In 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…
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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…
The 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…
No matter what institution you’re talking about, faculty play a massive role in the delivery of a world-class student experience. However, with so many priorities competing for their time—and so…
Collaborating to Meet an Emerging Need: The MA Teaching in STEM Success Story
Carolyn Callaghan | Executive Director of Educational Outreach, Western Carolina University Christine Anne RoyceAs many professional and continuing education units know, program development and success depends upon the unique blend of faculty champions, regional partnerships, process know-how and lots of communication, creativity and…
Employee engagement currently is an important topic in the for-profit business world for two primary reasons. One is that organizations that have been effective in developing employees who are engaged—“emotionally…
Affirming Online Faculty
Alexis Morton | Program Manager of Faculty Training and Development in the College of Online and Continuing Education, Southern New Hampshire University“I want to be part of your mission.” These are quite possibly the eight best words I’ve heard in a long time. Arguably, they are the most coveted words in…
I teach entirely online at a university, The University of Texas at Arlington, which is in the process of expanding online learning opportunities for students, including non-traditional, diverse learners. One…
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,…
Online academic programs are proving to be effective and demand for them is growing. Yet many established institutions have been slow to fully embrace online education. It takes time and money…
Intense and Illuminating: My Adventure Teaching Humanities 101
Karen Southall Watts | Contract Trainer, Pacific Community Resources Self-Employment ProgramTwo years ago, I wrote an article called We Are the Humanities as part of my research and personal preparation for launching the first ever online Humanities 101 course at…
Here’s a hypothetical: Let’s say Jane, a student I’ve never met, comes into my office, wanting to return to college after many years. When I pull up her transcripts, I’m…
Big Data and Big Risks: Protecting Higher Education from Cyberattack
Teju Herath | Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Goodman School of Business, Brock UniversityColleges and universities today are collecting and storing huge amounts of data. Leading institutions are also analyzing and leveraging data for all kinds of different purposes, and the number of…
Traditionally, higher education institutions have been anecdotal and traditional enterprises. Steeped in history, most institutions mirror the management practices and guidelines established over hundreds of years, but in today’s changing…
Faculty Buyout Packages: An Emerging Higher Ed Trend? (Part 2)
Robert Hill | Professor Emeritus, Nova Southeastern University and Higher Education Consultant, Leadership & Planning SpecialistsThere are numerous advantages to having veteran faculty on campus, including experience, knowledge and continuity. On paper, though, it passes the “smell test” for a college in anticipation of steep…
What do Penn State University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of North Dakota, the University of Wisconsin system, and the University of Missouri all have in common besides being…
The Role of Proactive Advising in Student Success and Retention
Sue Ohrablo | Adjunct Professor, Valencia CollegeOver the past few years, institutions have been experiencing declining enrollment and are looking to strategically attract and retain more students. In order to do so, institutions have developed programs…
Recently, someone asked me what I perceived the role of an academic advisor to be. It has taken years of practice and refinement in order to come up with a…
Lessons from Business School: How to Stay Competitive in Today’s Marketplace
Russell Winer | William Joyce Professor of Marketing at the Stern School of Business, New York UniversityToday’s higher education market is competitive, crowded and evolving. The range of competition has grown enormously, from other institutions within a 10-mile radius to every college and university in the…
In the United States we sometimes pick our presidents from unusual backgrounds. This holds true for filling vacancies in the White House as well as on a campus. Numerous recent…
Five Ways for Administration and Faculty to Support Student Success
Angela Walmsley | Associate Professor of Mathematics, Concordia University WisconsinStudents must be responsible for their own learning. They must put forth the time and effort in order to be as successful as possible. The famous phrase comes to mind:…
In this brief essay, Learning Sciences Professor Daniel Hickey of Indiana University speculates about what might become of alternative and complementary credentials by 2025. Dr. Hickey has been studying and…
Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture
David Collis | Professor of Business Administration, Harvard UniversityCorporations across the globe have been focused on the question of innovation for decades and longer. The desire to become leaner, better and more efficient has driven innovative leaders for…
The term “helicopter professor” has begun to emerge in various higher education media lately. I believe the term started to become popular approximately one year ago, when Mr. Berlin Fang,…
The Need For More “Trim Tab Groups” In Higher Education
Daniel Christian | Chief Learning Architect, Learning from the Living [Class] RoomI don’t remember exactly where I was or when it was that I first read about the explanation for the term “Trim Tab Group,” but the concept instantly resonated with…
In each tailored corporate training interaction we are seeking one outcome: success. The challenge arises when we are fully cognizant that there is another party that is also seeking that…
The Secret Sauce of Engagement: Creating Successful Online Programs
Allison Rossett | Professor Emerita of Educational Technology, San Diego State UniversityColleges and universities across the world have started to look to online courses and programs as a mechanism to create greater access to offerings for prospective students, and the modality…
Do you want to offer high-quality, engaging, and sophisticated courses in your online and distance learning programs? Do you want to avoid offering courses that are highly commoditized and don’t…
Five Critical Elements to Developing Effective Educational Programs for Working Adults
Elizabeth Matthews | Assistant Professor in the Center for Worker Education, City College of New YorkWorking adults continue to encompass a significant share of the college student demographic. Working students often juggle family and personal responsibilities while attaining higher education. Fortunately, many colleges and universities…