Now more than ever, enrollment leadership requires a coordinated campus team to respond to emerging internal challenges as well as shifting external forces. One college president likened the job of chief enrollment officer to a pilot flying the plane while building it. In short, the immediate drive to fill enrollment goals today competes with the […]
The Core Campus Project—a mixed-use addition to Clemson University—includes student housing, retail and residential dining, and is also a centralized home for the Calhoun Honors College. It creates a new "main street" for pedestrians at the heart of campus and provides living space for 700 students. CHALLENGE: As enrollment continues to grow—more than 6,400 students […]
Barry Mills has been appointed deputy chancellor and chief operating officer of the University of Massachusetts Boston. He will oversee the academic and research programs and campus operations, as well as work with the chancellor on developing long-term strategies. Mills plans to enhance access and opportunity for students in his new role. Previously, while president […]
Disabilities services administrators at Greenfield Community College in Massachusetts, University of Connecticut and Landmark College in Vermont recommend the following assistive technology for students with executive dysfunction: Read & Write software makes websites, documents and files more accessible. It's an intuitive toolbar that assists students with everyday tasks such as reading text aloud, understanding unfamiliar […]
Community colleges in two of California's biggest cities have announced plans to substantially expand access to public education by offering residents the chance to earn an associate degree for free. While states like Tennessee, Kentucky and Oregon have free community college initiatives, the city of San Francisco's announcement early this year made it the first […]
On April 16, 2007, a senior at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks, two hours apart, in a residence hall and then an academic building. It had been 41 years since a University of Texas at Austin student killed 17 people and wounded 31 from atop […]
"The reaction to people who are threatening in the workplace, classroom or laboratory environment has changed," says International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Executive Director Sue Riseling. "We've seen a tremendous number of cases where there is a mental illness component. Of course, that's why you want to intervene early and get them the […]
A link to Virginia Tech's We Remember website, created immediately after the tragedy, holds a prominent place at the top right of the university's home page. Each spring, updated commemoration event information gets posted to the site, www.weremember.vt.edu—with all previous content remaining accessible and the victims' photos and biographies easy to find. "Nothing has ever […]
The student debt crisis—despite dire warnings from the media—is not as bad as it is portrayed, researchers Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos say. In their book Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt (Princeton University Press, 2016), the authors say the popular myth of looming crisis has obscured the real problems facing student […]
