Opportunities and Challenges
Making the decision to enroll in a course or program is a big step for non-traditional students, who often juggle numerous competing priorities with limited time and resources. Higher education offers unique and lucrative opportunities for this demographic, but institutions can create some specific challenges as well.
Five Things Everyone Should Know About Being a Community College President
Joianne Smith | President, Oakton Community CollegeBefore becoming the fourth president of Oakton Community College in July 2015, I thought I was prepared. I worked alongside Oakton’s previous president, Margaret Burke Lee, for years as vice…
Fate and Hormones Had Other Plans
Charlene Woodard | Masters Student, Saint Joseph’s CollegeI grew up in California. I had ambitions of going to college and majoring in business, but fate and hormones had other plans for me. I ran away from home…
Growing Faculty Diversity is a Shared Responsibility of Critical Importance
Freeman Hrabowski III | President, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyTasked with finding solutions to society’s greatest challenges, colleges and universities today are working to get a handle on the growing chasms and divisions that are deepening across American communities.…
The Mid-Term: Key Challenges for Public Higher Education Over the Next Four Years
Thomas Harnisch | Director of State Relations and Policy Analysis, American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)Over the next four years, a series of dynamics will challenge the ability of public colleges and universities to advance their missions of providing affordable college opportunities, improving student success,…
Medical Education’s Seismic Shift (and What It Means for Leadership)
Joyce De Leo | Consultant in Academic Medicine and Health Sciences Practice, Witt/KiefferMedical education is undergoing a significant and much-needed transformation. For over 100 years the standard medical school curriculum has comprised two years of lecture-based science classes followed by two years…
Reimagining College Rankings: What Information Do Students Truly Need?
Martha Ellis | Dean of Faculty at the Roueche Graduate Center, National American UniversityIn the United States we appear to be obsessed with rankings. Everything from sports teams to refrigerators are ranked. Rankings of higher education institutions are not new with college rating…
Going Beyond the Quick and Dirty: Crafting a Truly Representative Ratings System
Lester Lefton | President Emeritus, Kent State UniversityThoughtful evaluations of educational institutions are few and far between. The reasons are clear, but first and foremost is the fact that one type of evaluations does not fit all.…