By Pamela Mills-Senn. Course scheduling technology providers were asked: What are the biggest hurdles colleges face when trying to implement the scheduling options that students may want. More...By Pamela Mills-Senn. Students don’t quite run the show when it comes to course scheduling. But colleges and universities are striving to make it easier for them—with their ongoing juggle of work, family and school commitments. More...By John L. Gann, Jr. Names like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford are the academic equivalent of Rolex, Tiffany and Mercedes. Other schools have to market themselves. So more of them are advertising these days—but some, paradoxically, seem to do it without much use of what is presumably their stock in trade: expert knowledge. More...By Kylie Lacey. There is a lot of money to be had, but only a select group of elite athletic programs are reaping high financial rewards. Smaller institutions with less competitive athletics programs are left to scramble for what they can get—mere pennies in comparison. More...By Ray Bendici. GIS maps maps provide details about certain areas of campus—such as the exact length and location of streets and walkways, and the presence of potential hazards. They can also be stocked with limitless tiers of data—for instance, streets on one layer, buildings on a second, student distribution on the next, and high-crime areas on another. More...By Ray Bendici. Despite higher ed’s progress in reducing energy use and making facilities more sustainable, it turns out that the biggest factor in the drop has been due to a change from coal and oil to natural gas, a cleaner-burning fuel. More...By Theresa Sullivan Barger. How colleges are getting creative about energy supply to save money on heating and cooling, and to boost building comfort for occupants. More...By Theresa Sullivan Barger. What’s the biggest misconception administrators outside the facilities department tend to have related to heating and cooling campus buildings. More...By Douglas A. Hicks and Suzy M. Nelson. In recent months, students have confronted problems such as climate change, race relations, social class inequity and sexual violence with protests at colleges across the country. It’s a chaotic process, and how an administration responds to a protest is vitally important to a school’s ability to alleviate the issues that spark it. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
