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17 juillet 2016

Should College Students Be Required to Vote?

By Matt Reed. Every so often I read an argument that’s delightfully wrong. It’s way off-base, but it’s so earnest and well-intended that I can’t help but engage. This is one of those. More...

17 juillet 2016

Ask the Administrator: Making the Leap from a For-Profit

By Matt Reed. For-profits are corporations. They operate largely on a corporate model, which assumes employment-at-will and relatively fast turnover. More...

17 juillet 2016

Welfare Reform, For-Profit Education, and Community Colleges

By Matt Reed. Did welfare reform lead to a rise in for-profit education?
I hadn’t connected those dots before, but in retrospect, should have. More...

17 juillet 2016

Simplify, Simplify

By Matt Reed. Very smart people sometimes have trouble getting out of their own way.
One of my first acts at Brookdale was to take a form that faculty were required to fill out annually reporting on their professional development activities and reduce it from about six pages to one, consisting of exactly two questions. More...

17 juillet 2016

The Whole and the Sum of Its Parts

By Matt Reed. I’m always fascinated when the whole doesn’t equal the sum of its parts. It’s the kind of finding that suggests new questions. More...

17 juillet 2016

Sounds Wrong, But…

By Matt Reed. A new piece in Liberal Education claims that for-profits caused the rise in the use of adjuncts. Did they. More...

17 juillet 2016

Listening at the Table

By Matt Reed. On Thursday I got to attend a reception for new high school grads who received college scholarships from the foundation associated with a local bank. It was one of those circular-table receptions at which each table includes a few parents with students, a benefactor, and someone who works at the college. My job was to greet the students and parents, and to help them feel welcome. More...

17 juillet 2016

“Need Blind”

By Matt Reed. Community colleges practice need-blind admissions. It would be lovely if we’d get credit for it. More...

17 juillet 2016

No Strategy: Work Smarter

By Tim Jones. It feels good to agree when someone asks for your help with a project or marketing initiative. When you say yes, you fill coworkers with joy, relief, and a sense that their request is valuable. At the same time, you get to be the agreeable, collaborative, easy-to-work with, always-willing to-help colleague who never causes conflict. Sometimes, that’s the perfect outcome. Everyone wins. More...

17 juillet 2016

10 Ways to Bolster Crisis Communications Planning

By Jamie Kelly. There is never downtime in higher education—there’s simply a shift in priorities. The summer months provide an opportunity for strategic planning, reporting, advancing new initiatives and connecting more deeply with colleagues. It’s also a valuable time to reflect on crisis communications. We know crises can occur at any time, but the summer months may provide a reprieve as the campus activity slows down during this period. More...

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