Laura Ascione
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Campus Leadership

13 strategic technologies to keep on your fall semester radar

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fall semester technologies
Technologies for planning and mapping students' educational plans, along with mobile app development, are among the top strategic technologies covered in EDUCAUSE's 2017 Integrated Planning for Advising and…
Campus Leadership

This admissions fiasco shows that predicting enrollment isn’t an exact science

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admissions enrollment science
A flood of students unexpectedly accepted admission offers. A University of California campus was caught off guard. Administrators scoured the files of the admitted and took a hard…
Campus Leadership

Wait-HOW many students doubt they’ll graduate?

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college tuition
Nearly half of students entering college are arriving on campus already doubting their ability to reach graduation, according to a new study. According to the 2017 Allianz Tuition…
Campus Leadership

Students at these schools carry the most debt

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student debt
As student loan debt becomes a bigger concern in an economy where advanced degrees are a necessary part of workplace success, a new study seeks to establish the…
Campus Leadership

New field of study says students need this classic skill first

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IoT survey
Communication skills rank high on the list of career skills necessary for success in the quickly-growing Internet of Things (IoT) field, according to a new survey from Northeastern…
Campus Leadership

Report: Faculty want more OER-here’s why

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oer
Community college faculty show high levels of interest and engagement in OER and are likely to promote OER use to colleagues, according to preliminary results from a national…
Campus Leadership

How today’s incoming students and their parents pay for college is changing

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paying for college
Students and parents shared paying for college responsibilities equally in academic year 2016-17, each contributing about one-third of the expense, and scholarships and grants covered most of the…
Campus Leadership

5 major challenges to your institution’s fundraising goals

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college fundraising
Traditional approaches to fundraising management are not meeting new challenges in higher education. Those approaches also fail to address increased demands on advancement professionals to be more productive.…
Campus Leadership

Educators are hyped up about these two new technologies

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ed tech
A new survey reveals that an overwhelmingly large amount of educators--89 percent, to be exact--said they found value in ed tech such as augmented reality and virtual reality.…
Campus Leadership

This state has a MASSive demand for computer science skills

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computer science
Got great computer science skills? You might want to move to Massachusetts, where, according to a new report, 23 percent of jobs involve computer science skills, compared to…