Higher ed enrollment challenges and pandemic concerns can bring about change in the role data can play, allowing it to affect, and shape, the entire college or university organization.
College and universities offer their own students and those from other institutions an online year to make up for limited travel and internship opportunities.
The Lisa and James Wilson Institute for Medicine at Albion College in Michigan is embarking on college-wide premedical curriculum reform, including efforts to increase diversity among physicians. Here's a look at the changes they made and how the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as an opportunity for all medical schools to adapt their programming.
Transform bureaucratic orientation, registration, financial aid, advising, counseling, accessibility, career center and other services so that they enable student goals and the academic mission rather than distract from them.
This summer, multiple professors at the Washington college participated in a coronavirus course for admitted students and now other higher ed leaders can access the content to provide similar lectures at their own institutions.
The future will be shaped by those whose education is now preparing them for their contributions to whatever comeback we envision, say UB guest columnists Jo Allen and Andrew K. Benton, of Meredith College and Pepperdine U, respectively. Our investment in students could not be more critical.
A growing number of colleges and universities have gone test-optional, dropping requirements for SAT and ACT standardized test scores as the coronavirus outbreak hinders students' access to the exams.
Some predict higher ed's shift to pass/fail grading and online learning during coronavirus closures will raise greater awareness about the inequities some students face.
An integrated, personalized and meaningful engagement strategy brings in more than just gifts, says UB guest columnist Robert Anderson, who is vice president for alumni relations and development at Albion College in Michigan.
