"To provide an opportunity for students to share their concerns with the President and in effort to connect with students, President Schrader held the first Student Town Hall meeting in March 2020. A year later, we continue to hold town hall meetings to both collect and share information with students and hear their concerns."
Here's what four thought leaders had to say as part of a panel at the Presence Summit. The session focused on how communications can be enhanced with video presence within the campus environment.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, UB guest columnists Katherine Turnbull and Peter Lange share how Texas A&M's living laboratory environment has harnessed the brainpower of students, faculty and researchers and fostered innovation to maintain campus mobility, reduce traffic and boost green space.
The Defense Department put out a call on social media seeking university-owned or commercially managed underground urban tunnels and facilities to host research and experimentation. Officials say underground passages can aid disaster response and combat operations.
For generations, the American public has been told by venerable think tanks like Brookings, Pew and other educational research foundations and professional associations that American students lag significantly behind their global counterparts when it comes to math and science aptitude. This research suggests that over the past 20 years, the US has only marginally improved […]
The challenge: Reduce summer melt for incoming freshmen at Georgia State University. The method: Use an artificially intelligent chatbot to help students complete pre-enrollment tasks, such as submitting transcripts and taking care of immunization requirements. The results: Summer melt for 2016-17 was 21 percent less than in the prior year. The hero: Pounce the text-based […]
What began as a push to increase the number and diversity of students studying STEM has evolved into a full-scale effort to improve teaching and learning at The University of Arizona. In 2013, the college was selected as one of eight initial project sites for The STEM Undergraduate Initiative, a project of the Association of […]
Like most institutions, the University of Arizona began utilizing lecture capture technology through small-scale experimentation, starting at the departmental level. And those experiments would bear fruit—in just a few years lecture capture had taken hold at UA, with faculty producing more than 2TB of video every week, and students viewing more than 30,000 hours of […]
It is propitious on the 200th anniversary of the birth of beloved American naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, that we reflect on lessons he learned in the woods. He put it this way: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I […]
