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The case against proctoring

The need for proctoring derives from the perceived need to prevent “academic dishonesty”, aka cheating. The issues with proctoring include 1) the assumption of...

Business office efficiencies for better financial health

To confront today’s financial challenges, every college and university needs to create more operational efficiency. Some of these efficiencies start in the business office. For...

Harvard Yard: Extension school focused on working Professionals

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which...

Copy This

As long as there are assignments for college students to research and write, it’s likely there will be copiers and printers to help. Good news...

Digital Signatures for Speedier Approvals

Many of Pepperdine University’s administrative offices are located on a campus that sits on a steep, picturesque hilltop in the Southern California beach town...

Fiscal Management to the Rescue

No one disputes that the management of the seven units housed under the Drexel Business Services (DBS) department worked hard. The units generate $68...

New Home Base for Tech Help

Until the summer of 2013, the primary sources of technology support services at Fairfield University in Connecticut were the reference librarians and circulation staff...

Automated Transfer

The number of posted transfer credits for incoming students at Madison College in Wisconsin has risen steadily, from 2,814 in 2010 to 4,119 in...

Recruitment Goes Mobile

Historically, Western Michigan University’s 12 on-staff recruiters could visit as many as 40 or 50 high schools in a week and collect up to...

Orientation Station

For years, new student orientation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida required the creation of information packets that were labeled with stickers and contained...

Snail Mail 2.0

The remodel of a dining hall at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro was going to displace more than 5,000 student mailboxes. While thousands...

Loan Rangers

Streamlining the awarding and processing of student loans—Federal Perkins as well as institutional loans—began at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a simple question...

UBTech 2014: Innovation Everywhere

The setting was big, the company was good and the technology talk was buzzing at this year’s UBTech Conference, held June 16 to 18...

Higher education on trial

Higher education is in the dock in 2014. The questions are flying: Why does it cost so much? Why does it cost more each year? Why...

Higher ed HR extends radar by partnering with alumni

In the midst of shrinking budgets and staff, HR professionals at colleges and universities can take advantage of an often overlooked resource to help...