By Caryn Meyers Fliegler. With strategic and data-driven efforts in place, institutions are building increasingly successful efforts to bring internationals to campus. More...

By Lauren Williams. Program touts full course-load to increase academic success and decrease debt.
West Virginia is the latest state to encourage college students to take 15 credits or more every semester so they can graduate on time. More...

By Ioanna Opidee. While video’s presence in higher learning is undoubtedly expanding, the frequency and extent to which it is being used varies widely—even within institutions. More...

By Paula V. Smith. A recent survey of 921 higher education leaders found a “conflicted” attitude toward comprehensive risk programs. Academic leaders say that ERM is an institutional priority, yet many of them don’t follow through. At Grinnell, we examined risks across the institution and found these seven methods of ERM can help a campus learn to engage with risk in productive and creative ways. More...

By Sherrie Negrea. Supporting local economic and civic projects is a central part of the mission for community colleges that rely on voter approval for funding. More...

By Caryn Meyers Fliegler. While the vast majority of international students adhere to high-quality practices when applying to U.S. higher education institutions, there is a real issue of those who don’t – and who take steps to game whatever systems are in place to gain access to an institution, misrepresenting themselves along the way. More...

By James Martin and James E. Samels. If “the medium is the message” as Marshall McLuhan so famously proclaimed in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, then what is the message of contemporary distributed learning? One can only wonder what McLuhan would say in 2014. Yet, as far back as 1967, McLuhan predicted that “the little red schoolhouse is already well on its way toward becoming the little round schoolhouse,” and importantly that the reach of the traditional classroom would expand to a “global village”. More...

By Rony Zarom. The education tide is shifting in favor of a new mobile paradigm as a way to ease students’ transition into the workplace.
According to a Marketing Charts study, today’s college student owns an average of seven mobile devices and spends nearly four hours a day using a smart phone. More...

By Tim Goral. A new book argues that colleges don’t do enough to promote post-graduate success.
When Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa published Academically Adrift in 2011, it exposed the shortcomings of undergraduate learning. More...