Institutions should invest in a concierge-like experience for working learners with the same urgency, creativity, and institutional commitment they devote to athletics.
The institutions that will thrive over the next decade won't necessarily be the ones with the biggest international recruitment budgets. They'll be the ones that build trusted global networks.
Institutions should invest in a concierge-like experience for working learners with the same urgency, creativity, and institutional commitment they devote to athletics.
Economic equilibrium is a sustainable state in which revenues support the academic mission while preserving the capacity to respond to challenges and pursue opportunities.
What tends to go unexamined is how campuses themselves communicate day to day, and what that teaches students about how information is supposed to move.
We should treat career readiness the same way we address degree completion; with the same precision, sequence, and accountability as the curriculum itself.
The University of Vermont is offering discounts to New England students next fall in an effort to boost enrollment. Meanwhile Middlebury College is expanding its free tuition offers.
The rescissions appear to target pots of funding that have the weakest constituencies on Capitol Hill, including $25 million of $52 million appropriated for migrant students.
Last spring, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his first take-home midterm. He immediately suspected “massive cheating,” because the grade distribution was, in his words, “absurd.”