Five years ago, CASE acquired the Voluntary Support of Education Survey (VSE) and introduced new metrics on alumni engagement. What major trends have we been tracking since then? Where are trends for community colleges similar or different than other types of institutions? What do we know and what don’t we know? In answering these questions, we will focus on the unique challenges that Community Colleges have in building sustainable data practices--staffing resources, broad alumni populations, historically low participation in benchmarking, and some pervasive data myths--and ways to overcome these challenges. Regardless of where you are in your data journey, you will leave knowing ways to improve your strategic use of data, track more of what matters, and utilize the resources CASE has to offer to support your efforts.