Three prominent higher education associations serving almost 2,500 institutions have issued a joint statement calling on colleges to commit to using data and analytics “to make better strategic decisions.” The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), Educause and the National Association of College and University Business Officers say data can be used to improve recruitment, student outcomes, institutional efficiency and cost-cutting efforts. They urge quick action. More...
New Free Resource for Leading Change: The Science Education Initiative Handbook
Many departments and universities are trying to spread the effective use of research-based instructional practices among their faculty, such as active learning and effective course assessments. More...
Report: 40% of student success initiatives don’t help retention
Only 60% of student services positively impact student retention, according to a new analysis of more than 1,000 initiatives across 55 colleges from Civitas Learning. More...
Five Easy Ways To Engage In Lifelong Learning
The only way to grow as a person is to continue learning. So, learning shouldn’t stop when you finish high school or graduate college — it should be a part of your everyday life. More...
Why colleges could start closing nationwide
For millions of students, Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer vacation and the start of another school year. But for the first time in 185 years, there will be no fall semester at Green Mountain College in western Vermont. More...
3 Questions for Sasha Thackaberry, Vice Provost of Digital and Continuing Education at LSU
We are actually building something that has never been built before. We’re creating a program at both a flagship and a system that has a wide portfolio of programs that are stackable, incorporate prior learning assessment options, and have a pathway for every student. More...
How Harvard’s Most Popular Class Became a ‘Lifestyle’
Traditionalists may look aghast at CS50, Harvard’s introductory computer science course, which last year became the school’s most popular course of any kind. More...
With lifelong learning, you too can join the digital workplace
As Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explained in the 2018 Future of Jobs report, it’s critical that individuals take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning. More...
How They (Online Graduate Programs) Get YouHow They (Online Graduate Programs) Get You
Eager to attract students to new online graduate programs, selective universities have adopted surprisingly aggressive telemarketing practices. Many online graduate programs from the nation’s top universities promise an experience that’s nearly indistinguishable from studying on campus. More...
Americans have $1.5 trillion in student loans. Is it worth it?
Other than mortgages, the highest amount of debt is in student loans. According to the Federal Reserve Bank in 2018, the average monthly payment of students loans was $200-$300. More than 44 million Americans owed about $1.5 trillion on student loans at the end of March 2019, more than twice what they owed a decade earlier. More...