Executive Leadership 2025 Webinar 1: Adapting to Rapidly Changing Higher Education Landscape & the Role of Data

Includes a Live Web Event on 11/20/2025 at 3:00 PM (EST)

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Higher education leaders are confronting challenges at an unprecedented pace. Beyond developing and executing data-informed strategic plans, building effective teams, and communicating across complex organizations, many now find themselves serving as crisis managers. This webinar will examine how leaders can adapt to this rapidly evolving landscape—and how data can be leveraged as a powerful tool in the process. Drawing on real examples from institutions, we’ll highlight practical ways data and information can support effective leadership in times of change.

A live question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. 

Part of the Business Administration and Professional Intelligence domains within the NACUFS Body of Knowledge.

Learning Objective: Attendees will be able to identify and apply data-informed strategies to lead effectively through organizational change and crisis, leveraging real-world examples to enhance team performance, strategic planning, and cross-functional communication within higher education environments.

Drew Allen, Ph.D.

Associate Provost for Institutional Research & Analytics, Harvard University

Harvard University


Drew has over 15 years of experience using data and analysis to support strategic decision-making in higher education. He is the Associate Provost for Institutional Research & Analytics at Harvard University and a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he teaches courses on the use of data in areas like strategic enrollment management. Before joining Harvard, Drew served as associate vice president of institutional data analytics at Georgetown University, where he led the Office of Assessment and Decision Support. He also taught and conducted research in higher education policy at NYU Steinhardt in his seven years as a fellow. 


Prior to his work at Georgetown and NYU, Drew served as the executive director of the Initiative for Data-Driven Social Science at Princeton University, where he helped launch IDEAS for Higher Ed, a consulting group for internal analytics. In a previous role at the City University of New York (CUNY), he established an office devoted to integrated research, access to


Drew’s research on higher education policy has appeared in several publications, including Research in Higher Education and New Directions for Higher Education. He earned his Ph.D. in higher and postsecondary education at New York University and an M.A. in quantitative methods in the social sciences from Columbia University.

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Executive Leadership Webinar 1
11/20/2025 at 3:00 PM (EST)  |  60 minutes
11/20/2025 at 3:00 PM (EST)  |  60 minutes NACUFS Executive Leadership Live Webinar How leaders can adapt to this rapidly evolving landscape—and how data can be leveraged as a powerful tool in the process.
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