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Athens State University (ATSU) is one of the few remaining upper‐division institutions of higher education in the United States. At the undergraduate level, only students who have earned 36 transferable semester hours from an accredited institution are eligible for admission to ATSU. Athens State University strives to provide quality teaching and learning and high‐quality academic programs to its students. However, it is challenging for Athens State to benchmark itself to traditional 4‐year institutions due to its unique transfer‐only status. This chapter presents alternative metrics that ATSU has identified to analyze student performance and success.

CZSaw [1] is a visual analytics tool for sense-making across entities, documents, and relations with a focus on supporting the analysis process. It uses a variety of flexible data visualizations to represent and explore networks of entities and relations from different perspectives. CZSaw supports clustering documents and entities into smaller groups to make sense of them and weave individual facts into a complete picture. CZSaw also provides entity refinement functions to support interactive data cleaning. Its dependency propagation mechanism speeds the analysis sensemaking loop by automatically synchronizing data and views, and propagating changes to the whole system.