Colleges and universities with the most Twitter activity are missing out on engaging prospective students via the platform, according to new research from Brandwatch, a social media monitoring and analytics firm. The analysis used a Thomson Reuters list of the top 10 U.S. university mentions on Twitter from January 31 through March 31. The big […]
A Beginner's Guide to World Domination Alfred University (N.Y.) Taught to honors program undergrads by Associate Professor of Psychology Danielle Gagne and Associate Professor of Astronomy David DeGraff, who jointly came up with the idea of a class about supervillains when discussing re-running a class called "The Science and Psychology of Superheroes" "The comics and […]
Old meets new at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, a 40,000-square-foot facility that was formerly known as the 100-year-old Johnson Hall at Occidental College (Oxy) in Los Angeles. CHALLENGE: Politics, foreign languages and other global affairs-related majors are some of the Oxy's most popular fields of study, but there hadn't been a centralized location […]
One million in 400 days. That's the amount the Billiken Angels Network, an angel investment group out of Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business, raised to help local start-ups. The group invests in firms of any industry and size that show promise and make an impact on the region and its economy. The […]
On April 22, College Republican National Committee chair Alex Smith appeared on a Fox News program to launch the #MyLiberalCampus hashtag campaign. In the same segment, an Eastern Connecticut State University student shared an audio recording of his creative writing professor saying that a Republican Senate win in 2014 would result in college closures, and […]
The University of Akron in Ohio has selected Scott L. Scarborough, now provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at The University of Toledo, as its next president. At UT, he directed the development of a new strategic plan, "Imagine 2017," and organized a system of "portal colleges" designed to meet the needs of […]
Center for Communications and Creative Media (CCM) Champlain College (Vt.) Planned occupancy: August 2015 Design: ColinLindberg Architects (Burlington, Vt.) The $24.5 million, 75,000-square-foot project is a renovation and expansion of the Hauke Center and Alumni Auditorium. The facility will be the new academic home for CCM programs and allow all business faculty and programs to […]
A single transformational gift can spark unprecedented momentum and result in record-shattering donations to a college or university—as officials at Baylor University in Texas know well. In early 2012, alumnus Drayton McLane Jr. and his family kicked off donor support for an ambitious $260 million on-campus football stadium. At the time it was the largest […]
Michigan legislators have introduced a plan that would allow in-state college-bound students to attend college for free and then, as graduates, pay a percentage of their income back. Known as a "pay it forward" model, the money paid back would go into a special fund to help other students attend college using the same plan. […]
An official University of Kentucky hashtag, #seeblue grew out of a student recruitment campaign tagline launched in 2006. The campaign, like a first-place blue ribbon, "celebrates our athletic successes and elevates our academic achievements," says Marketing Specialist Katy Bennett, who manages social media efforts for enrollment management at UK. "Eight years later, 'see blue' is […]
