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Small Changes, Large Rewards: How Individualized Emails Increase Classroom Performance
Zoë Cohen | Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine Tucson, University of Arizona“No professor has ever cared about me.” This was a sentence in an email I received from a struggling student in my Physiology of the Immune System course, an upper-division…
How to Circumnavigate Common Roadblocks in Changing the Status Quo: Some Guidance from Experimental Psychology
Alexandra Logue | Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNYThere is much existing advice on what higher education leaders should do to change the status quo: Find a faculty champion, compromise, wait, etc. Here I provide some other specific…
Tailor Teachers Use Personality Style and Multiple Intelligences to Help Students Thrive
Vaughn Bicehouse | Assistant Professor, Slippery Rock University of PennsylvaniaThose who teach can and do. Students need the doers, they need effective educators who are not only experts in instruction, but also cultivators of student assessment and student learning.…
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…
Thirty Years After Allan Bloom’s Classic The Closing of the American Mind: The Liberal Arts and What It Means to be College Educated in 2018
Robert Hill | Professor Emeritus, Nova Southeastern University and Higher Education Consultant, Leadership & Planning SpecialistsIt has been thirty years since Allan Bloom wrote the controversial 1987 runaway bestseller The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls…
Overcoming Choice Paralysis: How Colleges Can Stand Out Over the Abundance of Options
Russell Winer | William Joyce Professor of Marketing at the Stern School of Business, New York UniversityThe higher education space is evolving into a mature market, where institutions are competing fiercely for student enrollments and finding new approaches to programming that meets the demands of their…
The Growing Discussion in Higher Education of Transfer and Curricular Control
Alexandra Logue | Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNYThe following is excerpted from Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at the City University of New York by Alexandra W. Logue (2017) and is reprinted by permission of Princeton…