Michigan State University Social experiment: Facebook Photo contest Facebook.com/msufinaid/ The idea: To show the positive side of financial aid, Michigan State held a contest that asked students to share a photo of an experience that would not have been possible had they not received aid. Ten students won $500 each. Result: “We put it out […]

With a student population of over 40,000, managing scholarship applications and processing supporting documents was more than a daunting task for the financial aid team at the University of Ottawa. The Canadian institution had been using an obsolete online system, which did not support the automation of supporting documents and created a burdensome student application […]

What’s the biggest misconception administrators outside the facilities department tend to have related to heating and cooling campus buildings? “Administrators believe [that] just because they have invested a lot of capital in an expensive energy efficiency upgrade to a facility, the opportunity for behavioral energy conservation savings is minimal. The reality is, energy efficiency upgrades […]

At least 1,831 gifts of $1 million or more—a total of $24.5 billion—were given to charity across eight international regions in 2014, with higher education remaining the top recipient. Yet it’s a decrease from 2013, when 1,995 donations worth $26.3 billion were reported. That’s all according to research from the “Million Dollar Donors Report” released […]