One of the most challenging issues new leaders face when following those who've held the same position for years is dealing with contradictory messages about change, writes Judith S. White. More...
26 janvier 2018
Thriving While Succeeding a Long-Serving Leader
7 Resolutions Job Seekers Can Make in the New Year
Graduate students and other job seekers planning to go on the academic job market in 2018 might be thinking that the job search season, which typically begins in the fall of each year, is still a long way off. More...
Extra, Extra, Read All About It
Years ago, if colleagues asked if I offered extra credit, my responses were some version of “Absolutely not, never, and anyway it’s fake; it’s like grading on a curve; this is college, not high school; let the students do the real work; and furthermore, why do we need to create extra work for ourselves?” More...
Collaborating to Find Solutions Out of Remediation
We should better inform students about the placement exam and allow them to retest after they've received more instruction, write W. Theory Thompson and Danae McLeod. More...
Rethinking Remediation
A significant number of students who begin college with two to four semesters of required, noncredit remedial courses never make it to the first for-credit gateway course, according to Complete College America, but instead drop out. More...
Safeguarding Academic Freedom and a College Community
Joanne Berger-Sweeney cites the lessons learned from a controversy at her institution involving race, politics, campus safety and competing claims of ownership over who has the right to speak and what they can and cannot say. More...
Recovering Our Lost Public Esteem
Higher education leaders across the country are engaging in much hand-wringing over declining public confidence in colleges and universities. More...
10 Key Points About Active Learning
For well over a decade, I’ve been exploring the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory and studies of pedagogy, as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to do with techniques and methods for meaningful, engaged classrooms. More...
Not Just a Case Study
Susan Henking shares some of the fundamental lessons she learned in merging the college she led with another. More...
Lazy Rivers and Learning
Rather than investing in expensive building projects that can create financial and public-relations risks, writes Loren Rullman, institutions should focus on the educational case for facility development. More...
