Sharing resources among campuses makes sense for more than economical reasons, as colleges are finding these opportunities can better serve busy students. Students at neighboring Cornell University and Ithaca College can now borrow materials from the libraries on either campus. It is a natural extension of the institutions’ long-standing interlibrary loan program, says Wendy Wilcox, access services librarian at […]

Vanderbilt University, with the help of the Boston Consulting Group, conducted a comprehensive internal audit in 2015 to better understand its regulatory compliance costs. With just under 13,000 students, the Nashville university found that compliance cost $146 million in 2013-14, or 11 percent of the school’s non-hospital operating budget. The University of North Carolina’s 17 […]

Engineering Innovation Hub The State University of New York at New Paltz This two-story, 19,500-square-foot structure, with an anticipated spring 2019 completion, will serve as a business incubator for technology and engineering startups. Spaces will include a 1,900-square-foot teaching lab, a 3D-printing hub, a 850-square-foot machine shop and a 1,200-square-foot computer lab, among other facilities. Urbahn […]

What deep currents will shape this new year for higher ed digital marketers and communicators? I’ve tried to answer this question every January for the past few years, and it doesn’t get easier. Change is the only constant. While we can’t see the future, we can keep an eye on digital marketing trends to help […]