By Matt Reed. If you haven’t seen Elizabeth Lehfeldt’s piece in IHE about recruiting future administrators from among the faculty, check it out. She makes a solid case for talent-scouting among rising faculty to find folks with the talent and taste for management. More...
Inheritances
Institutional Memory
How the Place Works
By Matt Reed. Should every doctoral student take a class in higher education?
I’ll address programs geared towards preparing students for careers in academe. More...
The Politics of Parity
Friday Fragments - June 23, 2016
By Matt Reed. The New York Times ran an uncharacteristically good piece this week on steps that various community colleges are taking to improve student success rates. Its coverage of community colleges, to the extent that it exists, tends to be embarrassingly classist, so the fact that it published something substantially accurate is heartening. More...
End of Year Housekeeping for Communicators
By Teresa Valerio Parrot. We are a mere two weeks away from the end of the current fiscal year, which means it is an ideal time for our communications colleagues to take stock of the purchases incurred over the past year and those budgeted for the coming year and to complete a little bit of end of the year housekeeping. More...
Student-Generated Content for International Recruitment
By Megan Brenn-White. While it’s well accepted in student recruitment that the images, words, and voices of current students help prospects learn about your institution, this is particularly the case for international prospects. More...
A Higher Education June Dream
By Donna Lehmann. If you're feeling like me, you may not currently be in the mood to read about ways to optimize your search marketing or best practices in crisis communications. Not that I couldn't use some tips on either topic, but I seem to be suffering from professional development fatigue. More...
5 Lessons From Ken Starr’s TV Interview Debacle
By Kevin Anselmo. Here is a simple media training tip that I think my four-year-old son could grasp: don’t lie after you have already been caught in the act of disclosing the truth when asked a simple straightforward question. It’s not rocket science. More...