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10 tips for deploying a new assessment platform (differently)

Web Editor | September 08, 2014

Time and again, institutions struggle with properly deploying a new assessment platform. Often that fault lies with the vendor who lacks the knowledge or institutional expertise to provide sound counsel on how it should be accomplished. Take a different approach and it will be a success: 1. Separate orientation and training. Make it crystal clear to […]

Rising college costs: Stepping back from polemics

Dennis G. Stevens | September 03, 2014

At a time when the gulf between liberals and conservatives seems to be wider than ever, there is one topic about which they agree: the reasons for the rising cost of a college education. Why do colleges and universities keep raising tuition, asks Timothy Noah in The New Republic? Because they can. And Allysia Finley […]

College students pay more as subsidies drop

Stefanie Botelho | August 27, 2014

Subsidies for public higher ed institutions are the lowest in a decade—and for the first time, students are paying, on average, half or more of their tuition's cost. Those are a few of the financial trends substantiated by a recent American Institutes for Research (AIR) study. According to "Trends in College Spending: 2001–2011," a report […]

Interactive video within MOOCs: Impact on b-schools

UB Custom Publishing | August 27, 2014

"SuperText"—the interactive video and assessments within MOOCs—may be a threat or an opportunity to full-time business schools and MBA programs. It depends on which path officials take in deploying the technology, says the "Will Video Kill the Classroom Star?" report from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Written by Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch […]

IT centralization: Institutional hesitation

Stefanie Botelho | August 26, 2014

Despite technology's critical role in higher ed, there remains a gap between central IT and the rest of campus that can lead to unnecessary spending. Recent findings of a MeriTalk survey of 52 U.S. higher ed IT professionals illustrate this discrepancy. An average of 18 percent of campus IT systems are redundant, and 19 percent […]

Team effort needed for collecting loan default data

Marlo J. Gaal &John M. Bremen | August 25, 2014

Institutions that are successful in preventing loan defaults make it a campuswide effort, according to a recent survey by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) and The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS). Nine community college administrators from institutions of varying sizes and locations were asked about traits of their borrowers and defaulters, […]

When faculty step away from campus

Web Editor | August 24, 2014

There's a standard practice in academia that's highly valued; yet, at many colleges and universities, the policies and procedures surrounding it haven't changed in decades. Until now. The faculty sabbatical has been around since Harvard University first offered it to its teaching staff in 1880. Since then, sabbaticals have become a rite of passage for […]

Equipped for interaction on campus

August 21, 2014

First-year MBA students in the action-based degree program at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business spend seven weeks working with a U.S. or international company. After that, they form seven-member teams to propose a solution to a problem they encountered in the corporate world. But this learning process isn't just about the instruction—it's also […]

Adaptive learning thrives best among other technologies

chrisni | August 21, 2014

A recent report suggests that while new technologies enable adaptive learning to play a major role in the future of higher ed, most instructors have yet to use the philosophy to its full potential because they are not connecting it with other important innovations. In many cases those related innovations—such as blended learning, flipped classrooms […]

Jump-starting the liberal arts conversation

JD Solomon | August 20, 2014

Read just about any editorial page these days and you'll see a familiar refrain: "Is a college degree still worth it?" Wesleyan University (Conn.) President Michael Roth argues that not only is it worth it, but that it is more important than ever. Higher education admittedly faces many challenges over cost and access. Online instruction, […]

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