Evidence-based advisory strategy
ALIGN Evidence helps colleges use graduate outcomes and workforce data to design advisory boards, align programs, and prove results for funding.
01The framework
ALIGN organizes advisory work around five defined inputs: academic programs, labor market data, intelligence on outcomes, advisory guidance, and employer networks. Every recommendation can be traced back to verifiable evidence.
Inventory the programs, pathways, and credentials in scope for review.
Layer in regional demand, wages, posting volume, and employer concentration.
Pull graduate destinations, employer hiring patterns, and progression evidence.
Translate findings into a defensible, balanced advisory composition.
Connect program advisors to the employers shaping real graduate outcomes.
The gap
Advisory boards are often built on relationships, availability, and assumptions. That can leave programs disconnected from the employers, roles, and skill paths that actually shape graduate outcomes.
As accountability increases, colleges need defensible evidence they can use in advisory strategy, program alignment, accreditation conversations, and grant reporting — not anecdote.
02Engagements
ALIGN delivers two complementary engagements: FORGE rebuilds advisory boards around the employers actually hiring your graduates, and PROVE translates graduate outcome data into the reporting funders, accreditors, and institutional leadership expect to see.
Identify the companies hiring your graduates and structure advisory participation around real workforce demand.
Support grant reporting, accreditation conversations, and program decisions with evidence-backed insights.
03How an engagement runs
Every engagement follows four disciplined steps — analyze, identify, align, and report — so each recommendation is documented, defensible, and traceable back to the data behind it.
Review graduate outcomes, employer patterns, and existing institutional data.
Find the employers, roles, and skills that matter most to your programs.
Strengthen advisory composition and program alignment using evidence.
Turn findings into clear language for grants, leadership, and partners.
Built for accountable programs
ALIGN Evidence works with colleges that need advisory boards and workforce strategies tied to what employers actually hire for — and that need to show their work.
Start the conversation
Tell us a little about your program. We'll follow up to discuss how data can strengthen your advisory board, program alignment, and outcomes reporting.
