The University of Florida picked a president with experience at a neighboring flagship while Northwestern University hired its new leader away from another Big 10 institution.
Universities must implement intelligent space management solutions to boost enrollment, maximize retention, and create seamless experiences that drive a sense of belonging and long-term engagement.
Post-secondary education is an investment that should leave students financially better off. However, reducing a college education to early-career earnings data is economically misguided.
Those of us working most closely with students know that persistence does not happen because a resource exists. It happens because a student is ready to engage in it.
As mission statements become highly generalized, they provide diminishing guidance for allocating resources, defining target student populations or evaluating program and institutional performance.