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Living with unions in higher education

Stefanie Botelho | February 02, 2015

The temperature around higher education unionizing efforts often runs hot. Officials are reluctant to have outside labor groups on campus or to relinquish control over important personnel decisions—including pay, benefits and other sensitive employee issues. But should higher ed leaders fear unionization efforts? One primary area of worry for institutions whose employees are beginning to […]

The Perfect Payment Plan and Tracking Pending Aid

Web Editor | January 30, 2015

Dealing with covering financial shortfalls in student packages, managing tuition refunds and providing excellent customer support with small staffs are common problems business offices face. This web seminar, originally broadcast on May 8, 2014, featured a financial leader who explained how her institution adapted department policies as enrollment continued to rise. She also discussed the […]

Jointly funded town-gown program draws wider interest

Bill Fleak | January 30, 2015

From dealing with an increase in student housing to managing off-campus student conduct, Colorado State University and the city of Fort Collins have a more than decade-long partnership that’s become a model for other higher ed institutions and their hometowns. CSU’s enrollment is expected to grow from 27,000 students to 35,000 within the next 10 […]

University Crossing at UMass Lowell

Bill Fleak | January 29, 2015

All offices involved in student success are now, for the first time, housed together in the new 230,000-square-foot University Crossing student center. The building also links the South, North and East campuses with the city’s downtown business district and cultural attractions. Challenge Historically, University of Massachusetts, Lowell comprised of three separate campuses geographically divided by […]

Designing AV Interfaces to Support Classroom Instruction

Web Editor | January 28, 2015

As institution leaders plan out campus-wide AV projects, what are the top strategies for successful implementation of maintainable systems? At my institution, we strive to meet three design principles when completing all AV projects: Simplicity: We want a user interface that is easy for faculty and end users to operate with little to no learning […]

Who’s managing your campus waste?

Web Editor | January 28, 2015

In the 1990s, Al Gore warned the public about the consequences of global warming. Though Gore may not have been the father of campus recycling nor the Internet, he and other like minded politicians placed the environmental public policy ball in play within the executive and legislative branches of Federal and State governments. At first, some […]

Georgia leads college consolidation movement

Matt Zalaznick | January 28, 2015

The University System of Georgia has worked to combine several more of its higher education institutions this year in what is likely the nation’s most aggressive and high-profile campus consolidation program. Around the country, institutions are merging at a slower pace, with some proposed consolidations collapsing under backlash from students and other community members. “I […]

Higher ed is a tough world, but it’s a world we made

JD Solomon | January 28, 2015

People often go to college for the wrong reasons, with assumptions about how it’s going to benefit them, says Donald Farish. “When it doesn’t come out the way they imagined it would be, then, of course, it’s everybody else’s fault.” Farish, president of Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, will be the inaugural speaker at […]

Are we producing too many Ph.D.s?

Web Editor | January 27, 2015

Each year, the market for tenure-eligible faculty positions becomes more and more competitive, and a greater number of newly minted Ph.D. graduates struggle to find a job. The U.S. annually produces about 70,000 new doctoral graduates, representing a significant investment of time and money by both the students and their universities. Considering that cost, and […]

And rankings for all: Questioning national college rating framework

Stefanie Botelho | January 27, 2015

College ranking systems are typically viewed as unreliable metrics, often accused of practicing favoritism based on questionable criteria that varies by publisher. In an attempt to provide an unbiased and informed resource for prospective students and their families, the Obama administration has formulated its own version of a college ranking system. Based on three areas—access, […]

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