Clearer Labor Market Links Critical to Meeting Student Expectations
By Peter Stokes - EvoLLLution. Meeting student expectations has become increasingly important for today’s higher education leaders, as the marketplace has grown in competitiveness and as students have become more focused on their position as consumers. More...
Creating Value by Meeting Service and Outcome Demands
By Cathy Sandeen - EvoLLLution. Outside the classroom, students are customers above all else. They have very specific expectations of how they want to interact with the institution, shaped largely by their experience as customers in other industries. More...
Data Analysis and Our Capacity to Measure Higher Ed’s Value
By Kristin Kennedy - EvoLLLution. I went to college and I had a great experience. I went to a college in another state, my parents paid for almost all of it and I basically came out of college with very little debt—quite a success story by today’s standards, it would seem. More...
Honing a Spectrum of Learner Access
By Dave King - EvoLLLution. Creating access for learners across a seamless spectrum of learning opportunities is a valuable exercise for higher education leaders. It allows us to better understand the different populations accessing our institutions. More...
Meeting and Managing the Expectations of Today’s Students
By Lisa R. Braverman - EvoLLLution. Most of us who work in colleges and universities in the U.S. believe that we are proficient at understanding and meeting the expectations of our students, when the record shows that we are, to the contrary, often less than successful at it. More...
Higher Education Maintains High Earnings Promise for Graduates
By Anthony Carnevale - EvoLLLution. Today’s higher education student demographic is significantly different than it was even 20 years ago. As the number of non-traditional students grows, some of the traditional value propositions of higher education—the capacity to develop an educated citizenry and create lifelong contact networks—have taken a back seat to more quantifiable measures of value, future earning potential chief among them. More...
Academic Success Coaching and Creating Return on Investment for Adult Students
By Dezi Waterhouse - EvoLLLution. Academic success coaching has found its way into university and community college settings over the past decade as a supplement to the regular advising structures that that were previously in place. The main purpose of this “expansion” is to enhance a support system for the needs of today’s postsecondary student. More...
ROI and the Post-Traditional Learner
By John Ebersole - EvoLLLution. Post-traditional learners are growing in numbers across the higher education space and are forcing higher education institutions to reconsider their approach to education and to student service. At the root of this change are some fundamental differences between the post-traditional student and the 18- to 22-year-old learner many institutions are more used to serving. More...
Taking the Lead: How IT Delivers the Experience Students Expect
By Joanna Young - EvoLLLution. If the past decade has taught higher education leaders anything, it is that they are no longer immune from transformations happening around them. More...
Four Ways Institutional IT Creates Value for Students
By Paige Francis - EvoLLLution. How can a university’s IT department help to create ROI for students, especially when it comes to improving the student experience. More...
