Helping all students reach their full academic and professional potential lies at the heart of several the initiatives honored as this summer's Models of Excellence. An "App Factory" at a regional state university turned its paid interns into hot business commodities who have been hired quickly after graduation. In the year-round program, students train their […]

Just hours before it was scheduled to be administered in June, the ACT college admission test was canceled in South Korea and Hong Kong. Approximately 5,500 international students were turned away from testing centers after ACT Inc. announced that it had received credible evidence that test materials in these regions had been leaked in advance, […]

Although their leaders might claim otherwise, ratings by U.S. News, Princeton Review and others are of outsized importance to universities today. But what about the many colleges that didn't rank high with these reviewers? How can they compete with the list-toppers? One answer may be that what really matters to prospective students is not so […]

What is the biggest misconception higher ed leaders have around the need to prepare for campuswide IoT? "It won't concern them … it's just an IT thing. Technology underpins everything in higher education, administration, academics and IT. The IoT is about every connection on campus and it can drive improved outcomes—intelligent connections deliver efficient operations […]