22 avril 2018
22 avril 2018
African universities are ignoring a rich, invaluable resource: their alumni
Universities across Africa are sitting on – and ignoring – a potential gold mine: their graduates. Research from the global North, where tracking and keeping in touch with alumni is common practice for universities, shows that this reaps huge benefits. More...
22 avril 2018
What Kenyan universities can do to expand social entrepreneurship
Universities are at the forefront of any country’s economic development efforts. They play an invaluable role in passing knowledge on to the next generation and creating new knowledge through research. Both these endeavours can set graduates up to contribute to their country’s growth. More...
22 avril 2018
UVenus Responds: "Badass Working Parents"
UVenus Associate Editor Gwendolyn Beetham recently started back to work after her too- short-because-we-live-in-the-U.S. parental leave. When she read the recent Maclean’s article “The Problem With the Badass-Working-Parent Meme” it resonated. More...
22 avril 2018
Higher Ed Innovation Weekly Roundup 4.2.18
March has come and gone. New England was hit with snow storm after snow storm and somewhere in there I flew to DC and back for the annual A.C.E. meeting. As always, I walked away inspired and filled with gratitude. Some highlights below and a new report on financial aid. More...
22 avril 2018
Too Big to Marginalize: Higher Education’s Private Sector
Private institutions enroll one in three of the world’s higher education students. By 2010 private enrollment reached 57 million, today surely pushing toward 70 million. With release of the first-ever comprehensive global private-public dataset on higher education, interested parties can now see not only the overall worldwide private reality but also its regional and country configurations; they can furthermore see numerous details about the dataset and its organization (http://www.prophe.org/en/global-data/). More...
22 avril 2018
World-Class Universities in a Post-Truth World
Post-truth: “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief". More...
22 avril 2018
Ethiopia: A Transparent Approach to University President Selection
While the introduction of a new processes is one step forward toward a more accountable institutional system, its effectiveness depends on parallel reforms in the governance structure. More...
22 avril 2018
Hosting Diversity or Embracing It?
Diversity is a key issue for most colleges and universities today—how to achieve it, how to manage it. While listening to a report on NPR about Purdue’s acquisition of Kaplan University’s online learning platform, it struck me that generational diversity should be added to the list of the kinds of diversity that universities should value. More...
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