Case Study: Mountwest Community & Technical College cuts program reporting from four weeks to 30 minutes with Evisions Argos

From four weeks to 30 minutes: program reporting with Argos

Mountwest Community & Technical College faced a significant challenge in producing its annual program performance reports. Following staffing reductions, the institution lacked dedicated IT and data leadership, leading to undocumented data standards and concerns about data integrity. The manual process of creating these reports involved running separate SQL queries, moving data into Excel and Word, and generating PDFs for each program, a task that took the Institutional Research office three to four weeks to complete during critical compliance deadlines.

Using Evisions' Argos reporting platform, Mountwest automated this process. They built Argos DataBlocks to consolidate five years of program-level data and created a banded report that generates a consistent PDF snapshot for each academic program in under 30 minutes. The solution from Evisions enabled the college to reduce its DFW rates by 13%, narrow its performance gap with the state average, and make program performance a regular part of academic conversations, all while saving weeks of manual labor.

Mountwest Community & Technical College