rate went from 67% to 74% and as the campus retention specialist, I believe that our investment in MAP-Works played a part in that increase.
West Liberty University
Amena Oliver Anderson,
Retention Specialist
MAP-Works has helped build collaboration across departments.
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Nathan Gump,
Ph.D. MAP-Works Campus Coordinator Staff Psychologist