Why the regional Title IX proposal needs tweaking, but shows promise

Title IX sexual assault
Right now, campuses across the country are responding in broadly disparate manners to student allegations of sexual assault. The lack of consistency from campus to campus, and even…

Why combining assessments and LMS technology is essential

LMS assessments
Assessments are more than just measuring how well students are doing in particular subjects in school, and they can actually improve student learning. In fact, frequent assessments can…

Space: The final frontier in the search for full-pay students?

college tuition pay
In order to maximize net tuition revenue, higher education employs a high-price, high-discount model. But just as trees don’t grow to the sky, this strategy can’t work forever—the…

6 reasons why course visuals are a must for today’s college students

In education, visual communication is especially important, as 90 percent of all information transmitted to the brain is visual. Using technology to create visual educational content can set…

Trending: Students say digital payments key for college

digital payments
With the rising popularity of P2P (person-to-person) payments through sites such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, Zelle and Venmo, digital disbursements have become to millennials what cash and checks…

5 reasons why analytics tech is a game-changer for universities

analytics universities
When you have nearly 38,000 students enrolled in your university, the data challenges are formidable. At The University of Alabama, the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA)…

Hyperconvergence in campus IT-Why taking a software approach is best

HCI
New technologies often fundamentally change how IT procures and operates infrastructure and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is no exception. HCI is the combination of compute and storage into an…