By Barbara McFadden Allen, Ruth Watkins and Robin Kaler. In a hypothetical example, Barbara McFadden Allen, Ruth Watkins and Robin Kaler explore why presidents should become educated about fund-raising early in their careers. Read more...
How to Create and Sell Courses Online
Kirsten Drickey provides some concrete advice for leveraging your teaching experience and subject matter expertise by teaching online courses beyond the academy. Read more...
Illustrating Career Readiness Competencies: Part II
Joseph Barber gives advice about how to demonstrate to employers specific job competencies: teamwork and collaboration, leadership and project management, professionalism and work ethic, and career management. Read more...
Business as Usual?
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. In the aftermath of the recent election, many people on campuses are feeling more stressed and burdened than usual. Kerry Ann Rockquemore suggests some positive ways to move forward. Read more...
Building a Diverse STEM Workforce
By Jennifer C. Danek and Marc Nivet. Colleges must put the right diversity practices in place to encourage students to pursue important fields like STEM and the biomedical sciences, write Jennifer C. Danek and Marc Nivet. Read more...
Stemming STEM Dropouts
By Smita Bakshi. Traditional textbooks and teaching resources in these vital fields are simply not as effective as we need them to be, argues Smita Bakshi. Read more...
Why Assessment Is a Waste of Time
By Erik Gilbert. Among other things, assessors routinely ignore standard design principles and practices that are considered essential in most valid research. Read more...
Why We Decided to Protect Our President
By Marsha Suggs Smith. Controversial decisions, late-night travel, explicit threats -- the president may have brushed them off, but as a governing board, we chose to look at them from a different perspective, writes Marsha Suggs Smith. Read more...
Cannabis and the Mission of Higher Education
By Jon Porter. Despite expanding legalization of recreational marijuana, regular cannabis use has the potential to adversely impact students’ personal happiness and productivity throughout college and for years to follow, says Jon Porter. Read more...
Brave New World
Scott McLemee delves into The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton, a study of how digital self-tracking is insinuating itself into every nook and cranny of human experience. Read more...