Colleges and universities must rethink the way they approach admissions, program offerings and business operations to ensure they can survive and thrive, says UB guest columnist Mark Lombardi, president of Maryville University in St. Louis.
Cedar Crest College President Elizabeth Meade shares strategies for addressing students' financial burdens—through increased affordability and travel abroad and work-study opportunities for all.
Today's workforce expectations are prompting HR leaders to enhance the candidate experience, streamline the hiring process and promote value propositions, says UB HR columnist Carol Patton. And some leaders are thinking the unthinkable—accepting work experience as a substitute for a college degree.
Prevention is key to combating student use of e-cigarettes, say UB guest columnists Melinda Ickes, Jim Pauly and Beth Magner of the University of Kentucky. Here are four strategies.
Connect data with decision-making to compete and thrive—or paltry prospects and eroding enrollments will continue, says UB guest columnist and UB Tech featured speaker Jason Simon. Simon, who is associate vice president for Data, Analytics, and Institutional Research at the University of North Texas, provides strategies for getting started.
Graduates with associate degrees in engineering can earn substantially more than workers with a bachelor's degree in education, according to a new Georgetown University report.
Colleges and universities are powering up with esports teams to engage a new wave of students and create future career pathways in a rapidly growing industry.
The best relationships grow out of collaborative planning and programming, and require a shared philosophy and practice of transparency about future development options, says James E. Samels, UB Future Shock columnist.
Boosts in strategic decision-making institutionwide make data analytics programs worthwhile, but understanding first all the work involved—from the tech build and cultural shift to the measurement lag—is key, says UB guest columnist Darren Catalano, who is the former vice president of analytics at the University of Maryland Global Campus.
