By Nicole Ifill - EvoLLLution. With the understanding that most first-time students are enrolling in sub-baccalaureate certificate and associate degree programs, more attention must be paid to how to improve transfer pathways and completion rates in these areas. More...
Differentiation Through Diversification: Dual Degrees in the Business Education Market
By Diane Miller - EvoLLLution. International dual-degree programs provide business schools the opportunity to really stand out to employers and, by extension, prospective students, but there are significant challenges in managing these unique programs. More...
Providing Alternative Pathways to “15 to Finish”
By Karen Stout - EvoLLLution. Though the 15-to-Finish concept has merits in concept, the reality is that today’s non-traditional students are already stretched and require instead greater effort from institutional leaders and postsecondary decision-makers to help create an environment that supports their success. More...
Assessing the Impact of Emerging Credentials
By Daniel Szpiro - EvoLLLution. When it comes to professional education, many of today’s students are looking for flexibility, competency and recognition in the workforce from their programming. When Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers and other unaccredited education providers emerged on the scene and began offering their own microcredentials, college and university leaders prepared for the worst. Some began introducing innovative credentials of their own. More...
Three Steps to Improving Institutional Business Processes
By Jackie Anderson - EvoLLLution. Business processes play a critical role in shaping a student’s experience at their higher education institution, so institutions need to commit adequate resources—both human and financial—to ensuring they are operating as efficiently and effectively as possible. More...
Flexibility and Transparency Central to Improving Faculty-Administration Relations
By Gerardo M. González - EvoLLLution. As administrators have been put under greater pressure to begin managing their institutions like businesses, relations between faculty and administration have become fraught. More...
Cultivating Leadership in Lifelong Learning Institutes: A Narrow Bridge
By Avi Bernstein - EvoLLLution. Managing a unit staffed by volunteers can present significant challenges for university leaders, but by taking some simple steps it’s possible to build a model that works in the long run. More...
Netflix and Higher Education: Leverage, Leadership and Talent Development
By Chris LaBelle - EvoLLLution. Institutional leaders need to take note of the levers Netflix has used to dominate its marketplace and apply some of that business’s key lessons to the postsecondary space. More...
Four Levers for Scaling Higher Education
By Elisabeth Rees Johnstone - EvoLLLution. In order to successfully scale, every institutional leader must understand the importance of – and have in place – their Purpose, Prospects, Programming and Partnerships levers. More...
Identifying and Overcoming the Three Central Challenges for Liberal Arts Colleges
By Brian Williams - EvoLLLution. Though the challenges for smaller liberal arts colleges are clear, the solutions to these challenges are more contextual and harder to pin down for each institution. More...