When Centenary College was granted university status in May, the news was celebrated by students, faculty, alumni and staff. For the marketing and student recruitment team, the renaming was an opportunity to build awareness of the distinctive experience our institution offers career-oriented students. And one of the first places we needed to make the Centenary […]

As a conservative political strategy, "starving the beast" means to deprive an entity of funding to force it to reduce spending. Steve Mims' new film, "Starving the Beast," documents a political and philosophical shift that seeks to reframe public higher education—not as a public good for society, but as a "value proposition" to be borne by […]

When Teri McIntyre was a University of Wisconsin undergrad in the early '90s, she volunteered to call alumni to ask for college fund donations and—believe it or not—she liked making those calls. A university development officer noticed and offered McIntyre a job after graduation. "I didn't know if I could spend my whole life in […]

When Lisa Severy became a career counselor in the mid-'90s, the dominant philosophy in serving students was this: "I'll help you catch your first fish." Now the idea has evolved to: "I want to teach you to catch fish so you'll be able to do this forever." The process involves meeting students' needs—and providing what […]