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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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How Post University’s Career Readiness Model Can Help Not-For-Profit Universities and Graduates: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 172 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Camille Dumont

The Change Leader, Inc.

On the academic side, students now have conversations with admissions and advising as soon as they are accepted to determine what major or career they might be interested in. So they’re then put into their foundation course, which is CTC 101 or College to Career. One of the most important things is to get the students there.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

Upon graduation, I started immediately after commencement at a small university in Kentucky as an admissions officer and completed my master’s in a relativity short amount of time while working. The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college.

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Teachers as Transformers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But as access expanded, so, too did the stratification of higher education and the depersonalization of the college experience. A college education increasingly became the primary route to a secure, middle-class income, but this in turn led to soaring student and parental debt.