Partnerships add revenue and enrollment numbers to a college's bottom line and expand the career track offerings students need. It's a win-win for both sectors facing changing markets.
One of the best ways for IHEs to tackle union organization issues is to understand why student workers turn to unions in the first place. Recent examples of union organization campaigns at IHEs suggest that student workers believe union membership may provide them better benefits in the following areas: Increased compensation Greater access to training […]
July 1 marked the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states, along with it new laws that will affect K12 and higher education. But for many teachers and students, they may prove themselves disruptive to learning and instruction.
Anyone who thinks we will thrive by returning to the old way of doing things is wrong. Today, it is clear that about 70% or more of the university president's job is leading in ambiguity.
Higher education professionals, industry leaders and state legislators are beginning to recognize its revelatory potential to foster the next chapter of academic equity, workforce access and attractive program offerings.
When West Virginia University took the local campus out of Montgomery five years ago, it took more from the rural town than just a college. Suddenly, 1,500 students were gone. More than 100 staff and faculty moved out. The bar and the car dealership closed. The grocery store, too. And it was only going to […]
While NACE's "First Destinations" 2021 showed recuperating rates for graduating bachelor's students, several schools have bucked the national trend, averaging student placement rates well over 10% than average.
Their former employer, Houghton University, wanted them to drop the identifiers in line with a new policy for email formats implemented in September. Both refused and were fired. Ongoing culture wars in the U.S. over sexual preferences, gender IDs and transgender rights have engulfed politics, school campuses and many other facets of public and private […]
After more than a year of organizing, Miami University faculty have officially unionized. Despite how individuals may have voted, now all faculty are represented in the union. That's more than 800 members, including tenured and tenure-track faculty and teaching professors, clinical faculty and lecturers with longer-term contracts. Miami is the largest employer in Butler County, with […]
Experts said a combination of factors got us here. Some industries, like the tech sector, have felt the brunt of the 10 interest rate hikes the Federal Reserve has implemented since March last year. In other areas, while the economy has generally recovered from the pandemic disruption, employers can't find enough workers. "There still are sectors and […]
