Operations and Efficiency
Meeting heightened student demands with plummeting operational budgets in a competitive and commoditized environment is no easy task for higher education leaders. Long-term viability and success require operational effectiveness and efficiency that is somewhat foreign to post-secondary management.
The Expertise and Language Gap in Technology Procurement: Reducing Bloat and Improving Collaboration
James Wiley | Principal Analyst, EduventuresTechnology solutions and tools are more important to the effective management of a postsecondary institution today than ever before, and this trend is only going to pick up speed moving…
Making the Case for a University-Level Approach to Continuing Education
Peter Moroney | Interim Executive Director of Continuing Studies, University of British ColumbiaThe unique mission and value of the continuing and professional education (CE) enterprise in higher education can be both challenging to articulate and difficult to comprehend. This is especially true…
Leveraging Your Infrastructure: Effective Scaling in the Continuing Education Environment
Jeffrey S. Russell | Dean of Continuing Studies and Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning, University of Wisconsin-MadisonWorking adults are enrolling in higher education programs—both credit-bearing and non-credit—in greater numbers than ever before as the changing labor market demands employees to continue learning over the course of…
Guidelines to Consider in Decentralizing Distance Education
Albert Powell | Director of Learning Technologies, Colorado State UniversityThere’s enough variation in how universities are structured that there is no one answer to this question, but I will suggest some guidelines to consider when making a decision. For…
Driving Evidence-Based Reform: Applying the Problem of Remedial Math Across the Institution
Alexandra Logue | Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNYTraditional mathematics remediation is the largest single academic block to college graduation. A majority of new freshmen in the United States are assessed as needing remediation, most often in math,…
Changing of the Guard: Key Questions Surrounding a Presidential Transition
Neil Trotta | Dean of Graduate Studies, Fisher CollegeSo, you check your email on Monday morning as you typically do. What do you find? Your current president has announced they will be retiring at the end of the…
From Reports to Analysis: Big Data and Data Analytics in Small Institutions
Ravi Ravishanker | CIO, Wellesley CollegeBig Data, a highly subjective term, entered the Gartner Hype Cycle in 2013, and rather than moving through the various stages of that cycle, it fell off the cycle in…