Annual performance reviews are shunned for good reason. Your boss tells you everything you did right—but mostly wrong—over the past year, subjectively rates your performance, and then identifies areas you need to improve. Many higher education institutions question the wisdom of this antiquated approach and are exploring alternatives. Some are abandoning ratings while others are […]
Question 1: What are the most common misconceptions about teletherapy services for college students? "With teletherapy still being relatively new to colleges and consumers, there is often the misconception that this is a new type of healthcare service in itself. But teletherapy is just a means of providing therapy as we've known it through a […]
Imagine a relay race with no one to hand off the torch? This is the daunting challenge we face with the future of agricultural education. Nationwide, fewer than one out of ten students are likely to consider agriculture as a career and among agricultural students, one out of ten will actually consider agricultural education as […]
The percentage of students accepting job offers three months after graduation is a common—and logical—MBA student outcomes stat. But why do most business schools share that particular outcome, and others like it? It's likely the result of many institutions following the Standards of Reporting MBA Employment Statistics created by the MBA Career Services & Employer […]
Editor's Note: This is part 3 of a 3-part series on b-school survival. Read Part 1 and Part 2. In a competitive landscape, business schools that aren't in the top tier of MBA rankings must find other ways to differentiate themselves. Many are highlighting student success data and employment outcomes to captivate MBA candidates whose biggest consideration is: […]
How you go to college matters more than where you go to college, says Bentley University President Gloria Cordes Larson. In her book Prepared U (2017 Jossey-Bass), Larson says institutions that focus on professional studies do a fine job preparing students for a job after college. But they often fall short on building "lifelong learning […]
Editor's Note: This is part 2 of a 3-part series on b-school survival. Read Part 1. Applications to full-time, two-year MBA programs in the U.S. have been down since 2014, and this past fall, 64 percent of programs reported declines, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council's "Application Trends Survey Report 2017." To counter that, […]
The finalized version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that President Trump signed into law poses less of a perceived threat to higher ed than the bill that passed the House. Proponents say that people who use education-savings accounts will benefit from deductions in student loan interest. Critics, however, predict that the doubling of […]
What's more important in higher education: preparing for a profession or attaining a well-rounded liberal arts education? The answer is that in today's world both are critical. The cost of a higher education is high and the workplace demands not only the capacity for critical thinking associated with liberal arts, but new skills like "design […]
Despite the big push for STEM majors and career-focused skills in recent years, the liberal arts seem to be making a resurgence. Liberal arts degree programs in 2016 ranked No. 1 for most completions as well as for the biggest increase in completions, higher ed consulting firm Gray Associates found in a recent analysis of […]
