Though some instructors think flipping the classroom is as simple as students watching lectures online and doing their homework in class, version 2.0 of the practice is evolving to allow faculty to provide more rigorous, in-depth instruction. About half of U.S. higher ed faculty had taught in a flipped environment as of winter 2014, according […]
Snow College's latest travel policy included new, logical restrictions. For example: Employees would be reimbursed only for for hotel stays on days that matched an event's agenda, and they could no longer expense a first-class airline seat. The Utah college got lots of comments—about three-quarters of them negative—when the regulations were posted for a 30-day […]
As high-profile racial incidents on college campuses make headlines across the country, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is grappling with controversy surrounding Saunders Hall. The history building—named for former student, North Carolina secretary of state and Ku Klux Klan member William Saunders—has spurred petitions and demonstrations by students and faculty demanding a […]
Roughly six years ago, David Lewis served on a team that was designing policies for a new college in the Middle East. As president of OperationsInc., a national HR consulting and outsourcing firm, he met with seven top U.S. higher ed institutions to review their policies, including travel. To Lewis, travel has now become "a […]
In a "post-racial" and "post-feminist" America, do we still need colleges and universities that serve women? If most institutions now admit those previously excluded, isn't the disappearance of women's colleges and historically black colleges, oddly, a good thing? Not in my view. The recent announcement of the closing of Sweet Briar College is not a […]
The incoming classes at most schools want ubiquitous technology, and expect it to be available when someone uses their cell phone, tablet, laptop or other device. IT leaders are charged with fulfilling the campus community's needs and must do so within budgetary constraints, while continuously scanning the technological environment to make certain that advances are […]
What types of people at your school are not saving for retirement? Young employees? Low-income earners? Maybe single parents with children? Several years ago, Linda Nilsen needed to know. As the executive director of benefits and compensation at Princeton University, she analyzed the non-savers—about half of the school's 6,000 employees. To her surprise, there were […]
Most institutions think they measure the impact and the performance of social media, but only a few have shown they are ready to invest the necessary time and resources to measure what really matters. How your school defines social media measurement ultimately determines how strategically it uses social media. Many colleges use their social media […]
Joe Adams, Interim President and CEO and Vice President of Research and Cyber Security, Merit Network The Michigan Cyber Range is a virtual facility where people can practice responses to cyberattacks. What was the impetus behind creating it? In October 2011, Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder, called for the development of a virtual facility for cybersecurity workforce training. Merit Network […]
The Great Recession of 2007-08 had a profound impact on both public and private universities. In How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Jeffrey R. Brown, a finance professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and co-editor Caroline M. Hoxby, a Stanford economics professor, examine universities […]
