Today more than ever, a postsecondary education is critical to success in the labor market. However, costs for higher education are skyrocketing and the discussion around access and completion has…
Taking College to the Community: Accelerating Accessibility to Language Education
Zina Haywood | Provost and Executive Vice President, Gateway Technical CollegeNationally, access to higher education has been the mission of the two-year community college for decades. College access, leadership, as well as meeting business, industry and local community needs, is…
Many colleges and universities today may find themselves where the University of Arizona was a few years ago—having millions of scholarship dollars to award without a modern tool to effectively…
America’s College Promise: An Opportunity We Can’t Afford to Ignore
Eduardo Padrón | President, Miami-Dade CollegeWhat if every student, nationwide, who desired a college education and was willing to do the hard work necessary to earn a degree, was given the opportunity to do so?…
America’s College Promise is the Pathway to Access Mission Fulfillment
Reginald Gates | Vice Chancellor for Communications and External Affairs, Tarrant County College DistrictMaking the Dream a Reality: Logistical and Infrastructural Considerations for the Free Two-Year College Environment
Vi Bergquist | Chief Information Officer, St. Cloud Technical and Community CollegeSTEM Transfer Success: Reflecting on Lessons Learned
Susan Martin | Associate Director of the Center for Women in Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Sarah JewettSTEM Transfer Success: The Value of Critical Reflection and Shared Responsibility
Sarah Jewett | Executive Director of STEM Transfer Student Success Initiative, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Susan MartinForging Pathways Back to College
Rebecca Pow | Associate Dean of Continuing Studies, University of AlabamaMeeting Students Where They Are: Critical for Success in Developmental Hybrid Programming
Stacey Guney | Director of the HLC ACCelerator, Austin Community CollegeBranch Campus or Online Program? Depends Who You’re Asking
Christine Chairsell | Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, Portland Community CollegeMOOCing the Mini Med
Helen Macfarlane | Director of Educational Technology at the School of Medicine, University of ColoradoOpen Courses Opening Doors to Developmental Education
A. Sasha Thackaberry | Associate Vice Chancellor of Learning Experience Design Innovation, National University
On average, it costs out-of-state students approximately $9,000 more to attend a public college or university than an in-state student. This difference in cost largely comes down to the fact…
Global Freshman Academy: Creating Access and Overcoming Early MOOC Setbacks
Anant Agarwal | President, edXThe American labor market is desperate for more degree-holders. Nearly half (48 percent) of American adults have a high school diploma but no postsecondary credential, but enrollment numbers are staying…
A lot of attention over the past few months has been given to free tuition at community colleges. However, there has been little talk about the budget growth necessary to…
Open Educational Utopia and the Individual Instructor
Matthew Prineas | Provost and Vice President-Academic, Athabasca UniversityHeralded for over a decade, the OER (open educational resources) revolution has, for most of this period, seemed always just out of reach. As little as three years ago, Shai…
The Case for Lower-Cost, High-Quality Online Degrees
Debbie Cavalier | Senior Vice President of Online Learning and Continuing Education and CEO of Berklee Online, Berklee College of MusicLoyalty Points En Route to Replacing Student Loans
Suzanne Tyson | Founder, HigherEdPointsToward a Two-Generation Approach: Innovative Strategies to Improve Education and Training for Parents
Katherine Saunders | Policy Analyst, CLASP Manuela EkowoAgainst the Grain: Evolving the Institution to Attract and Retain Single Parents
Meegan Bassett | Owner and Principal Consultant, Dugan-Bassett ConsultingThe Keys to Recruiting and Retaining Rural Learners
Mike Drish | Director of Admissions Recruitment and Outreach, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAdults and the Higher Ed Experience (Part 1)
Melora Sundt | Executive Vice Dean of the Rossier School of of Education, University of Southern CaliforniaChallenging the Low-Price Online Education Notion
David R. Cillay | Vice President of Academic Outreach and Innovation, Washington State UniversityDiverse Student Body Can Put an Institution Ahead
Janet Rutledge | Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland Baltimore CountyInternational Branch Campuses Bring Graduate Education to the World
Bill Mercer | Manager of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education Services, Texas A&M University at Qatar
The following interview is with Lise Saffran, interim director of the Master’s of Public Health (MPH) program at the University of Missouri. This June, the university began offering the MPH…
Innovation Focus Should Be on Quality, Not Cost
Amy Slaton | Professor of History, Drexel UniversityThe following interview is with Amy Slaton, a professor in the history and politics department at Drexel University. As innovation increases in the higher education space, particularly in teaching and…
The following email Q&A is with D. Wayne Robinson, president and CEO of Student Veterans of America (SVA). Robinson served in the U.S. Army and rose to the top of the…