Prospective and current students, as well as alumni, need guidance from their institutions in being responsible about taking out student loans and then paying them back.
With many college students, even high-achieving ones, feeling overwhelmed, faculty can play a role in encouraging students to take care of themselves. Here's how.
In this Q and A, UB Tech 2020 keynote speaker Freeman A. Hrabowski III offers advice and inspiration for higher ed technology administrators. He is president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Boosts in strategic decision-making institutionwide make data analytics programs worthwhile, but understanding first all the work involved—from the tech build and cultural shift to the measurement lag—is key, says UB guest columnist Darren Catalano, who is the former vice president of analytics at the University of Maryland Global Campus.
Film covers Wheaton College (Ill.) professor's suspension for making a statement that officials determined conflicted with the institution's statement of faith.
UB Future Shock columnist James E. Samels addresses how JCC President Daniel DeMarte's vision is boosting enrollment and the local workforce in western New York.
UB guest columnist Russell Lowery-Hart discusses how his participation in a weekendlong homelessness simulation helped lead to greater supports and success for students at Amarillo College in Texas, where he has served as president since 2014.
Unless you are among the nation's exclusive (and expensive) colleges and universities, you need to focus on affordability and curricular innovations, says Scott D. Miller, UB guest columnist and president of Virginia Wesleyan University. Those resistant to change are ignoring market realities that can combine to create the perfect storm—and lead to closure.
