Allegations of sex abuse, once hidden from public view at universities, are seeing the light of day at record levels.
That attention leads to inevitable...
Today's students are easily distracted in the classroom because of their need for stimulation. This need developed at an exponential rate during their...
Higher education institutions consistently face pressure to satisfy the computing, storage and network requirements of their campus power users, the research scientists. A variety...
From the earliest days of the modern university, cities have been important partners for institutions of higher learning—largely because universities can bring scholars and...
When Barry University officials discovered their network had become infected with malware that was making callbacks to a command center in Russia in 2013,...
Anyone who has worked in higher education knows that harnessing and harmonizing many disparate voices representing different academic disciplines and administrative perspectives can be...
The University of Michigan’s very decentralized campus means it has multiple IT departments, numerous technologies and plenty of cloud applications. “We basically use everything...
“Security is always a top concern. Other highly regulated industries—such as financial services, insurance and healthcare—have mandatory government regulations to guide them, but it...
Institutions collect a wealth of data regarding admissions, financial aid and student success factors. All of these data provide a holistic view of prospective...
The variety of challenges facing enrollment leaders are well documented: changing demographics, increased competition for students, scarce outcome data— and the list goes on....
Maintaining customer service and compliance goals often creates conflicts at higher education institutions, because of the resources needed to attain success. While laws, regulations...
Many institutions are challenged to raise graduation rates and increase service to their students, but what is often overlooked is the important role of...