At Samford University in Alabama, students are putting big data to use to boost engagement and revenue, says UB guest columnist Darin W. White, who is the executive director of Samford's Center for Sports Analytics.
Filippi, permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research, will discuss how colleges and universities can use blockchain to support large-scale decentralized collaboration and participatory decision-making.
Purdue brews Boiler Gold and Boiler Black to fund academic programs. Nicholls State's Colonels Retreat Lager may lead to wine and spices. And beer is a good luck charm at New Mexico State.
Future Shock columnist James E. Samels looks at a university whose core values—academic achievement, sportsmanship, fair play, and teamwork—form the adhesive that bonds intercollegiate baseball teammates and the momentum that propels them to new heights.
The number of international students hit an all-time high, but overall enrollment only grew by 0.05% and the number of first-timers declined for the third school year in a row.
Higher ed efforts such as improved academic advising and financial literacy lessons, plus an increase in scholarships and work-study programs, are making a difference in helping to ease the student loan crisis.
UB guest columnists Lori Garrett and Susan Reed say renovations to existing campus facilities will become more common than constructing new buildings and offer considerations for planning these projects.
