As higher education continues to feel pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiency, campus IT environments are rapidly changing and the speed of cloud adoption is increasing. More schools are utilizing cloud technology to modernize systems, cut costs and analyze data to gain insights about more cost-effective ways to run the institution. But it is […]
From early alert programs to degree paths, current student success initiatives often focus solely on academics. But many students leave without completing their degrees due to issues outside of academics. Any institution’s approach to student success must be inclusive of both academic and non-academic issues. This web seminar outlined what can be missed when student […]
Describe the importance of retiree health issues when designing health care benefits for retirees. What concerns are you focused on? From our members’ standpoint, they’re concerned with the fact that they’re living longer and they want to enjoy life. Our retirees have an average age of 74. We have 6,000 retired teachers over the age […]
Seth Bodnar, 38, left General Electric Transportation to become the 18th president of the University of Montana. Bodnar spent six years at GE as a senior executive and president and CIO of its Digital Solutions business. He also served in the military for eight years. At Montana, Bodnar plans to address declining enrollment and budgetary […]
Career center staff spend a lot of time encouraging students to access available supports, but they may need to work even harder to serve international students. A recent survey by World Education Services (WES) found that more than 40 percent of current international students had not yet used campus career services. Among international student alumni who […]
The Lumina Foundation has been pursuing the goal of recognizing and accepting for-credit microcredentials and learning experiences for several years, through their Connecting Credentials effort and the proposed framework they launched back in 2015 (http://connectingcredentials.org/). This framework seeks to define an architecture wherein competencies can be defined in structured sets that can lead to microcredentials that […]
The University of Iowa adds narration in five languages to its online commencement videos so families from around the globe can experience their children's graduation.
Adaptive Suite (Adaptive Insights) Cloud-based performance management software for budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting and dashboards adaptiveinsights.com Axiom Higher Education Suite (Kaufman Hall) Software to support institutional planning and reporting kaufmanhall.com Banner Finance ERP (Ellucian) Higher ed-specific system designed to gain in-depth financial insights through real-time visibility and reporting capabilities ellucian.com Link to main story: Higher ed […]
When the finance team at Wofford College in South Carolina wanted to show it could support a slightly higher than average tuition increase, advanced financial software was on hand to make the case to the board of trustees. “We loaded historical sticker prices for Wofford and our peers into the software and then made a […]
