By Alexandra Logue - EvoLLLution. There is general agreement that more students need to graduate from college in the United States. The United States is currently only 14th in the world in the percentage of young adults with a college degree, and the number of jobs requiring a college degree has been increasing more than the supply of degree holders. More...
04 juillet 2016
Should College Students Assessed as Needing Remedial Algebra Take College-Level Statistics Instead?
Improving Pathways to Persistence and Success
By Anton Reece - EvoLLLution. As more and more focus—both inside and outside the academy—is placed on student outcomes, institutions need to invest more time and resources in retention and completion. More...
How to Ensure a Successful Transfer Transition: The Obstacles
By Heather Adams - EvoLLLution. The reality is that every student, every school, and every state is going to have a slightly different set of considerations and potential challenges when it comes to transfer students’ transition to a four-year university. More...
Ready to Launch: Re-Envisioning the Preparation of Students for Online Learning
By Joshua Steele - EvoLLLution. Online students have as much, if not more, need for an immersive orientation experience from their institution to familiarize them with the tools and processes of their coming academic venture, but such an experience is rarely offered. More...
Academic Advisers Who Make a Difference: Mentorship, Retention and the Road to Graduation
By Vyacheslav Khrapak - EvoLLLution. Higher education institutions can drive their retention and completion rates by investing in a robust academic advising infrastructure, helping them stand out to prospective students while following through on their mission. More...
Establishing a Transfer Culture: Facilitating Movement from Two- to Four-Year Higher Ed
By Juanita Chrysanthou - EvoLLLution. Probably the most frequent obstacle students from community colleges experience when transferring to a four-year institution is the lack of course articulation to a four-year institution, particularly the transferability of technical course credit and unfulfilled math requirements. More...
How to Ensure a Successful Transfer Transition: Four Solutions
By Heather Adams - EvoLLLution. Enabling a smooth transition for new transfer students can be a challenge for institutional leaders, but students and administrators need to work together to ensure they can overcome some of the standard obstacles that stand in the way of transfer student success. More...
MOOCs and the Global Democratization of Higher Education
By Anant Agarwal - EvoLLLution. MOOCs are more than freemium and glamor projects for universities. These offerings are creating unprecedented access to elite postsecondary programming for students both at home and abroad who would traditionally be unable to access such material. More...
Keeping the Promise and Going the Distance on College Transfer Reform
By Michele Siqueiros - EvoLLLution. California’s community college and CSU four-year campuses need to do much more to improve transfer pathways and support access and completion for more of California’s students. More...
How to Exercise Influence and Implement Ideas in Colleges and Universities
By Daniel Julius - EvoLLLution. Let’s begin with the question of leadership. While there are many theories of leadership and, no doubt, many different types of leaders, in my experience effective leaders engage in the following kinds of behaviors, activities and analyses. More...
