With a smaller pool of available students, a growing wake of attention to mental health and a swelling public skepticism of higher education, these small private college and university leaders in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Maine are redefining their job to guide their schools in murky waters.
Schools are racing to replace 20-year-old administrative systems to modernize the faculty and student online experience, yet investments in cloud-based infrastructure dropped by double-digits in 2022, something Tambellini Group has never recorded before.
Institutions need more efficient strategies to collect key student information and use that data to deliver a more optimized student experience. One often overlooked strategy? Educational events such as college fairs, kick-off weeks, campus tours and other activities.
Three unions at the University of Rutgers comprising faculty, adjunct faculty and graduate student workers flooded Rutgers' three campuses to commence the first strike in the 257-year-old school's history.
According to a new survey by The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), 84% of its member institutions reported they plan to update or adapt their facilities over the next year.
For high schoolers who are still eager to enroll in college, both parents and students are more motivated to apply to a college or university whose programs best align with students' career interests, not the academic reputation of the school.
Academics from Princeton, NYU, and UPenn found that of the 20 occupations most exposed to AI language modeling capabilities, 14 of them were postsecondary teachers.
More respondents chose a "college with the best program for my (my child's) career interests" (38%) than they did a "college with the best academic reputation" (11%) as the two top factors in the selection process, according to The Princeton Review's 2023 College Hopes & Worries Survey Report.
