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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

Among EAB’s partner institutions, for example, click rates increased 61% on Giving Day solicitations from 2019 to 2020. A large private university reported to EAB that their donor counts in FY’20 had been closely tracking their 2019 numbers. But there are also significant risks to halting solicitations altogether.

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Assessing online courses—OSCQR rubric

EAB

The college offered 157 online courses in spring 2019, compared to 329 course offerings in spring 2023, which is a 109% increase in the number of courses. Moreover, the college, and campus overall, are actively pursuing the marketing and promotion of existing online programs, as well as the creation of new programs.

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Navigating Institutional Accreditation: How to Get it and Keep it: Helping colleges and universities navigate the accreditation process successfully

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this case, the Department serves as a bank and delegates its authority to accreditors to confirm if institutions meet the quality, organization, and financial standards to receive federal financial aid. Accreditation is not mandatory – higher ed institutions need not be accredited.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Starting in 2018, for instance, several faculty members said, the faculty helped the college avoid budget-related program cuts via an academic and administrative program review. This work led to the publication of a long-term planning document called One Oberlin , which the general faculty and the board voted to approve in 2019.

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Institutional Accreditation is in Dire Need of Change: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 144 With Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton And Guest Ralph Wolff

The Change Leader, Inc.

However, accreditors are membership organizations, and the membership elects their Commission. Because institutions are so large, accreditation typically looks at processes, program reviews, assessments of student learning, shared governance, documents, policies, and how they’re implemented. We have online education.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

I thought that was the most arrogant thing I had ever heard until I got there and realized there is not a single other person in the organization that looks through that lens. And their immediate reaction was, ‘You're going to cut all of our programs just like you did at Henderson.’ The students are looking out.