Dual enrollment pathways provided unique opportunities to extend high-quality learning access to underserved student populations. And despite these classes being remote throughout the pandemic, they’ve opened education and career pathways…
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July Is Coming: Medical Education and Physician Trainee Turnover in 2020
Sarah Diekman | Resident Physician and Student in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, John Hopkins UniversityWorldwide, physicians are at the center of the fight against COVID-19. Throughout the United States, academic medical professionals are addressing staffing and supply shortages in the midst of this pandemic.…
If you’re not communicating with students on mobile, you’re probably not communicating with students at all. That’s the reality of today’s higher ed campus. Students are tied to their mobile…
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…
Emerging from the high school reform attempts within communities were the first early/middle college high schools. The idea of a high school located on a college campus evolved (Cullen, 1988;…
How American Universities Could Benefit from Greater Outreach to the Middle East
David Thompson | Communications Outreach Director for Veterans’ Advocates, Washington and Lee UniversityGiven the rhetoric around the recent presidential election, many students and parents from other countries are hesitant to send their high school graduates to American universities. Particularly, Middle Eastern students…
No doubt about it: Law school is challenging. With the scare stories of 1L, 1L of a Ride, and similar books, a lot of law students work themselves into a…
Transitioning to School: What I Wish I Knew
David Thompson | Communications Outreach Director for Veterans’ Advocates, Washington and Lee UniversityThere were a lot of things that I got wrong or could have done better when I moved from Army Special Operations to law school. I was completely unprepared for…
It’s a truth, almost universally acknowledged, that a college education arms individuals with the knowledge and credentials to enter highly competitive and economically lucrative fields. Historical figures like Thomas Jefferson and…
Maximizing Your Education Investment When You Return to the Real World
Nikki Karakostas | Master’s Student, George Washington UniversityThe higher education space has undergone a number of significant transformations over the past centuries that have dramatically increased the societal expectation of higher education. The U.S. financial crisis of…
I was a non-traditional student in so many different ways. A military veteran, I had come to the decision of obtaining a degree only after more than a decade in…
Beyond Dodgeball: Tailoring Extracurricular Opportunities for Adults
Jo Emanuelson | Student, Christopher Newport UniversityMy college has somewhere around 200 organizations on campus for just under 5000 students. Between Greek organizations, student-run clubs, honor societies and athletics, there’s something for everyone. Part of orientation…
I often feel like I’m a player in the popular board game, “Life.” I’m at that really fun part where you spin to find out what your life is going…
ROI for Adult Learners: Maximizing Higher Ed’s Non-Monetary Value
Tennis Lilly | Master’s Student, Lesley UniversityMany of the contributors to this special issue will point out the economic benefits and wider employment opportunities that a college education brings. Adult learners reap the benefit of higher…
The following interview is with David Godoy, winner of the 2014 Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship. Godoy is a student in Salt Lake Community College’s manufacturing engineering program and expects to…
Continuing Education for Professional Growth: A Student’s Story
Nikki Karakostas | Master’s Student, George Washington UniversityThe following interview is with Nikki Karakostas, winner of the 2014 Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship. Karakostas is a student at the George Washington University’s (GWU) Law Firm Management program and…
Seeing my byline, you might wonder what value might lie in a job-hunting article written by someone still in graduate school. As someone who has reinvented herself from a construction…
How to Become the University of Choice for Veteran Students
Nicholas Lanier | President of SVA Saint Leo Chapter, Saint Leo UniversityAs the face of academia changes with the increase of student veterans returning to school, institutions face a challenge that was last addressed after World War II. How can an…
This trailer highlights some of the interesting ideas and innovative insights shared by all three speakers at The EvoLLLution Symposium on Higher Education and the Workforce, hosted at Stanford University.…
The Maker Movement and Graduate Employability
Ashley Sanders | Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State UniversityThe following interview is with Ashley Sanders, a doctoral candidate in history at Michigan State University and blogger with GradHacker. Sanders is passionate about the employability of graduate students in…
These days, now that the stresses of thesis writing, paper marking and final examinations are finished, I find myself looking back on my university experiences. It has almost been a…
Five Ways to Create Success for Veterans in Higher Education (Part 2)
Nathan Sable | Student, The George Washington UniversityIn the first installment of this two-part series, Nathan Sable argued that the biggest challenge veteran students face is regaining their sense of service and community. From there, he outlined…
As a non-traditional student attending a traditional four-year university as a student veteran, my personal journey through academic life has revealed particular issues all student veterans likely face and must…
Five Ways to Create Success for Veterans in Higher Education (Part 1)
Nathan Sable | Student, The George Washington UniversityWhen veterans leave the military, the two things they quickly find they have lost is their sense of service and their community. These two integral aspects — defining what it…
The following interview is with Katie Smith, emergency management associate at IEM. Smith is a graduate of Penn State’s Master’s of Professional Studies in Homeland Security degree program, an online…
Graduate Education Not Worth the Price of Admission … But It Can Be
Ashley Sanders | Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State UniversityThe following interview is with Ashley Sanders, a doctoral candidate in history at Michigan State University. Sanders blogs with Gradhacker and has written extensively on the topic of financial literacy…
The following interview is with Nathan Sable, a non-traditional student at George Washington University. Sable is a Navy veteran who was deployed four times during his career. After leaving the…
Clubbing: A Non-Traditional Student’s Pathway to the True Higher Education Experience
Jo Emanuelson | Student, Christopher Newport UniversityI am a non-traditional student and I hate getting involved at school. It’s a huge inconvenience for me. I have to drive all the way to campus, away from my…
In the past few years, the purpose of higher education has typically been defined by its economic and workforce outcomes. It’s seen as the best way to produce leaders, critical…
The Importance of Reputation and Name Recognition
Rajeeth Dev Anand | President of the International Students Association, Michigan State UniversityThe following interview is with Rajeeth Dev Anand, president of the International Student Association at Michigan State University. The higher education marketplace in the United States alone is extremely saturated…