Higher ed institutions are raising the bar on instructional videos as professors learn best practices in content development and production from their expert colleagues on campus
Black and Latino students’ college attendance rates are rising, while the overall percentage of white college students is declining. Yet you won’t see much evidence of that on a tour of selective colleges, says Martin Van Der Werf, associate director for editorial and postsecondary policy at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce […]
All universities have a special duty to emphasize diversity and inclusion because we are educating the workforce and civic leaders of the next generation. Miami University's deliberate strategies have helped us integrate diversity and inclusion into every decision we make.
When Ashley Podhradsky became the first woman to earn her doctorate from Dakota State University in South Dakota in 2010, little did she know the impact she would have nationally on the lives of girls and women in the male-dominated field of cyber sciences. She spent five years at Drexel University in Philadelphia before returning […]
This web seminar discussed some best practices to engage with the new generation of students, as well as some strategies to ensure authenticity in student engagement efforts. Sponsored content by Campus Management.
Curtis Carver likes to keep things simple. Not that he isn't invested in the latest technologies, but he says technology should be without roadblocks to the user experience. Toward that end, as vice president and CIO at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Carver spearheaded numerous improvements, including unlimited email, unlimited storage, greatly enhanced connectivity, […]
For generations, the American public has been told by venerable think tanks like Brookings, Pew and other educational research foundations and professional associations that American students lag significantly behind their global counterparts when it comes to math and science aptitude. This research suggests that over the past 20 years, the US has only marginally improved […]
As a society, we have succeeded in communicating the economic payoff that a college education can offer. At present, the value of lifetime earnings for a person with a bachelor's degree is $500,000 more than a high school graduate. We have not, however, succeeded in helping many of our students understand how to pay for […]
