By Steven Mintz. Higher education faces a perfect storm.
The product of low graduation rates, increases in tuition, mounting student debt, and employer dissatisfaction, this storm is placing institutions under enormous pressure to make college more affordable to middle-class families, cut time to degree, and ensure that graduates have real-world marketable skills. Read more...

By Steven Mintz and Michael Patrick Rutter. Where do students devote much of their time and intellectual energy? A common line you hear on admissions tours and in peppy brochureware suggests an answer: “Most students learn the most outside of the classroom.” Why such an outcome might not be measurable, the advent of enhanced / experience transcripts from places like Elon University) suggests it goes beyond marketing copy. Read more...

By Steven Mintz. Driving academic innovation is a truly wicked problem. There is the motivational challenge: Convincing stakeholders that there is a pressing problem – whether it’s student completion, student engagement, learning outcomes, workforce preparation, affordability, or tapping new revenue streams and markets – that needs to be solved, without diluting the quality of an education. Read more...

By Steven Mintz. The great challenge facing public higher education is to break through the iron triangle: Increasing affordability, quality, and student success all at once. Read more...

By Steven Mintz. Anyone who reads the vast, rapidly expanding literature on innovation in higher education will be struck by the pervasiveness of certain discourses and tropes.  Three stand out. Read more...