Higher ed should deliver a steady stream of events and other opportunities to bring faculty, administrators and students together to discuss and take positive action about racial injustice and white privilege, says Michelle Loris, associate dean of Curriculum and Special Projects for the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of Catholic Studies at […]
Campus procurement offices take action to help higher ed institutions reach campus sustainability goals through greener purchasing policy and practice.
Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California, needs more space. Students learn in makeshift classrooms at a local medical center and lack a campus to call their own. Instead of building one, officials came up with a new solution to meet the institution's needs: Share a campus with another college in Oakland. This fall, Samuel Merritt […]
In response to the White House's Executive Order titled "Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United States," we as leaders at colleges and universities have had to take decisive action to protect our foreign students and faculty members, and to allay the fears of the many domestic students who travel overseas to study. […]
While many institutions that examine their tuition remission spending wind up reining in spending in this area, some schools are actually increasing the benefit to better recruit and retain top-notch talent. Last year, leaders at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, increased the tuition benefit for employees’ spouses and children from 75 […]
Like many of my peers in higher education IT, we at Barry University support an open, collaborative learning environment. And that means embracing campuswide mobility and a bring-your-own-device policy. To minimize the risks associated with mobility and BYOD, we now use an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) defense. It’s a vital and necessary precautionary measure to […]
In the eyes of many, higher education has become an industry focused on a singular goal—career training—and college students these days forgo the big questions about who they are and how they can change the world. In The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation (University Of Chicago Press, 2015), Tim Clydesdale […]
