By Timothy Renick - EvoLLLution. At Georgia State University, we have seen profound demographic shifts in recent years. Due to the recession’s particularly hard impact on Atlanta and rapid shifts in the region’s population, we saw a doubling of the number of low-income and first-generation students enrolled at the university between 2007 and 2014. More...
Facing the Bear: Strengthening State Education Against All Odds
By Ellen Chaffee - EvoLLLution. How does a mostly rural, shrinking state with 1.3 million residents and a strained state budget sustain 15 public colleges and universities and 20 privates. More...
Trends in Post-Traditional Education: Tracking and Responding to Change
By Tina Grant - EvoLLLution. Although it can be argued that all higher education leaders need to monitor trends, it is imperative that those presently serving or seeking to serve the post-traditional student stay on top of the trends that are shaping and reshaping the higher education industry. More...
Place Still a Priority in the Digital Era
By Michael Meotti - EvoLLLution. Many people think that the continual improvement in digital communication means that geography matters less in the 21st century. That perspective couldn’t be more wrong. The vast majority of colleges and universities are place-based institutions whose futures are inextricably intertwined with that of the metro regions in which they are located. More...
Four Trends Changing the Face of Higher Education
By Vicki Brannock - EvoLLLution. Besides the changes in technology and student expectations in traditional college settings something else has changed: the demographics of the typical student. More...
Can Elite Institutions Serve Under-Served, Non-Traditional Students?
By Marybeth Gasman - EvoLLLution. The nation’s most selective—or what some would call elite—institutions have a long history of educating mainly wealthy, white men. This is changing, or at least the white and men part. Elite colleges and universities are slowly becoming more diverse in terms of race, ethnicity and gender, and they will surely continue this trend as the nation’s demographics change. More...
Meeting Global Demand: Private Industry Creating Pathways to Professional Development
By Sarab Atiyat - EvoLLLution. Private companies have the potential to become an integral source of providing education within the coding sector of the IT industry in Bangladesh because Bangladesh is currently a hub for outsourcing IT services to a worldwide market. More...
Transforming the College to Manage Enrollment Decline
By Steven Ender - EvoLLLution. It was an evolutionary thinking process. Starting back in 2009, we were facing the biggest recession in the country. Michigan was impacted more so than other states because we had been in a recession prior to 2009. More...
Comparisons of Online Versus Traditional Education Miss The Point
By Charles Dull - EvoLLLution. Eighteen years ago I began teaching online and was immediately flooded with warnings from education colleagues and associates: They will take all that is in your head and make it a computer program, students cannot engage online, it’s a flash in the pan fad, it’s a lower-quality product, it will last and eliminate faculty, it will only last because of easy access. On and on the warnings poured in. More...
Defining Instructional Technology: Key to Differentiation and Growth for Small Institutions
By Edward W. Finn III - EvoLLLution. For years, Information Technology (IT) and Instructional Technology were misconstrued as synonyms. The assumption was that an IT professional could seamlessly integrate technology into the classroom without the need to know anything about pedagogy. More...