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Nancy Mann Jackson

Most colleges offer an online version of the course catalog—but many aren’t taking advantage of the connectivity and smart technology available.
Academic Affairs

Course catalog management providers on challenges faced by colleges

Vendors answer this question: What aspects of academic course catalog management do you see colleges struggling with, particularly in terms of adopting current best practices or understanding the importance of this area?
Most colleges offer an online version of the course catalog—but many aren’t taking advantage of the connectivity and smart technology available.
Academic Affairs

4 ways to advance academic course catalogs

Most colleges offer an online version of the course catalog—but many aren’t taking advantage of the connectivity and smart technology available. Here are actions to advance the academic catalog.

SHARING IN SUCCESS—A village of faculty, administrators and staff in multiple departments is responsible for helping students to reach commencement day. Technology and cultural mindsets focused on sharing data play a big role in that aim. Photo: St. John Fisher College
Admin & Management

2 big ways campus offices are collaborating in the name of student success

Enterprise technology and a shifting culture promote information sharing about student success across campus
Impact on entry—The atrium of Capitol Federal Hall, opened in 2016 as The University of Kansas’ business school facility, features a video wall completed just in time for the ribbon-cutting.
Academic Affairs

AV classroom and academic building project pitfalls

How tech administrators recover when AV installations don’t go as planned
ANYWHERE INTERN—While many institutions are just beginning to dabble in setting up remote internships for students, University of Michigan is hiring a staffer whose central responsibility will be managing virtual opportunities.
Academic Affairs

Remote internships: Planning for and supporting students

Campus administrators who have coordinated successful virtual internships suggest these six steps for making them work.
Finance

College tuition: Past due

When Tyson Cooper began working in student accounts 10 years ago, debt collection on college campuses was viewed as purely business and “a necessary evil,” says the director of student […]
IT and AV

United we learn

As colleges and universities find new ways to partner with each other to improve services and reduce costs, the idea of sharing an LMS is starting to gain traction. For […]
Enrollment Management

Students promise to pay tuition

While the concept may seem unnecessary, a formal document—signed by each student—that states tuition payments are, in fact, expected is now required by a majority of colleges. In December 2016, […]
Financial Aid/Literacy

Colleges teach students first-class finance

Every semester, hundreds of freshmen at Champlain College in Vermont gather in a campus meeting room to play the “Game of Life.” It’s not the traditional board game. Instead, this […]
IT and AV

5 common steps to blockchain transcripts

Higher ed institution administrators interested in blockchain transcripts should consider these five common steps to making the transition. LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: College transcripts transformed Nancy Mann Jackson is an Alabama-based writer who […]
IT and AV

Beyond blockchain 

Besides exploring new ways to speed up the process and validity of providing transcripts, the registrar’s office has another movement afoot—including documented behavioral issues on those official academic documents. Where […]
IT and AV

College transcripts transformed

Every week at the University of Washington in Seattle, the registrar’s office staff comes across at least three fraudulent diplomas. Every month, they uncover about two fraudulent transcripts. “And these […]