Online Learning

The right online learning experience will boost retention and engagement

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Engagement and retention are among the most unique and stubborn challenges for online learning, but they are both achievable.
A recent National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report reveals that post-secondary enrollment continues to decline. Undergraduate enrollment alone saw a 9.4 percent drop from Spring 2020, resulting in…
Recruitment & Enrollment

How registrars are essential for student engagement

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Registrars have the unique ability to influence institution-wide policies and practices related to academic affairs and student success.
Seventy-nine percent of respondents in a survey agreed registrars should be actively involved in student engagement across the student life cycle, and 88 percent indicated the same for…
Recruitment & Enrollment

How higher ed can turn the tide on enrollment and retention

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College enrollment and then retaining students requires an in-depth, data-driven look at the needs of the individual learner.
The recent decline in college enrollment across the country cannot be pinned on a single factor, but rather it represents the accumulated effect of multiple interconnected problems.
Classroom Innovation

AI is the future–is your school ready to teach it?

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Schools focused on computer science and engineering should take steps to prepare to teach AI, robotics, and automation
Artificial intelligence is one of the most important and transformative technologies of our time. From assisting pathologists and discovering new drugs to recommending products and automating entire factories,…
Faculty & Staff

3 ways to improve time management in an administrative role

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As a higher education administrator, leveraging innovative technology and resources is essential to productivity and time management.
As an administrator, you already know that you have to master organizational, time management, and efficiency skills. And if you're in higher education you're having to do that…
Faculty & Staff

Faculty elitism is hurting your institution

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Here are 3 simple ways you can begin turning the tide and creating a more equitable workplace as you eliminate faculty elitism.
The COVID19 pandemic upended professional life and caused us to evaluate all aspects of the workplace. There are some superficial changes, such as routine health screenings.
Policy

Welcome to middle age, Title IX–good to be here with you

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Here are 2 things colleges can do to reframe their thinking around Title IX and continue to move forward in a positive direction
I was born six months after Title IX was enacted; I have not known a world in which this civil rights legislation did not exist. I think of…