With a faculty perspective from Maryville University, this 30-minute Ed Talk will explore how academic thought leadership can benefit both individual career progression for faculty, including tenure and research visibility, and institutional enrollment goals, particularly in graduate education.
***Attendees will be able to safely download a Help a Reporter Out (HARO) worksheet to connect their faculty, students, and alumni to top publications and position them as thought leaders in their fields.
Perhaps this won't come as a surprise to some higher ed leaders: Affordability is not quite as important as weather for students in applying to or choosing a college.
Shortened academic terms—such as eight-week courses and winter break sessions—show varying rates of success at a group of colleges and universities examined in a new analysis.
Regardless of an institution's size, here's how higher ed leaders can shrink the size of campus by creating community pathways for first-generation students.
Time-strapped students juggling full-time jobs and other external obligations can accomplish more in half the time with this innovative academic scheduling approach, argues this dean of academic success.
North Carolina students and academic advisors now can use one online portal to access the college credit transfer guidelines of nearly 100 institutions. Other states are also improving their pathways to drive degree attainment.
In this 20-minute UB Ed Talk, a strategic consultant and former higher ed leader will discuss the complexities of integrating AI into academic settings, and how to ensure that new policies align with institutional values and minimize threats to academic integrity, while emphasizing fairness, transparency, and safety.
BYU-Pathways is set to launch its first three-year, 90-96 credit degree, and plenty more are in the pilot phase. A changing job market and higher ed landscape may prove it's not just for convenience's sake.
These two institutions are prioritizing experiential learning and initiatives that allow students to switch gears into other professional avenues as they continue to evolve as rapidly as the world around them.
Anthology's latest research paints a telling picture of where communication streams are mixed on what it takes to support students on their way to a degree.
Despite the well of opportunity present to higher education to offer employee development opportunities, company-higher education partnerships are losing ground to private providers.
Colleges racing to evolve their academic programs may be overlooking critical thinking, an essential skill students need to survive an ever-shifting marketplace driven by employer expectations and evolving tech trends.
ACE believes the kind of research and output coming out of today's postsecondary institutions deserves a richer structure that services institutions' missions more justly.
The Community College Research Center at Columbia University Teachers College has developed a new framework urging colleges and K12 districts to work together to ensure students take dual enrollment courses with vision, preparation and an eye toward postsecondary success.
Educators enrolled in a faculty development course experienced a resounding growth in their confidence as an effective educator, and students benefited as a result.
While student support services correlate to higher levels of student belonging, roughly 50% are unaware of them, according to Tyton Partners' "Listening to Learners" 2023 report.
A report by Momentive found that students believe AI renders their critical thinking skills obsolete, echoing similar alarms other professionals have sounded about the powerful technology.
After helping boost Johns Hopkins low-income, first-generation student persistence rates to 100%, the Kessler Scholars Collaborative is expanding its reach to 16 schools and 1,600 students, thanks in part to $10 million in new funding.
The report surveyed over 5,000 students and almost 2,500 college instructors and found that 53% of students are having trouble retaining class material, 55% of undergraduates are struggling to stay interested in their classes, and 66% of instructors find it challenging to keep students engaged.
To begin with, do away with the essay: They’re vague, hard to score and more than a third of students admit to making them up. After all, asks one academic integrity researcher, “What’s their incentive for telling the truth?”
Leveraging a cost-effective, technology-based approach to guide minority male students, Watermark and NCCCS led the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), and the results further proved how necessary it is to find innovative ways to reach students.
What may be most shocking to campus leaders is that three-quarters of students who have used ChatGPT acknowledge that utilizing the technology constitutes cheating.
When it comes to accelerating return on investment on price and outcomes, an abundance of career-oriented majors and thriving technical colleges are essentials for campus leaders.
About 30% of the schools qualify as minority-serving institutions and nearly half are rural-serving while the counties that RPUs serve have higher needs—such as low education, low employment, and persistent poverty—compared to counties served by other institutions.
More flexible learning environments are required to meet the needs of new learner populations who are also looking for alternative models of financial support.
Although U.S. News recently released its rankings for the Best Global Universities, this list from Research.com is unique in that its main focus is to measure the impact and contributions of researchers from higher ed institutions worldwide.
The gap exists in every U.S. state, beginning in elementary school and lasting through college graduation, according to new research conducted by the nonprofit public policy organization Brookings.
The U.S. higher education system may be the envy of the world, but not all voters agree that college is the best way to get ahead or that propaganda isn't a problem in the classroom.
