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7 juillet 2013

Of Temps and Trainees

By Matt Reed. Now that a variation on the academic model has made its way throughout the economy, colleges are getting blamed for not preparing students for jobs. Yes, there’s always room for improvement, but at a basic level this is a misunderstanding. The jobs have changed. All of us -- higher ed, the broader public, political leadership -- are still coming to terms with that. Community colleges are part of a solution, but the issue is far, far larger. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

U.S. University Admissions in the Good Old Days

By Liz Reisberg. When I first worked in university admissions more than 30 years ago the word “marketing” was completely taboo. This is not to imply that admissions officers didn’t promote their institution. Admissions officers have been visiting high schools and making presentations in hotels for decades; it just wasn’t considered “marketing.” “Marketing” was considered much too commercial, too crass for higher education. Today, most admissions offices have a marketing plan, marketing strategy, marketing budget, and marketing staff. Many hire public relations firms to define and distinguish their “brand” and to gain the preference of specific market segments. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Are We Focusing Too Much on The Tools?

By Eric Stoller. If you ask me about the need for a technology competency in student affairs, I have a lot to say on the topic. It's been something that I've been advocating for since I was a graduate student in 2004. In 2013, technology and student affairs is still a topic that is full of more questions than answers. On social media sites like Twitter and Facebook (as well as on several blogs, including this one), the conversation about technology and student affairs abounds. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Funding, Disclosure, and The EvoLLLution

ByJoshua Kim. A few weeks back I was asked to participate in an interview with the online site The EvoLLLution. I found the interview experience to be terrific, with the editor whom I worked with extremely knowledgeable about the higher ed sector. You can read (and listen to) the results of that interview - Online Learning Making Education Fungible for Non-Traditional Students - on The EvoLLLution site. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

The TechSmith Model

ByJoshua Kim. I've been a big fan of TechSmith's rapid authoring platforms for years. My institution has adopted Camtasia Relay as a simple audio/video screen recording / distribution system because the platform is elegant, robust, and comes with a licensing model that enables easy distribution throughout our community. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Working with Purpose

By Dayna Catropa. The work we do in higher education is mission-driven. However, even when the mission may seem obvious, it is important for leaders to continually articulate that mission and connect their team’s work to it. In short, emphasizing purpose is an important aspect of leadership that motivates teams to do their best work. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

A Brilliant Plan?

By Margaret Andrews. With all the talk about MOOCs – how more students can be taught by the best faculty, how they will increase access and reduce costs – someone has come up with an idea for how to save money in the administrative area. For the past few years, there have been a glut of articles lamenting the rise of college costs, many of them pointing to the rise of the administrative class in higher education as one of the main culprits. There have been articles in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Washington Monthly. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

Creative Writing Is Not a Fast Food Nation

By 5 Creative Writing Professors. Creative writing has its share of detractors, those who believe that the study of and teaching of creative writing produces deleterious effects for students and for literature. For example, in "Poetry Vs. Ambition," Donald Hall worries that invention exercises (writing warm-ups which help writers find their subject) in writing classrooms "reduce poetry to a parlor game," producing "McPoems" on assembly lines. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

'Watered Down' MOOC Bill Becomes Law In Florida

Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill into law last week to encourage the state's K-12 and higher education systems to use massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The law has narrower scope than early versions of the bill but its critics remain deeply concerned. Read more...

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7 juillet 2013

New Report on Measuring Loan Defaults

A report issued Tuesday by Education Sector, a Washington, D.C. think tank, examines the federal government's three-year cohort default rate for federal student loans as well as alternative ways to measure how many students fail to repay their debt. The report, "In Debt and In the Dark," argues that current publicly available information on loan defaults is incomplete and doesn't represent students' total risk of default. Read more...

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