Higher Ed as a Business
For millennia, higher education institutions have remained relatively unchanged but this is no longer tenable in today’s competitive environment. In order to remain relevant to societal demands and responsive to student needs, colleges and universities must operate more like businesses.
How Continuing Education Divisions Can Help Their Institutions Thrive in the New Economy
Arthur Levine | President, Woodrow Wilson FoundationThe economic shift from an industrial to an information-based economy has ramifications across all segments of society, including higher education. While some universities will survive the transition to this new…
Education Or Revenue Generation? Revisiting Business Practices in Higher Education
Mark Kretovics | Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration, Kent State UniversityIn 2010, Mark Kretovics published Business Practices in Higher Education: A Guide for Today’s Administrators, a breakthrough guide offering higher education and student affairs professionals an understanding of the fundamental…
Increasing Opportunity For Credit-Bearing Students through Non-Traditional Divisions
Paolo Gardinali | Associate Director of the Division of Professional and Continuing Education, UC Santa Barbara ExtensionCaught between the professional development focus of continuing education and the credit-bearing world of traditional academia, non-traditional, credit-bearing students—those seeking to pursue or complete a degree through non-traditional channels—are an…
Reflections on 30 Years as a University President (Part Two): Getting Embedded in the Community
Robert A. Scott | President Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus, Adelphi UniversityA leader on campus must finds ways to listen—walk the halls and pathways, attend events—always looking for opportunities to ask, “What is going well? What do you wish had been…
Reflections on 30 Years as a University President (Part One): The Constant Pursuit of Quality
Robert A. Scott | President Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus, Adelphi UniversityThe goal of a university president is to bring together people, ideas and resources in order to help shape an environment that fosters advancement in knowledge, skills, abilities and values…
Face Forward: New Strategies For An Intensive English Program In Uncertain Times
Sandra Janusch | Assistant Vice Provost for International & Academic Programs in the Continuum College, University of WashingtonNews headlines, such as “US IEP sector experiences second year of declines,” and “With international student enrollment declining in the US, intensive English programs feel the pinch,” give an ominous…
General Education: The Disneyland of Higher Ed
Priscilla Hobbs | Associate Dean of General Education and Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern New Hampshire UniversityWhat do Mickey Mouse and university students have in common? They all enter the doors of a hallowed place for a whirlwind experience! While applying theme park studies to higher…