As faculty members at a small, tuition-driven private college in the northeast, the familiar refrain of contemporary higher education in shambles rings in our heads. How will our college's low-endowment—combined with less than optimal name recognition—reconcile with the declining number of high school graduates in our region? How will the arms race of amenities and […]
The traditional MBA, the flagship of graduate business education for more than a century, is losing ground as applicants increasingly turn to online degrees and specialized master's programs in business-related fields. The decline in enrollment in full-time, two-year MBA programs has prompted business schools to roll out a wave of new graduate programs, from one-year […]
Remember IBM's Watson, the star of Jeopardy! a few years back? The computer system learns by examining data and earlier results it provided, then formulating even better answers and results for the next problem. Watson is probably the most well-known example of artificial intelligence, which has come out of research labs and onto college and […]
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 […]
Located in downtown Leesburg, Florida, Beacon College—the nation's first accredited four-year-degree-granting institution for students with learning disabilities—has brought a century-old train station back to life as a student center. Students can socialize or workout in the 3,400-square-foot space. CHALLENGE Beacon College's enrollment grew from 185 students in 2013 to more than 220 last year to 285 […]
It would be difficult to work in higher education and not be aware of the numerous completion initiatives that are underway nationally, all focused on increasing the number of Americans with a college credential. The voices that usually chime in to share scalable best practices include presidents, provosts, student affairs professionals and faculty. Rarely do […]
There are some 4,140 colleges and universities in America. If each spends an average of $50,000 per year in presenting speakers and lecturers–this becomes an annual investment which exceeds $200 million. In the campus public speaker marketplace, the majority of presenters receive fees and compensation of about $10,000 per engagement. Some receive $25,000+ and some […]
Part of the University of San Diego's forward-thinking mission is to ensure that all campus facilities are capable of serving not only today's students, but tomorrow's students as well. Over the past two and a half years, USD leaders have applied this philosophy to redesigning the campus bookstore. "Course materials come from a wide range […]
Student retention, persistence, success and graduation remain top-of-mind issues for higher ed leaders amidst the advent of the College Scorecard, the push toward 60 percent of high school graduates earning college degrees by 2020, and families' familiar concerns about return on investment. Lower-than-desired retention and graduation rates are not limited by an institution's size, sector, […]
Constructing an impressive welcome center to provide an enhanced environment for new students' enrollment and orientation activities was a paramount goal for leaders at the University of Houston-Downtown. To facilitate those activities and properly get students acclimated to university life, the welcome center, which will open officially in the spring 2016 semester, was outfitted with […]
