Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) Accelerator Onboarding Course
The PDP Accelerator Onboarding Course is designed to support college teams that are new to the Postsecondary Data Partnership. Participants will connect with colleagues and mentors and complete a comprehensive PDP data submission to maximize dashboard functionality and utility for helping colleges advance student success. The course content is available virtually for participants to access when it best suits their schedule and is supplemented with live sessions for real-time engagement with PDP experts. Since 2021, ATD has offered a PDP Onboarding Course dedicated to helping institutions develop and submit their data files to the Clearinghouse to populate the PDP dashboards. Since its inception, this course has served over 500 individuals from over 300 institutions.
Course Session: July 7–August 8, 2025
Register by June 30, 2025Course Session: August 11–September 12, 2025
Register by August 4, 2025Redesigned: Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) Data Discovery & Decision Support
The PDP Data Discovery & Decision Support Course teaches participants to use the PDP to ask critical questions, use intersectional data to explore previously unanswerable questions, identify institutional performance gaps, assess progress toward closing those gaps, and inform institutional decision-making. Redesigned for 2025, the course structure provides a foundation for participants to build their expertise with the dashboards from the group up and to translate insights gained in the dashboards into storytelling and sensemaking activities that advance the usage of the tool at their institutions. Participants will interact with colleagues and mentors and collaboratively navigate the ever-growing demands for better data to inform better decisions and advance the use of asset-based language. Offered virtually, the course enables participants to access the content when it suits their schedule. Additional live sessions are offered for real-time engagement, expert insights, live chatting, and Q&A. A summary of these live sessions will be available for those unable to attend them. In addition, an on demand Ask the Expert option will be available for individual questions.
Course Session: July 7–August 15, 2025
Course Session: September 22–October 31, 2025
Register by September 12, 2025
NEW: Data Literacy to Drive Change
This six-week online course introduces data literacy for professionals committed to improving student success. Participants will deepen their data literacy skills to identify, diagnose, and develop a plan to address an institutional barrier that prevents students from thriving. We welcome the participation of higher education professionals and interdisciplinary teams across student services, academics (including faculty), institutional research, and information technology at two- and four-year institutions.
The course includes weekly asynchronous activities and a one-hour synchronous session each Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Course Session: July 7–August 15, 2025
NEW: Analysis-Ready Files Usage Webinar Series
This series of two webinars introduces participants to the power of the PDP Analysis-Ready (AR) files. Topics covered include the format, contents, and uses of the AR files and multiple Excel tools developed by PDP partners. Each of these tools allows copying your AR files into the spreadsheet, which auto-populates visualizations not available in the PDP dashboards. All of these tools are freely available to users.
Course Session: July 17 and July 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
More:
- Download and share the PDP course offerings flyer with your institution and colleagues.
- Read Dr. Lisa’s Stich’s ATD’s New Advanced PDP Course: Offering Colleges a Deeper Dive into the Data blog to learn more about our work in helping institutions develop and submit their data files to the Clearinghouse to populate the PDP dashboards.
- See what other ATD services are available to support your institution’s PDP work.
