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Higher ed employee travel: A cat and mouse game

Roughly six years ago, David Lewis served on a team that was designing policies for a new college in the Middle East. As president...

Keeping an eye on travel costs

Snow College’s latest travel policy included new, logical restrictions. For example: Employees would be reimbursed only for for hotel stays on days that matched...

Emphasizing campus cybersecurity is crucial

Joe Adams, Interim President and CEO and Vice President of Research and Cyber Security, Merit Network The Michigan Cyber Range is a virtual facility where people...

Help higher ed employees make ends meet

What types of people at your school are not saving for retirement? Young employees? Low-income earners? Maybe single parents with children? Several years ago, Linda...

Challenges in social media measurement

Most institutions think they measure the impact and the performance of social media, but only a few have shown they are ready to invest...

College kids and prescription drugs

The U.S. makes up 5 percent of the world’s population, yet it consumes 75 percent of the world’s prescription drugs. Additionally, 52 million people...

Navigating the evolving rights of transgender college students

College and university administrators, already aware of their obligations to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, (“Title IX”), are...

Why tuition-free community college is a bad idea

In 2015, many college-bound Americans will have some public higher learning or post-secondary education experience at the 1,132 community, technical, municipal, and county colleges...

Streamlining the International Payment Process

The U.S. is home to the largest population of international students in the world. This student demographic enriches educational institutions, but also adds increased...

Looking abroad? Challenges and considerations for higher education institutions

American colleges and universities are becoming far more internationally focused. The rise in the number of foreign students on U.S. campuses is well-documented, with...

Higher ed’s one-on-one admissions approach

There was a time when colleges and universities could put their best marketing message out to the masses, and wait for students to respond...

Mobility solutions are transforming the way we learn, work and study

Nicole Nesrsta, Vertical Solutions Marketing Manager, Education, Citrix How are physical learning spaces expected to change in the near future? Computer labs filled with rows of computers...

It’s not all digital in college branding

Few of us could imagine where we would be in our institutional branding efforts without the internet and its related marketing and public relations...

BYOD boundaries on campus

When students at the University of Georgia returned from winter break five years ago, they inundated the campus computer network with a wave of...

Avoiding facilities flubs in higher ed

Who would ever think that replacing simple lightbulbs could end up costing a university hundreds of thousands of dollars? Or that a piece of equipment...