By Barbara Fister. It’s always inspiring to learn about new research from scholars who share their discoveries with excitement and passion at the best conferences. I had this experience last week. What was unusual was that the researchers were students just a few weeks into their first college semester. And the venue was a great urban park. Read more...
By Paul Redfern. Last spring, Gettysburg College made the decision to use agile marketing as a framework for our planning after my colleague attended a session on this topic at the American Marketing Association Symposium on Higher Education. What she took away from that session changed the way our office planned, collaborated, and executed projects across the board. More...By David Baker. “A writer has many heads, all troubled,” wrote Jim Harrison, the acclaimed author and poet. He’s a lyrical novelist with a big heart and an even bigger appetite. He’s summered in Montana’s Paradise Valley for decades, with a winter home near the Mexican border. More...By Megan Brenn-White. The answer must be no, right? Wouldn’t creating special marketing just for international students imply that we’re somehow not a truly global institution?By Eric Sickler. Increased competition for prospective students means you need to stand out in the blur of the same-sounding, same-looking recruitment practices. More...By Donna Lehmann. I sometimes feel this way as a communications professional thinking about the vast stores of knowledge and expertise held in each of our institutions. Each lab and seminar, each scientist, philosopher, student, and alum is teeming with tantalizing content, and accessing it should be as effortless as scooping it up into one’s cupped hands. More...By Kristine Maloney. There was good news out of the American Press Institute and Media Insight Project recently that showed most Millennials aren’t as disengaged with the news of the world as the generational stereotypes suggest. More...
By Julie R. Enszer. The year of my failure, as I have come to think of it, is shaping up quite well. If that sentence seems contradictory, let me explain. I am in the midst of the year of my failure because I do not have an academic job. I failed to secure academic employment for the entire year. It is, therefore, the year of my failure. More...
By Itir Toksöz. As summer draws to a close, here I am sitting on the balcony of a small hotel on the Greek island of Lesvos, facing the Aegean Sea. At 10:30 am, on this end of the summer day, despite the thunderstorms that hit the region a few days ago, the weather is so hot that I sit in my bathing suit. More...
By Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe. Rhodes Scholarship selection committees occasionally open interviews with the question, “What is the world’s fight?” Since I entered the realm of fellowship advising, I make a point of asking myself the same question on a regular basis. More...
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