Today's universities are challenged with pretty intense competition for the best and brightest students, while retaining and nurturing those students throughout their college careers. It's important to make sure students are the right fit from the start, while easing their transition to college and providing as much support as possible–a pretty tall order under any […]
Watching snow flurries on Christmas Eve and reflecting on the Year 2018, what comes to mind is the demographic and economic tsunami facing American Higher Education. Ask investment analysts about the state of small Christian colleges and universities and you likely get a bleak outlook. Just consider the spate of small Christian college closures over […]
As more veterans look to continue their education after service to our nation, higher ed must help veterans re-enter civilian life, adapt to the academic environment, and achieve the goal of earning a higher education.
The enormous cost of medical school in the United States has made medical education primarily attainable by students from privileged backgrounds, whose ethnic composition is majority white.
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.
Mental health care at community colleges has in the past been hampered by a lack of funding and the fact that many older students live off campus. Recently, community colleges have been developing new mental health programs in an effort to raise awareness and boost overall student success, says Martha Parham, senior vice president of […]
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.
