JD Solomon

What colleges have learned about distance education

The world of online learning has significantly changed the landscape of higher education over the last decade. In a survey by the Instructional Technology...

Small schools struggling to survive

Alice L. Brown doesn’t pull punches when discussing the problems of leadership at the small schools that constitute the Appalachian College Association. Some, she...

Small college aims for high-impact investments

With college students increasingly calling on schools to divest endowments from fossil fuels, Becker College in Massachusetts became the first institution to mandate that all...

Concealed carry laws proliferate on campus

A bill that would allow concealed handguns at Georgia public colleges and universities was awaiting action from Gov. Nathan Deal as this issue of UB...

Higher ed disruption underway — don’t get caught off-guard

In his book, Breakpoint: The Changing Marketplace for Higher Education (Johns Hopkins Press, 2015), Jon McGee says higher education is in the midst of an...

Creating the modern urban research university

Soon after becoming president of Georgia State University in 2009, Mark P. Becker set out to answer a question: How can you create a...

Oral Roberts tracks students’ every step

Oral Roberts University made headlines recently with news that all first-year students will be required to buy and wear a Fitbit, one of the...

Two college degrees for the price of one

An innovative articulation agreement between Anna Maria College and nearby Quinsigamond Community College (both in Massachusetts) will help fill critical public service jobs. Under the...

Building ‘very low walls’ leads to higher ed innovation

Innovation is a word with many connotations. For some, it suggests technological advancement, while for others it is discovering new approaches to old problems. For...

Cultivating innovation in higher ed

Michael R. Nelson says innovation is about much more than just a good idea. It requires finding new ways to combine existing ideas, products...

The true cost of higher education

Higher education is supposed to be a critical first step on the ladder that leads to economic mobility. But William Elliott and Melinda Lewis...

Campus Computing Project takes pulse of higher ed IT

Although it has been a boon to commercial services such as Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and others, cloud computing hasn’t completely caught on in higher...

Models of Excellence: Serving the whole college student

Effective student success initiatives begin long before that first day of classes and often continue beyond graduation. They contribute to a complete education experience, intended...

A new approach to college admissions

Over the years, college applications have become increasingly similar, with seemingly generic questions and check-boxes that often leave prospective students to wonder, “What does...

Challenging rape myths on campus

A study released in September by the Association of American Universities found that 12 percent of students across 27 universities had experienced sexual assault by...