Higher Ed Connects: Leadership

MAY 15, 2020

Whether you disagree with a policy, the way your management handled an issue, or how your co-worker communicated with you about a project, there will always come a time when you don’t see eye to eye with someone you work with. If you wait days or weeks to give feedback, avoiding the issue will only lead to more problems.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

EdSurge’s Daniel Mollencamp has published a piece called “ What a Homework Help Site’s Move to Host Open Educational Resources Could Mean ” about Lumen Learning’s deal with Course Hero to transfer hosting of those OER textbooks from Lumen’s site to Course Hero’s. ” This is where things get messy.

IT 52

IT Education Faculty Administration 52

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Some may favor, for example, reading a print book outside surrounded by the Northeast Kingdom’s live audio of spring peepers. But its botched announcement, in which “all-digital” is a misnomer, failed to recognize students’ and professors’ emotional attachment to print books.

Libraries 119

Libraries IT Athletics and Campus Recreation Computers and Informational Technology 119

The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs. They believe that college is worth the cost.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Data-Driven Analysis of Needs and Equity Issues: Leverage data analytics to understand and address the needs of the student population, particularly focusing on areas of inequity. This plan should be developed with input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and community partners.

Enrollment Management 52

Enrollment Management Management Marketing and Communication Services Recruitment 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

Research shows that students who must incur debt to attend college have lower GPAs, more health issues both before and after graduation, are less likely to buy a house, will get married and have children later in life, are less likely to start a business, and are less entrepreneurial. Just read the book. It’s a better return on time.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Education Management Consulting 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

Higher Education 64

Higher Education Consulting Financial Aid Development and Fund Raising 64

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: University of Venus As someone who worked as a writing center administrator and now coaches faculty writers, I’ve consumed more academic writing advice than the average bear. The book I wrote and submitted during this period is a blurry thing to me, and I’m fearful of my reader reports.

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Faculty Media Administration IT 101

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

“We want our universities to be marketplaces of ideas where issues that are difficult can be discussed rigorously, passionately, but in a civil manner,” he told Inside Higher Ed. Student protests, especially of conservative speakers, continue to make the news. ” He’s not the only higher ed leader in the U.S.

Development and Fund Raising 98

Development and Fund Raising Social Justice Media Faculty 98

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

This post’s title comes, of course from a 1693 treatise published by the Puritan Divine Cotton Mather, subtitled “Observations As well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils.” They are cultural, demographic, economic, historical, and sociological.

Higher Education 104

Higher Education Research Social Justice Education 104

Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

It wasn’t an auspicious start to the new semester—at least from my perspective as a humanities scholar who believes that our job is to help students acquire the messy skills of information collection, critical evaluation and meaningful synthesizing. Historically, we’ve tried to achieve this through the essay form.

Development and Fund Raising 101

Development and Fund Raising IT Education Faculty 101

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

He’d been planning to write a book about how small groups of people can move governments around the world, and he thought the Carr Center could be a good base from which to pursue this project. But he didn’t expect the news he got two weeks later: his yearlong fellowship had been rejected. Undue Criticism?

Government 117

Government Nonprofit Organizations Faculty Recruitment 117

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Other issues in the news will include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Complex issues Dr. Valerie Kinloch, president of Johnson C. Financial issues, along with enrollment, retention and graduation, will be newsworthy also. Bonner has his own book series with Routledge, titled Diverse Faculty in the Academy.

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