Academics often wonder about the future of higher education as technological changes arrive at an increasingly fast rate. More...

The sociocultural lines drawn between college and university campuses, the communities within which they reside, and society at large are never brightly drawn. This is most certainly true for the national conversation taking shape on what it means to be Black, brown and poor in America (as well as what it means to be Muslim, gay, an immigrant . . . the list goes on). More...

The frantic phone call came in to my office mid-morning from the university’s chief public safety officer. More...

“The results are in, folks. Faculty development does have an incredible effect on student success.”
That takeaway came from Linda Nilson, a panelist on Sunday afternoon’s lively panel on the role faculty development can play in improving student success in higher education. More...

It was 2001, and Florida had a serious higher education capacity problem. One major indicator: the state hired 32,000 new teachers, but its colleges and universities combined to graduate 3,200 students with bachelor’s degrees in education that year and only about 1,600 of them actually went on to teach. More...

Presidents of three ACE member institutions outlined their efforts to reformulate global learning to reach more students and make students’ own diverse cultural backgrounds part of the learning journey, during ACE2016 on Monday. More...

As resources for higher education are decreasing and the pressure to keep tuition low is increasing, colleges and universities are looking for ways to spend more efficiently and effectively. More...

A session at ACE2016 focused on how to create and sustain lasting higher education partnerships between U.S. and Chinese institutions. More...

ACE’s Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement and Banco Santander-Universia announced the launch of a new Observatory for U.S.-Mexico Higher Education during a dinner sponsored by Banco Santander-Universia for some 40 presidents from Mexico who are attending ACE2016. More...

Years ago, when I was still in my 20s and a graduate student in linguistics at the City University of New York, I decided it was time to embark on the journey of what I pictured would be my life’s career: teaching post-secondary students and making a name for myself as a researcher (who was well published!) in the academy. More...