Tech's big impact: How administrators keep their departments current as technology impacts offices across campus Reader input: How will evolving technology impact your role at your institution, or your department's work, this year? Results of UB Outlook 2019 complete reader surveys Outlook 2019 on institutional leadership Outlook 2019 on campus technology Outlook 2019 on college […]
IT security and customer services are among priorities for campus technology department leaders in 2019, according to UB's Outlook 2019 survey of campus technology administrators.
Campus finance leaders have concerns over the financial status quo. Here are results of UB's Outlook 2019 survey of college and university finance administrators.
Fourteen years ago, Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) directors Tommy Darwin and I published a chapter entitled, "Crisis as Opportunity: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Productivity in Higher Education." My argument here is that our thesis then may be more valid, important and relevant in 2019. Rather than thinking of higher education's problems only in terms of crisis, […]
The seemingly routine process of hiring faculty also presents campus leaders with ample opportunities for innovation. As higher ed institutions strive to take full advantage of the talents brought by incoming faculty, some variations to long-standing practices are taking root. Here are four emerging and continuing hiring trends worth following throughout 2019.
Troy University Chancellor Jack Hawkins, who led a combat platoon in Vietnam, returned to that country in 2002 to mark a milestone in his second career of higher education.
Community colleges have seen a drop in faculty employment applications at the same time those institutions take longer to make new hires, according to a 2017 survey released in October by software provider PowerSchool. Two-year institutions also face increased turnover among baby boom-generation administrators who are retiring in large numbers, says Sara Winchester, vice president […]