By Victoria Berling - EvoLLLution. Recently, Northern Kentucky University surveyed inquirers who decided not to enter our adult programs to glean how we can be more responsive to their needs. We were surprised to find that 80 percent of respondents had not enrolled elsewhere. More...
05 novembre 2015
Beyond Remediation: Using Technology to Maximize Retention and Completion
By Jason Bryer - EvoLLLution. Driving the completion and attainment rate nationally is of critical importance to the health of the economy, but accomplishing this has been challenging for higher education institutions. It requires them to attract and serve new groups of students who may not be as academically prepared as colleges and universities would like, and while remedial programming helps the most motivated of those learners it often leads to stop-outs and drop-outs. More...
Critical Changes Needed to Transform the Student Experience for Non-Traditional Learners
By Darlene Brown - EvoLLLution. There are myriad challenges that millions of students are confronted with when attempting to pursue higher education to ensure their future success. This is something I have become very aware of having worked closely with students over the past decade. More...
Fostering Belonging Key to Non-Traditional Student Success
By Ashley Gleiman - EvoLLLution. Non-traditional students are one of the most researched and discussed populations in higher education today. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in order for someone to be defined as a non-traditional student, the student must meet at least one of the following characteristics. More...
Four Steps to Improving Retention Through Engagement
By Terianne Sousa - EvoLLLution. The National Survey for Student Engagement recently found that many leading institutions are prioritizing student engagement as part of their retention strategies. For these schools, engagement is a campus-wide effort, and it encompasses both faculty’s pedagogical strategies and students’ attitudes about their educational careers. More...
Overcoming the Five Most Significant Roadblocks Facing Non-Traditional Students
Smoothing the Journey for Adult Learners: Helpful Strategies for Higher Ed Institutions
By Barry Thomas - EvoLLLution. As mentioned in my last article, Adult Learners and Their College Experience: Challenges Colleges Face, the trend of more adult learners entering colleges is here and present on American college campuses. More...
World-Class Universities in the Great Recession: Who’s Winning the Funding Game?
By . Governments always face a choice between access and excellence: does it make more sense to focus resources on a few institutions in order to make them more “world-class”, or does it make sense to build capacity more widely and increase access? During hard times, these choices become more acute. In the US, for instance, the 1970s were a time when persistent federal budget deficits as a result of the Vietnam War, combined with a period of slow growth, caused higher education budgets to contract. More...
How Canadian Universities Got Both Big and Rich
By . Earlier this week, I gave a speech in Shanghai on whether countries are choosing to focus higher education spending on top institutions as a response to the scarcity of funds since the start of the global financial crisis. I thought some of you might be interested in this, so over the next two days I’ll be sharing some of the data from that presentation. The story I want to tell today is about how exceptional the Canadian story has been among the top countries in higher education. More...
Scientists vs. Universities: Does War Lie Ahead?
By . Because universities lobby for science money, there is often a naïve assumption that the interests of scientists (academic ones, anyway) and those of universities are aligned. But they are not. In Canada, there is sometimes broad agreement about what to push for (the Canada Foundation for Innovation in the late 1990s was an example), but I would argue that today the interests of scientists and those of universities are about as far apart as they have been at any time in my adult life. More...
Pure vs. Applied Science and an Easy Win for the Liberals
By . OK, y’all probably know that I’m not particularly a fan of the terms “pure” and “applied” science (outside of physics and cosmology, most science is applied, to some extent), with “pure” science being a post-World War II political construct. Long-time readers will also know that I am generally unimpressed with the whole “any move away from ‘pure’ science is a step towards barbarism” cant: major science powers can and do spend a heck of a lot of money on applied research (Fraunhofer institute, anyone?). But that doesn’t mean something isn’t seriously out of whack in Canadian science. More...
