Train both students and faculty The University of North Carolina at Pembroke uses WebEx to allow students—even those in very remote areas with no broadband internet access—to provide access to lectures online. The IT team initially offered training and on-demand assistance for students only, but its popularity inspired a new category of training focused on […]
While providing access to courses is essential to educating students in remote areas, helping them feel they are a part of the campus community is another key piece for retention and completion efforts. What: A branded campus app used to connect students with courses and campus life Where: Lindsey Wilson College, located on the southern tip of […]
What are the biggest technology barriers for students in rural areas who want to pursue postsecondary education but can't get to a campus? How can colleges break through those barriers? "The greatest challenge for students in rural areas involves access to engaging and pedagogically sound mobile learning experiences. Through investments in accessibility, a focus on […]
Before an international student can receive an F-1 visa to study in the United States, the student must apply to the U.S. consulate in their home country with an I-20 Certificate of Eligibility. It is the higher education institution's responsibility to ensure that accepted international students have all of the necessary admission requirements prior to […]
In its report "Navigating The New Normal: Financial Imperatives For MSI Effectiveness and Avoiding Financial Exigency," the Southern Education Foundation suggests that trustees could better understand their institutions' financial health with answers to these questions. 1. What is the discount rate for entering freshmen versus for continuing students? 2. What is the blended discount rate? Link […]
Americans learned from the timeless wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from fiction." One of the great challenges of Community, Technical, and County Colleges is to provide quality, affordable higher learning […]
We hear it all the time—complaints about the inefficiency of public higher education in Massachusetts. These complaints are often based on the incorrect assumption that providing students with a choice—the choice of where, when, and what to study is necessarily inefficient. How do we provide choice in an efficient way? I'll answer that from my […]
International students coming to the United States can mean a financial boon for community colleges as well as the towns and cities where they reside. Nearly 100,000 international students attending U.S. community colleges contributed $2.4 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 14,000 jobs during the 2016-17 academic year, according to data released […]
Better academic performance. Increased student retention and graduation rates. Improved sense of campus community. Online exclusive: Edtech providers on student/faculty ties These are just three benefits that closer ties among faculty and students can yield. Here are nine places to foster such connections. Service-learning sites Tactic: Engage with the community through formal and informal service-learning projects. […]
For several decades scholars in a variety of disciplines have argued about the relationship between knowledge and rhetoric, investigating the inherent connections between how we know what we know and how we communicate what we know. These debates have been primarily theoretical, provoking some to wonder about the practical consequences of the discussion. What better […]
