For years, The Extended Campuses of Northern Arizona University used a traditional marketing model. The four-person marketing team would create an annual budget and tie its goals and specific projects to it. Freelancers and local advertising agencies provided support for the 50 or so marketing pieces produced throughout the year. That model worked fine until […]

People walking past 160 Massachusetts Ave. in Boston are likely to both see and hear beautiful music being made. That's the point of this 14,000-square-foot addition to Berklee College of Music. CHALLENGE: College enrollment had grown to 4,000 full-time equivalents but housing was lagging behind. "We only had about 800 beds and we were unable […]

The University of Puget Sound in February became the first higher ed institution to accept a gift of digital currency, when alumnus Nicolas Cary gave the Washington school 14.5 bitcoins—equal to $10,000. For the uninitiated, Bitcoin is a global, open source virtual economy created in 2009, and bitcoins are its cyber currency, used for electronic […]

Administrators at public colleges and universities received larger raises in 2013 than did their private-institution counterparts. That's a key finding in the "2013-14 Administrators in Higher Education Salary Survey," conducted by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The difference isn't substantial: Senior-level public administrators saw a median increase of 2.5 percent, while […]