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Mickey McDonald will be president of the Great Lakes College Association

In July, Mickey McDonald becomes president of the Great Lakes College Association, a consortium of 13 liberal arts schools in Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania....

Colleges are removing hurdles for students seeking counseling

For the seventh straight year, the rate of students reporting they may harm themselves—and, in turn, who seek counseling—grew, according to a new report...

Fame, documented: East Mississippi Community College football

The vast majority of community college athletic programs operate in relative obscurity, known mostly at the local level, if at all. The obvious exception is...

The University of Notre Dame constructs the O’Neill Hall, Corbett Family Hall and Duncan Student Center

Three new buildings added 800,000 square feet to Notre Dame’s football stadium. The Indiana university touts the four-year endeavor, completed in fall 2017, as...

Intersecting business with technology

The Johnson Cornell Tech MBA is conferred by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, but students don’t do all...

Higher ed sees a rise in specialized MBA activity

Editor's Note: This is part 2 of a 3-part series on b-school survival. Read Part 1. Applications to full-time, two-year MBA programs in the U.S....

How admission offices can navigate the damage of Michigan State-type scandals

The trial and conviction of former Michigan State University team physician Larry Nassar—and the subsequent resignation of long-time president Lou Anna Simon, among others—brought...

Inside Look: College museums and galleries

Higher ed museums continue to evolve, but tried-and-true practices drive current trends such as galleries with moveable walls, event spaces and AV technology.  “Colleges are...

Providers on what colleges could be doing to better use data for admissions and recruitment

In what ways do you see colleges falling short in utilizing data to make better admissions recruitment and acceptance decisions? What kinds of data...

The higher ed admissions data pitch

College admissions teams now go beyond zip codes and SAT scores to micromatch students who are most likely to apply to, enroll in and...

Higher ed responds to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

The finalized version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that President Trump signed into law poses less of a perceived threat to higher...

Additional opinions on the tax bill’s impact on higher ed

“The company will make an initial investment of $50 million in a new and ongoing education program specifically designed to cover tuition costs for...

Higher education HR: How it is run today and how it should be run in the future

Describe how higher education HR is run today and how it should be run in the future. Brad Saffer: It is very fragmented. There is...

Technology providers on protecting against unexpected vulnerabilities

Q: What can higher ed institutions do to best protect themselves from technical vulnerabilities that most people would not expect are vulnerabilities (for example,...

Why colleges should start expecting the unexpected

At the Internet of Things Village of the DEF CON security conference in 2016, hacking contests revealed nearly 50 vulnerabilities in 23 devices from...