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By Amy Levine - EvoLLLution. This time of year in Washington DC brings not just chilly temperatures but also a market full of professionals (our potential students!) ready to focus on themselves and advance professionally. For new product planning on the staff side, this is our prime time. More...

By Lenore Rodicio - EvoLLLution. In early 2015, President Barack Obama gave a speech expressing his desire to take the Tennessee Promise project nationwide with America’s College Promise, a proposal that would grant free access to community colleges. The proposal has met with a great deal of excitement, and most of the discussion around America’s College Promise has been centered on the potential impact on the economy, the willingness of states to collaborate and the feasibility at a federal level. More...

By Rebecca Wyke - EvoLLLution. Across the United States, public university systems are being forced to re-evaluate their traditional approaches to doing business. Significant shifts in market forces have made this critical to the long-term viability of public institutions. More...

By Thomas Cavanagh - EvoLLLution. Higher education institutions are under pressure to diversify their offerings in order to serve a wider range of students through more flexible and personalized approaches. Online learning has grown as a significant pathway for institutions to widen their scope of offerings and their student demographic, but further innovation is needed in the space to create truly rich learning opportunities for students. More...

By Regina Smick-Attisano - EvoLLLution. Colleges and universities are constantly looking for ways to enrich their portfolio of offerings. The push from community college systems across the United States to offer bachelor degrees has created a stir across the industry. A transformation that is happening more quietly is that a growing number of four-year universities are offering associate degree programs. More...

By Andrew Kelly - EvoLLLution. 2014 was a busy year in higher education policy, and 2015 seems primed to bring even greater attention to the sector. So, what should higher ed leaders and wonks be paying attention to in 2015? Here are three things I’ll be watching. More...

By Tracy Schroeder - EvoLLLution. In recent years, higher education leaders have become acutely aware of the importance of management efficiency, and have started to notice the effects of aging legacy ERP systems on their effectiveness and bottom line. These decades-old systems are difficult for institutions to manage and expensive to sustain, leading institutional IT leaders to look to the future. More...

By Christine Blakney - EvoLLLution. Today’s student population has transformed significantly over the past decade. Today’s students have a huge range of choice when it comes to choosing an institution, and their customer experience with a given college or university can prove to be a differentiator. They expect immediacy and technology-enhanced services, and institutions need to serve that new expectation if they are to succeed. More...

By Judith Potter - EvoLLLution. Continuing Education (CE) units often struggle to adequately define their role within the larger higher education institution. Often, main campus leaders will judge the work of the CE unit exclusively by revenue and enrollments. CE leaders, however, see their mission of creating access to high-quality learning opportunities for non-traditional learners as integral to the main mission of the institution. In this Q&A, Judith Potter discusses the true role of CE at research-intensive universities, and sheds some light on how CE leaders can help senior institutional leaders understand the work they do. More...

By Shaul Kuper - EvoLLLution. In 2012, everyone across higher education was talking about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). From deans to presidents, everyone I spoke with about online education, non-traditional students and their institution’s goals for bringing the former to the latter mentioned the acronym “MOOC” at some point. Over the past two years the hype around MOOCs has faded. More...