Jesuit education in America has a distinguished history that is deeply rooted in faith and intellectual rigor. Today, according to the Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities, the 28 American Jesuit institutions educate their students within the Ignatian heritage of Jesuit education "in a way that seeks God in all things, promotes discernment, and engages […]
Garnett Stokes will be the next president of The University of New Mexico. She was one of the last remaining leaders employed at University of Missouri since before the 2015 protests. At Mizzou, she served as provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. Stokes created the Office for Civil Rights and Title IX during her tenure […]
For nearly a decade, video analytics has been considered the next big thing in campus security. But the surveillance technology, also known as video content analysis, is just beginning to catch the eye of higher ed security administrators. Certainly these systems—where software provides automatic monitoring of video feeds and triggers alerts for follow-up by security […]
The strategic plans of every administrator and department must work collectively toward the overall goals of a college or university. It’s a bit like playing dominoes where each tile connects to another but always links back to the first tile played. Sounds simple but it’s not a common practice at higher education institutions. Act like […]
Nationwide, the scope of faculty and staff housing programs varies as much as campus locations do. Options for colleges and universities can range from renting out on-campus condos or off-campus single-family homes to providing supplemental home loan assistance. Here’s a sampling of faculty housing programs. Link to main story: Welcoming home college faculty Amherst College […]
Working on a campus near the coast with sunny, 70-degree weather year-round is an appealing prospect to many people. It's also why real estate in Southern California is among the most expensive in the nation—placing housing there out of the reach for academics seeking a first or new teaching opportunity. This reality motivated the University […]
This month we begin a trilogy of best value proposition case studies providing an inside look at how several institutions have developed more relevant ways of measuring value-added outcomes, quality of learning experience, and return on tuition investment. Typically, the college selection process for high school students is as routine as the senior prom, where students and parents eyeball traditional college […]
The student debt crisis—despite dire warnings from the media—is not as bad as it is portrayed, researchers Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos say. In their book Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt (Princeton University Press, 2016), the authors say the popular myth of looming crisis has obscured the real problems facing student […]
Andrew Lippman is one of the foremost experts on viral communication and digital life. As a founder of MIT’s Media Lab, Lippman had been studying this field long before many of us ever heard of the internet. Currently, he heads the lab’s Viral Communications Group, which explores how infrastructure-free, personal communications systems will transform society […]
Higher education historians often trace the modern growth and democratization of American higher learning to federal student financial aid – providing a system of higher education financing that has opened the doors of college and university campuses to students and families who would otherwise be unable to afford the spiraling costs of college tuition. […]
