Often, student success efforts are focused primarily on retaining first-year students, but fail to continue supporting students throughout their college careers. At the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, the institution’s leadership wanted to take a broader approach to student success by developing a predictive model that would include upperclassmen. In this web seminar, the vice chancellor […]
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 […]
Donald Trump's pick for secretary of education, billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist Elisabeth "Betsy" DeVos, is more of a household name in K12 than higher ed circles. DeVos has worked to promote school choice and voucher programs, including creation of Detroit's charter school system. She sits on the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, whose […]
Betsy Mennell, Northern Arizona University’s development vice president, learned the hard way that “in fundraising, if you speak the language you can talk the talk, but you may not be able to walk the walk.” After being burned a few times hiring the wrong people—“disorganized, not self-disciplined, afraid to ask for money”—she now requires candidates […]
With headline after tragic headline, and demands from angry constituents and stakeholders to do more, colleges and universities are facing the harsh reality that just complying with the minimum requirements of the Campus SaVE (Sexual Violence Elimination) Act isn’t enough to prevent sexual assault. What’s more is that it’s not only the Title IX coordinator’s […]
To combat a surge in opioid overdoses and continued abuse of alcohol, colleges and universities are expanding services and facilities that aim to keep students in class as they recover from addiction. Along with counseling and academic advising, these centers host watch parties, hiking trips and other activities students can enjoy sober with peers also […]
A campus washing machine should send students a text when their clothes are done, and it can. Thanks to a concept called the Internet of Things, anything—really, anything—can and will be hooked up to a network. A simple bathroom scale in an athlete’s dorm room can connect to Wi-Fi and transmit weight, body fat percentage, […]
“Don’t just believe in UBTech, believe in something higher—your pursuit of education excellence.” And with those words, University Business Group Publisher Matt Kinnaman kicked off UBTech 2016. More than 1,100 campus tech leaders and innovators from across the nation flocked to Las Vegas for the June 6-8 event, descending upon The Mirage Convention Center for three […]
Early adopters tout virtual reality as the next big thing, and in higher education, 360-degree videos are adding exciting, immersive experiences. The best indicator that the time is right for “VR” can be found in the investments made by two competing tech giants, Google and Facebook. YouTube and Facebook now both support the showing of 360-degree […]
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Maryland—As a child, Freeman Hrabowski marched in Martin Luther King's peaceful civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in the mid-1960s. He wound up in jail for a week. Hundreds of miles away on the edge of the American South, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County opened its doors. It was the only campus […]
