Melissa Ezarik

Community college advising content, intensity impact engagement and success

Half of community college students report transferring as a goal but have never taken advantage of transfer advising, says a 2018 national report by the Center for Community...

2018 higher ed outlook

Gale-force changes at the federal level last year set the scene for uncertainty in 2018—and resulted in top-level higher ed leaders who are, by...

Models of Excellence: Continuous support unleashes student success

Making heads or tails of the many factors influencing student outcomes—while necessary—is daunting and difficult. For one university, a single wagging tail is making a...

Colleges incentivize graduation progress

†‹Encouraging students to take a full-time course load to target on-time graduation has become a popular focus area in higher ed. Cleveland State University takes...

Million-dollar gifts down in higher education

At least 1,831 gifts of $1 million or more—a total of $24.5 billion—were given to charity across eight international regions in 2014, with higher...

Higher Education Outlook 2016

As we ring in 2016, higher education leaders have much to look forward to as well as, of course, much work to be done. Exciting...

Kim E. Schatzel becomes president at Towson University

Kim E. Schatzel will begin her term as president of Towson University, one of the University System of Maryland’s 12 institutions, in late January. Currently...

Not your typical higher ed autism program

Programs for students on the autism spectrum are no longer a unique campus concept, but Austin Peay State University’s Full Spectrum Learning (FSL) initiative...

Campus groundbreakings: Convergent Media Center at Capital University

Under construction on the site of a circa-1905 gymnasium, the 34,430-square-foot, three-story Convergent Media Center at Capital University in Ohio will create a hub of...

Campus groundbreakings: New apartments at University of Indianapolis

Apartment building at the University of Indianapolis Up to 480 students will live in this $25 million, four-story apartment building. Located along the city’s increasingly...

Commencement, plan B

Getting a spring cancellation from a confirmed commencement speaker—particularly a high-profile one—is a planning team’s nightmare. Pepperdine University’s Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and...

Cluster hiring connects faculty across disciplines

Higher ed institutions are expanding interdisciplinary research activity by hiring groups of faculty from multiple disciplines at the same time. The idea, pioneered by...

Navigating the campus underground

Rumors about the nearly two miles of tunnels that lie beneath Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, often revolve around its location near Wright-Patterson...

Ground-level connections at the University of Regina

A brighter alternative to the pedestrian tunnel is a ground-level enclosed pedestrian street. It’s a concept that the University of Regina in Saskatchewan has...

No excuses: College admissions campaign with a twist

Admissions marketing pros have heard a wide variety of reasons why prospective students don’t believe they can go—or go back—to college. Park University in Missouri’s...