Recruiting Foreign Students for Diversity Growing Trend?
Kate Fenner of Compass Higher Education Consulting was interviewed by the Pittsburgh Tribune’s business reporter Joe Napsha for an investigative piece on colleges and universities actively recruiting...
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Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States,” a 2012 collaborative survey report based on responses from over 2,800 academic leaders and published by the Babson...
View ArticleThe Importance of Being Driven by Data in Higher Education
Using Institutional Research and Analysis to Proactively and Pre-emptively Manage the Enterprise By Susan Coia Gailey, Founder, Data-Based Institutional Research, Assessment & Reporting Systems...
View ArticleHigher Education’s Perfect Storm is Here
Two of You Will Not Make It Older readers may recall their college orientations session. Remember those folding bridge table chairs and general air of discomfort? The Dean imploring you to look to your...
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“The hottest rings of Hell … are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis do nothing.” Thus goesPresident Kennedy’s quote of Dante’s Inferno, and currently so goes much of higher...
View ArticleTaking Up the Challenge of Change in the University Environment
No one welcomes change—a simple truth magnified in many institutional settings, but even more evident in the cultures that predominate in university settings. Academics are creatures of traditions such...
View ArticleChallenges of Changing Student Demographics – is Higher Education Leadership...
There are two core issues to discuss when focusing on needed changes in Student Health and Counseling: First – The Changing Student Demographics The changing nature of students presenting for education...
View ArticleThe Mandate to Demonstrate Value in Higher Education
By Peter Fenner, PhD RISING TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION CHALLENGE Bob Dylan’s refrain, “The Times They are A-Changing,” has always been valid. For higher education today, it is more intense and fraught...
View ArticleThe Delusion of Understanding, the Illusion of Power: Numbers
Every Figure Has a Story By Susan Coia Gailey, Founder, Data-Based Institutional Research, Assessment & Reporting Systems As an institutional leader you need numbers, right? You need numbers and...
View ArticleChange Management and the Threat of Traditions in the University Environment
No One Welcomes Change Except a Wet Baby A simple truth magnified in many institutional settings but even more evident in the cultures that predominate in university settings. Academics are creatures...
View ArticleThe Importance of Being Driven by Data in Higher Education
Costs of education, loan details, merit-based vs. need-based aid, loan default rates, graduation rates, learning outcomes, starting salaries, and employment in one’s major—these are figures that are...
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“The hottest rings of Hell… are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis do nothing.” Thus goes President Kennedy’s quote of Dante’s Inferno, and currently so goes much of higher...
View ArticleTaking Up the Challenge of Change in the University Environment
No one welcomes change—a simple truth magnified in many institutional settings, but even more evident in the cultures that predominate in university settings. Academics are creatures of traditions such...
View ArticleThe Mandate to Demonstrate Value in Higher Education
Bob Dylan’s refrain, “The Times They are A-Changing,” has always been valid. For higher education today, it is more intense and fraught with peril than ever before. Scrutiny and financial pressure...
View ArticleThe Delusion of Understanding, the Illusion of Power: Numbers
As an institutional leader you need numbers, right? You need numbers and figures to make enlightened decisions and to develop effective policies. More broadly, you need data to inform strategic plans...
View ArticleChange Management and the Threat of Traditions in the University Environment
No one welcomes change but a wet baby. A simple truth magnified in many institutional settings but even more evident in the cultures that predominate in university settings. The post Change Management...
View ArticleChallenges of Changing Student Demographics – is Higher Education Leadership...
Never before have campuses been asked to deal with such a diverse and sometimes challenged influx. Several factors create this challenge; including the growth in enrollment of students who represent...
View ArticleThe Changing Challenges of Change
Academics are creatures of traditions such as tenure, rank, “super-equality” of deans among the faculty, and governance structures that baffle outsiders. But the traditions that have served...
View ArticleLooking Back to Look Ahead
Excerpt from “Margins and Missions… Not Moonshots: Pathways to Better U.S. Higher Education” Library of the Future. Knowledge acquisition and transmission has gone through a parallel process to what we...
View Article“Un-quo” the Status Quo
Higher education sector stands at a crossroads between our distinctive past and an uncertain future. The current situation is analogous to other industries, such as healthcare, telecommunications, and...
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