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Reducing anxiety with enhanced higher ed performance reviews

Annual performance reviews are shunned for good reason. Your boss tells you everything you did right—but mostly wrong—over the past year, subjectively rates your...

Fundraising providers on challenges to setting up mobile giving

What are the biggest roadblocks institutions face when it comes to adding/enhancing mobile donation options? “Nothing is more frustrating than getting to the end of...

Enrollment encouragement: Oregon State University’s Beaver Box o’ Swag

Aim: To boost enrollment of the top 1 percent of high school students who qualify for Oregon State’s Presidential Scholarship, admissions officers treat academic...

Colleges should always woo would-be students

On the road from acceptance to enrollment, would-be students stray, often stepping off the intended path. However, led by admissions offices, higher ed institutions...

Want to thrive in higher ed? Practice “radical cooperation”

In a higher education landscape marked by a shrinking student population and increasing uncertainty, institutional longevity—if not short-term survival—is top of mind for most....

Smartphones in the classroom

University and college professors face new and exciting challenges today due to technological advances in smartphones and smartwatches and the implanted devices that are...

Chicagoland’s Career University of Choice

Institutional resiliency is a daunting challenge for smaller, tuition-dependent, change-resistant institutions. Indeed, the most vulnerable of these fragile colleges and universities may soon face...

New president of Utah Valley University

Astrid Tuminez will leave Microsoft to hold her first executive-level higher ed leadership position when she becomes president of Utah Valley University, effective this...

Groundbreakings: Boise State University, University of Oregon, Boston University

Micron Center for Materials Research Boise State University (Idaho) Students and faculty will have access to 40 research laboratories and other spaces in this new science...

Challenges in managing huddle rooms

As huddle rooms within academic buildings grow in popularity, what challenges—perhaps unexpected ones—tend to crop up for administrators and professors?  “There are several challenges that...

Challenges in using data to evaluate faculty

Providers were asked: How well are colleges using data to measure faculty performance, and what related areas need the most improvements? “Colleges will typically show...

Highly qualified women in higher ed line up to lead

Academia continues to evolve for women aspiring to move into leadership positions. Once a career environment that offered few opportunities and minimal support for...

Security providers on highly visible campus security measures

What role does visible security technology play in deterring campus crime and giving students, prospective students/families, and others peace of mind? “A popular argument against...

Higher ed management council asks ‘What’s going on in your area that we should know about?’

When it comes to risk management, a key fear is being blindsided by exposure we didn’t even know we had. At Meredith College, we...

Colleges serve up culinary medicine courses

More than 40 medical schools have added culinary medicine programs to the menu to help students better understand how to combat obesity, diabetes and...