By Walter Rankin - EvoLLLution. This article starts with an assumption and an admission. The assumption is that there is a positive correlation between student engagement (in courses and through extracurricular and co-curricular activities), student success, and strong retention and graduation rates. More...
09 juillet 2015
Three Ways to Drive Student Engagement and Success
Institutional Strategies for MOOCs: Berklee’s Approach
By Debbie Cavalier - EvoLLLution. Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music is through the study and practice of contemporary music. More...
Receptiveness to Learning: Responsibilities of the Educator and the Student
By Steven Cooke - EvoLLLution. In many of the classes that I teach, I find a resistance to learning to be more and more common. While this usually fades with prompting and grading related to the demonstrated use of research, a few students don’t benefit from this prompting because they do not value the learning. More...
Four Lessons Learned From Working with At-Risk Students
By Timothy Renick - EvoLLLution. At Georgia State University, we have seen profound demographic shifts in recent years. Due to the recession’s particularly hard impact on Atlanta and rapid shifts in the region’s population, we saw a doubling of the number of low-income and first-generation students enrolled at the university between 2007 and 2014. More...
Facing the Bear: Strengthening State Education Against All Odds
By Ellen Chaffee - EvoLLLution. How does a mostly rural, shrinking state with 1.3 million residents and a strained state budget sustain 15 public colleges and universities and 20 privates. More...
Trends in Post-Traditional Education: Tracking and Responding to Change
By Tina Grant - EvoLLLution. Although it can be argued that all higher education leaders need to monitor trends, it is imperative that those presently serving or seeking to serve the post-traditional student stay on top of the trends that are shaping and reshaping the higher education industry. More...
Place Still a Priority in the Digital Era
By Michael Meotti - EvoLLLution. Many people think that the continual improvement in digital communication means that geography matters less in the 21st century. That perspective couldn’t be more wrong. The vast majority of colleges and universities are place-based institutions whose futures are inextricably intertwined with that of the metro regions in which they are located. More...
Four Trends Changing the Face of Higher Education
By Vicki Brannock - EvoLLLution. Besides the changes in technology and student expectations in traditional college settings something else has changed: the demographics of the typical student. More...
Can Elite Institutions Serve Under-Served, Non-Traditional Students?
By Marybeth Gasman - EvoLLLution. The nation’s most selective—or what some would call elite—institutions have a long history of educating mainly wealthy, white men. This is changing, or at least the white and men part. Elite colleges and universities are slowly becoming more diverse in terms of race, ethnicity and gender, and they will surely continue this trend as the nation’s demographics change. More...
