As colleges and universities find new ways to partner with each other to improve services and reduce costs, the idea of sharing an LMS is starting to gain traction. For instance, selecting and sharing a learning management system was key to an online teacher training and certification partnership established in 2017 between the schools of […]
A college or university's campus represents, physically, its environment for learning—its training ground for future thought leaders. Yet today, many U.S. institutions of higher education lack the appropriate resources and funding needed to develop new infrastructure or to upgrade existing buildings. To solve this problem, more are turning toward a public-private partnership (P3) model—a practice common […]
The University of Arizona wanted to rethink its course site design workflows to empower faculty to teach courses the way they want to teach them. Courses for fully online degrees are supported by the Office of Digital Learning while support for all other degrees is provided by the Office of Instruction and Assessment. Teams in […]
Attention to underserved students may be well spent on single mothers, a growing demographic on campus. The number of single mothers in college more than doubled between the 1999-2000 and 2011-12 academic years, to almost 2.1 million students—or 11 percent of all undergrads—as of 2012, according to a new report from the Institute for Women's […]
Cindy Boyer has made it her mission to help reinstated students succeed. A decade ago, she was the sole employee of a retention-focused student success office at Eastern Illinois University when a student who had been dismissed twice applied to return. Because of concern the student might fail once again, Boyer took him under her […]
New York is no stranger to the kind of damage that storms can do. In 2012, when Superstorm Sandy swept through, we knew we were fortunate that Adelphi University's campus was without power for days and not weeks. Still, after that experience, we knew we had a responsibility toward student safety and well being to […]
From guest lectures to orientations and from alumni events to weddings, special events constitute a key part of campus life. Colleges also leverage these activities to market the campus to students, families and the surrounding community. Event management systems have given schools greater control over everything from booking spaces to ordering food, linens and equipment. […]
More than half of students at Indiana University's seven campuses started the fall semester with at least one e-textbook loaded directly into their learning management system account—at about a quarter of the cost of a new print edition. And at the University of California, Davis, students in hundreds of courses use e-textbooks and take interactive, […]
One decision to be made in launching or expanding an e-textbook program is whether the office managing it should be on the business or the academic side. Here are two options. Campus store Since the retail manager negotiates the costs of digital course materials anyway, many institutions choose this administration model. Cornell University houses its […]
The headlines say it all. "Texas universities forced to trim their budgets, even with big state cuts averted." —Texas Tribune "University of Alaska budget cut by $8 million in legislative compromise" —Alaska Dispatch News Subhead: Case studies on how small ideas bloomed into noticeable savings "University of Missouri to cut 400 positions amid budget woes" —US […]
