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Colleges need to realize the dark side of digital media

Kelly Walsh | February 13, 2018

Every day in homes and schools across the world, people get excited about what they can do with new digital devices. On social media we share pictures, humor, heartfelt thoughts, frustrations and so much more. We can now connect face-to-face across the globe at a moment’s notice. In classrooms, passionate teachers leverage technology to create […]

Mentorships demystify college to career transitions

Web Editor | February 08, 2018

Mentorship is widely regarded as a high-impact practice in various learning environments—from hospitals to science laboratories to leadership development programs. With proven examples of the power of mentorship in place, it is time to approach this educational practice more systematically and intentionally. One area with tremendous promise for such a systemic approach is helping students […]

College leaders: Embrace your mistakes

Web Editor | February 07, 2018

We are in the business of teaching and learning. So why not expand our learning and explore our mistakes—and the lessons we absorb from them? With almost 20 years on the communications side of higher education, I've learned a great deal from key stakeholders and my brilliant teams. But I've learned from my mistakes, too. […]

Jesuit Higher Learning in the 21st Century

Web Editor | January 17, 2018

Jesuit education in America has a distinguished history that is deeply rooted in faith and intellectual rigor. Today, according to the Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities, the 28 American Jesuit institutions educate their students within the Ignatian heritage of Jesuit education "in a way that seeks God in all things, promotes discernment, and engages […]

Let’s talk about sex in higher education

JD Solomon | November 16, 2017

If there’s one thing clear from Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power and Consent on Campus (2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), it is that what you think you know about sex on campus is probably wrong. Vanessa Grigoriadis embedded herself in the campus environment, speaking candidly with students and administrators to find that the definition of sexual […]

EngineeringCAS —The Centralized Application Service (CAS) for engineering graduate students

Web Editor | November 09, 2017

The American Society for Engineering Education, the pre-eminent authority on the education of engineering professionals, knew that associations for other disciplines had great success with Liaison-powered Centralized Application Services (CAS). Nathan Kahl, ASEE’s managing director for communications and society advancement, thought it might be time to offer his member engineering schools the same benefits. After […]

New higher ed president starts tenure at RIT

Web Editor | October 15, 2017

David Munson, the new president of Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, plans to build upon RIT's strategic plan, "Greatness Through Difference." Munson has 38 years of experience in higher education. At the University of Michigan, he served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and as the Robert J. […]

Where art thou, higher education?

Web Editor | October 09, 2017

After a decade of living abroad, in fall 2016 I returned to the US and accepted a position as Assistant Professor at a state university in the Midwest. Eager and hyper-alert, I began noticing that American students, both graduate and undergraduate, were encountering significant difficulties in writing academic papers. I was dumbfounded. Having spent many […]

Bridging the gap between college campus and workplace

Web Editor | September 27, 2017

The criteria employers use to evaluate recent college graduates for jobs in the real world of today have changed dramatically. The majority of college classrooms have not kept pace with or do not sufficiently prepare students for the evolving demands of the workplace environment—and employers are noticing. The design elements of the college classroom and […]

Inspiring justice on campus

Web Editor | July 24, 2017

Walkways, walls, lecterns, chairs and benches. Hardly rarities on a college campus. But these standard items, when rendered in bronze and granite on a major University of Dayton thoroughfare, carry great historical significance and critical contemporary purpose. At this Catholic, Marianist university in Ohio, an artistic arrangement of three aligned chairs, a pulpit, an inscribed wall, […]

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