Attracting Students
Community Crisis: Staying Engaged with Your Faculty, Staff and Learners
John LaBrie | Dean and Associate Provost for Professional Education, Clark UniversityAs COVID-19 continues to develop and impact our everyday lives, higher education is trying its best to quickly respond to each developing issue. As everyone takes on social distancing, how…
Teaching Online from Home? Make Cybersecurity a Priority
James Kenigsberg | Chief Technology Officer, 2UAs a global pandemic forces university campuses to shut down, faculty around the world are doing their best to create academic continuity for students by moving their classes online. Many…
Remote Learning: Peer Resources for Higher Education
James Baldwin | President, Excelsior College John CaronThis marks a new week in ever-changing times as New York State mandated 100 percent of work be done remotely for non -essential businesses. Over a one-week period, Excelsior College…
The Killing of American Higher Education (Part 5)
Alan Yeck | Director of Professional and Continuing Education, Elmira CollegeThe Dirty, Rotten, Crooked, Broken, Student Loan System and the Immoral Bankers, Brokers, Collectors, and Corrupt Politicians Who Make Billions Off of It While the Courts Garnish Wages and Destroy…
2020: The Year of Boutique Employability
Julia Ivy | Faculty Director of the Masters in International Management, Northeastern UniversityAt the beginning of December, a journalist from Northeastern University contacted me to schedule an interview about my research on personal strategy and my recently published book Crafting Your EDGE…
Community College Enrollment and Unemployment
Charlie Collins | Deputy Executive for Workforce Training, Maine Community College SystemCommunity colleges and the unemployment rate have long held a cyclical relationship. Two-year colleges have traditionally seen enrollments rise as jobs disappear in economic downturns and enrollments fall when jobs…
Taking Initiative To Bring Back Adults
Buffy Tanner | Director of Innovation and Special Projects, Shasta College Matt Bergman | Program Director and Research Faculty Member, University of LouisvilleTracy Robinson | Director of Innovative Academic Initiatives, University of MemphisAs the traditional student population decreases, there’s a greater need to serve adults who don’t have a degree but have some college experience. This demographic covers over 26.5 million Americans,…
Mature Workers in a Global Economy: The Importance of Community Colleges
Phyllis Cummins | Senior Research Scholar in the Scripps Gerontology, Miami UniversityAdults ages 40 and above represent over half of the labor force in the U.S. and that proportion is projected to remain constant through 2028. At the same time, the…