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Catching fire 2014: Campus survival strategies

In the epic Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss learns that to survive, it is not enough to know where to be—it is just as important...

Expanding course programming through streaming video conferencing

Students at Arkansas' Hendrix College attend a weekly theater class at Rollins College, nearly a thousand miles away in Florida, without leaving their campus....

How can small institutions be effective at capital planning?

Many small institutions wrestle with the annual assessment of how to manage routine capital projects. A backlog of deferred maintenance items can further complicate...

Coming to terms with tenure

The tenure process remains instrumental to universities in maintaining academic freedom and in soliciting the country’s top minds to forgo employment in industry and...

Being Served

Universities, research institutions, academics and scientists have increasingly been under the bright light scrutiny of the legal system. While not unprecedented for courts and...

Preparing for the BYOD invasion on your campus

Despite the hype surrounding the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, the reality is that BYOD has been around on college campuses for nearly a decade. Spurred...

Transforming the academic library

For decades, academic libraries have been distinguishing elements of campuses across the nation. Providing abundant resources along with quiet environments conducive to individual study,...

Partnering for success

Similar to their corporate counterparts, institutions of higher education have to operate in a fiscally responsible manner, which means managing budgets and achieving bottom...

Establishing leadership development through succession planning

As a frontline supervisor in Facilities Management, I often think about succession planning in our various organizations across the globe. I ask myself a...

Nurturing students, one touchdown at a time

Spencer Parker had a plan: Take his high school volleyball stardom to college, spend a couple of years at a smaller school to develop...

8 ways to deter and detect campus fraud

What do a private liberal arts college, a public community college and a high-ranking national university all have in common? Each recently reported six-figure...

5 ways colleges are making digital deliveries

Preparing to take a college-level course once meant simply heading to the campus bookstore and purchasing the textbook. Today, preparing for a course may...

Online degree program provides opportunities for special needs students at Sage

An increasing number of students with special needs now attend four-year universities, with admissions officers reporting a fivefold increase in their applications over the...