Year: 2021

Classroom Innovation

5 ways a flexible academic structure increases equity

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The academic structure at most higher-ed institutions makes access challenging, and works again equity goals--here's how to improve it
The structures in place at most universities, designed around constructs of the distant past, are at best constraining for this population and at worst create an inequity of…
Student Success & Well-Being

Why a board portal is key for boards and leadership teams

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Even before COVID, leveraging tech and using tools like a board portal cut down on wasted time
Many college boards and staff have had to deal with fundamental institutional challenges, including misplaced focus and prioritization and a lack of clarity around distinct roles and responsibilities.
Campus Leadership

3 major post-COVID changes in higher education

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COVID presented challenges for higher education, but it also opened up new ways of teaching and learning—what’s next for higher ed?
This global pandemic has accelerated the fires of change. Wise institutions and administrators will look to the horizon of opportunity ahead and use it as an impetus for…
Campus Leadership

Higher ed’s 2021 imperatives: Accessibility, delivery, affordability

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Higher-ed leaders must take the lessons they learned in 2020 and ensure that education is accessible and sustainable for all students
As we look back at 2020, we consider how this defining time in our lives will change higher education – and those who have access to it –…
Campus Leadership

How tech helps beat campus parking woes

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Smart parking is within reach for institutions-parking guidance technology is streamlining campus parking management
Today, colleges and universities can take a more streamlined approach to parking guidance. A simplified parking guidance system that leverages the latest advancements in vision and machine learning-based…
Digital Innovation

Why do adult learners return to college?

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The answer around adult learners and their the decision to return to college is more complex than higher ed leaders' data suggest
Higher education leaders love to segment their student population by different categories. A popular one is to categorize adult learners by their motivation for returning to school. Marketers…
Classroom Innovation

How one instructor made remote chemistry instruction engaging

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A chemistry instructor turns to interactive flat-panel technology to engage students during remote learning mandates
Like so many institutions, Berkeley was compelled to transition to 100 percent remote learning. On very short notice, we faced the prospect of delivering the same high level…