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Higher ed trend watch

Lori Fulton, director of institutional effectiveness, Pacific Northwest University “In the beginning, I was focused on developing systems and processes to capture and collect data...

Supporting higher ed students from admission through completion

Admissions, enrollment, marketing, retention and financial aid administrators surveyed generally have a sunny outlook about the student population in 2018—with 62 percent anticipating an...

New higher ed president of the University of New Mexico

Garnett Stokes will be the next president of The University of New Mexico. She was one of the last remaining leaders employed at University of...

2018 digital marketing trends for colleges to look out for

What deep currents will shape this new year for higher ed digital marketers and communicators? I’ve tried to answer this question every January for...

Capital projects and college campus impressions as priorities

Higher ed leaders love an opportunity to tout the beauty of their campuses, and continuous construction gives them a lot to talk about. One-third of...

Boise State University builds Honors College and Sawtooth Hall

A new 656-bed, five-story building offering Wi-Fi access and HD cable now stands near the center of Boise State’s campus in Idaho. The 236,000-square-foot facility...

California colleges see value in sharing … a campus

Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California, needs more space. Students learn in makeshift classrooms at a local medical center and lack a campus to...

Teaching college students about copyright law: An experiment with impact

In the fall of 2015, Muhlenberg College President John Williams asked if I would teach a copyright law course to interested undergraduate students. While...

Higher ed finance: Getting money in, controlling money out

While relying less on student tuition and fees is the ideal situation for many higher ed institutions, it’s not surprising that finance administrators anticipate tuition revenue...

When any debt (including college debt) is too much

There’s no question that recent graduates are leaving college with more student loan debt. More students are taking out loans and they’re borrowing larger...

Higher ed leadership: Intensified focus on cost control and student success

“No margin, no mission!” is how one respondent to UB’s 2018 Outlook survey of campus leaders described the high stakes involved in raising more...

Struggling to connect with college students on IT security

The majority of college students are not aware of any cybersecurity breaches at their institutions despite most IT departments on campuses reporting such incidents,...

Leveraging tech for learning and college administration

An increase in technology spending is the gift that about 4 in 10 campus technology administrators are unwrapping to start the new year. Sixteen percent...

Transforming a dinosaur on campus

Remember the language lab? That room outfitted with rows of massive carrels, microphones, recorders, and an elevated teacher console? Its usefulness has been contested...

Power Wellness U

Our discovery of new pathways to healthy living and learning begins in Methuen, Massachusetts, a city with a proud heritage in industrial manufacturing. Today,...