How can colleges and universities support students and families in balancing college cost pressures with making a proactive and informed college choice that creates lifelong value?
For generations, the American public has been told by venerable think tanks like Brookings, Pew and other educational research foundations and professional associations that American students lag significantly behind their global counterparts when it comes to math and science aptitude. This research suggests that over the past 20 years, the US has only marginally improved […]
Nada Anid, vice president for strategic communications and external affairs at the New York Institute of Technology, says women are a great, untapped resource for the science and technology industries—we just have to help them all realize it. Long an advocate for women pursuing education and career opportunities in STEM fields, Anid's efforts in this […]
It's time for more of corporate America to embrace what neurodiversity can bring to the workforce, and to experience how those who learn differently can benefit their organizations.
Public institutions are constantly attempting to re-define their core missions and at the same time, regain the public's trust. ¯As such, there are a number of forces that have made the Higher Education landscape increasingly competitive. Exacerbating these forces are shifts in the high school population demographics and a continued under investment in public higher […]
Meaningful partnerships between universities and corporations require meaningful collaborations to benefit students and drive successful outcomes. On the academic side, that means administrators and faculty have to listen closely, open our doors to collaborative creativity and be open-minded. Working together with our partners ensures that everyone—students, institutions and partners—can be successful. Here are a few […]
Americans learned from the timeless wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from fiction." One of the great challenges of Community, Technical, and County Colleges is to provide quality, affordable higher learning […]
Stephen Wilson, director of annual giving at Virginia State University, identifies donor prospects at no cost on LinkedIn. Using keyword searches based on profile information such as college, industry and job title, he finds potential matches and requests the connections. About half will respond and show interest in happenings at the university. "With 20,000 alumni […]
Editor's Note: This is part 3 of a 3-part series on b-school survival. Read Part 1 and Part 2. In a competitive landscape, business schools that aren't in the top tier of MBA rankings must find other ways to differentiate themselves. Many are highlighting student success data and employment outcomes to captivate MBA candidates whose biggest consideration is: […]
