The leadership of Dickinson College understands the importance of predictive analytics to help shape their class. But they also know that models can get stale, and will improve only when they are transparent and institutional departments collaborate during the model building and enrollment process.  In this web seminar, the vice president for enrollment, marketing and […]

While students have a variety of options when it comes to paying for college, making unwise financial decisions can lead to negative consequences for the student as well as the institution. Overborrowing, poor planning and budgeting, and misunderstanding financial aid can create seemingly insurmountable debt that can affect academic performance, push students to leave school […]

This month we begin a trilogy of best value proposition case studies providing an inside look at how several institutions have developed more relevant ways of measuring value-added outcomes, quality of learning experience, and return on tuition investment.  Typically, the college selection process for high school students is as routine as the senior prom, where students and parents eyeball traditional college […]

Good money habits start early. The power of interest means those who start saving, investing and paying off their interest rates young have an advantage over those who wait. As students make the transition from college to a full-time career, they face numerous important financial decisions that will impact their lives for years to come. […]

Below is a closer look at how two universities, Butler University in Indiana and the University of Florida, are enhancing learning videos for their online courses. Butler University: Adding quizzes to video Technology used: Panopto video platform for recording lectures Interactive boosts: Voiceover can be added to PowerPoint slides. When the instructor finds a place in the […]

Steven Combs is taking on the role of chancellor at Ivy Tech Community College’s Columbus campus in Indiana as part of a restructuring of campus-level leadership across the system. The job of campus president, a position which Combs currently holds, will be phased out, and the college’s Columbus and southeast regions will no longer report […]

Two years ago, the human resources department at the University of Santa Monica was predominantly paper-based. Since then, the school has implemented an HR information system along with a new management platform called Employee Self-Onboarding by BambooHR. “The onboarding function absolutely changed my life,” says Elisa Perry, HR director at the school. The new platform […]

Louisiana is the first state in the nation to formally prohibit all public higher ed institutions from asking applicants about their criminal history. The law to “ban the box” asking about criminal history was passed in June with strong bipartisan support, as the state has the highest incarceration rate in the nation, according to the […]