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.
Communication and Respect: Establishing an Environment for Innovation to Flourish
Gregory Fowler | Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer for COCE, Southern New Hampshire UniversityGiven our emphasis on using innovation and student-centered approaches, it is no surprise that SNHU is a place where there is always a great deal happening. Our continued commitment to…
Process Automation as a Strategic Differentiator: How Efficiency Impacts the Experience
Mohan Mailvaganam | Director of Digital Process Automation, Xerox CanadaWhen college and university administrators think about investments that make a positive impact on the student experience, they’re often drawn towards major capital investments in campus upgrades and amenities like…
Realigning Not Closing: A Broader View on How to Maintain Access in Tough Times
Monty Sullivan | President, Louisiana Community and Technical College SystemManaging challenging economic circumstances has become the status quo for all higher education institutions across the United States, though in some states the situation is tougher than in others. In…
Seven Lessons Other Struggling Colleges Can Learn from the Struggle at Sweet Briar
Alice Brown | Principal, AWB and AssociatesThe second anniversary of the announcement that Sweet Briar College would close was March 3, 2017. Having spent most of 2015 developing a report for a major foundation about the…
Five Self-Imposed Roadblocks to Using Data
Jim Hundrieser | Associate Managing Principal, Association of Governing Boards Institutional StrategiesImagine a diagram filled with thousands of lines intersecting at seventeen random points. Each of those intersections represents completion hurdles for a subset of students. Every one of these junctions…
Overcoming Siloes to Use Data More Strategically
Param Bedi | Vice President for Library and Information Technology, Bucknell UniversityLeveraging data to drive institutional change at every level—strategic, programmatic, student-facing and everything in-between—is becoming increasingly common practice among leading colleges and universities, and the ability to effect this kind…
Big Data: Transcending Disciplines in Higher Education
Anteneh Ayanso | Director of the Centre for Business Analytics in the Goodman School of Business, Brock UniversityFor higher education to be truly successful, institutions need to consider both what students want, and what society is going to need from them once they leave—there needs to be…