UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Wisdom Given and Received Higher Ed Leaders Share Advice That’s Helped Them and Can Help You bridget Thu, 10/05/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Professional Development Weekly Wisdom The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) began our Innovating Together Podcast in April 2020. Never make a decision solely on money.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Michelle Morgan, Dean of Students at the University of East London. This piece is the first part of two discussing the rise in student mental health issues. These data provide valuable insights into student characteristics. The second part will be published tomorrow.

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Helix Education

MARCH 28, 2024

At RNL’s recent Graduate and Online Innovation Summit, I had the chance to sit down with Stephen Drew, RNL’s Chief AI Officer , for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is going to change how we do and what we do in higher education. to “Why won’t we solve today’s challenges without AI?” What is AI?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Knowing there is no easy way to “fix transfer,” the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) seeks to tackle the complicated problems and hidden complexities associated with credit mobility and transfer. Figure 1 Postsecondary institutional budgets depend largely on tuition.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Reading Time: 9 minutes As social media evolves, how students, parents, and the community communicate and share feedback about educational experiences is also changing. This year, for example, we will see a growing reliance on social media platforms for customer service and as valuable sources for school and program reviews.

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HEPI

APRIL 29, 2024

This longer HEPI blog was kindly authored by John Raftery, Principal at John Raftery & Associates , and Susan Lea, Founder and Principal at Sagewood Consulting. HEPI is hosting a webinar on student maintenance support next Thursday 9th May to mark the launch of a major new report. You can sign up here.

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EAB

AUGUST 28, 2023

Blogs Most strategic plans fail to set useful goals. Why these mistakes make it impossible to meet institutional objectives. And yet not fixing them will make it impossible to achieve your institutional objectives. Everyone agrees that a strategic plan should set clear institutional goals. Are those assumptions reasonable?

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Derfel Owen ( LinkedIn ), Director of Education Services at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Ant Bagshaw , Senior Advisor at L.E.K. This is the second part of two blogs focusing on the Office for Students. The first part was published yesterday and can be read here.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The state of Florida is conducting a master class in how not to have civil debate. Some context: completion scholarships are typically small grants of money that colleges or universities will give to students who are nearly finished. Might the institutional context make a difference?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation We are always eager to hear new ways universities are creating affordable online programs at scale. It is the conversation we never tire of having, and this time, we are talking to colleagues and friends, Georgetown’s Kelly Otter and Coursera’s Betty Vandenbosch.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 1, 2023

10 benefits of using the curriculum mapping system admin Thu, 06/01/2023 - 20:48 Colleges and universities are now more challenged than ever to raise student attainment levels. As educators it is necessary to give students the best education we can, giving them the abilities and information they need to succeed.

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Helix Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

A year ago, my friends at ZeeMee were brave and decided to join me in a journey to understand better the emotions that come into play during the last year of high school during college planning. Over the next ten months, we surveyed over 10,000 12th graders using the ZeeMee app. Students are no different. How can you help them?

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HEPI

JANUARY 23, 2024

This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne. Higher education software provider TechnologyOne modelled the total amount universities will lose to inflation each year up until 2026-27, by calculating the real-terms decline in tuition fee value and forward projections on student applicants.

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Helix Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Student satisfaction surveys are a key component in assessing the student experience. Are you gathering student satisfaction data regularly? If so, this blog is for you…and if not, this blog is also for you. In fact, more than 600 institutions capture this data at least once every three years.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education “We have a marketing problem.” I always found solving marketing problems invigorating, and the frequency with which I heard we had “marketing problems” always made my job seem critical to the success of the entire endeavor.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs Adult learners’ application behavior is changing—here’s how Insights from our new survey of 3,800+ graduate and adult learners As the demographics of prospective graduate students and adult learners change, so do students’ application preferences and behaviors. Here’s what we learned.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Department of Education created its own rumblings by releasing new guidance with rules about any contracted services and a series of questions about companies helping institutions with online learning. There has been much interest in assuring student consumer protection in this growing industry and in institutional outsourcing.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

However, in this episode of the Weekly Wisdom Series , we spoke with President Casey Sacks , who began working at West Virginia’s BridgeValley Community and Technical College after serving two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the U.S. I went to our governor and said, ‘We need $9 million for a nursing project.’

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting , we had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Todd Nicolet. In our conversations, we found Todd to be both incredibly collegial and massively knowledgeable about the shifting landscape of higher education.

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HEPI

MARCH 4, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Dr Helena Lim , Head of Opportunities at evasys. So, what early takeaways can we glean from the 2023 process? However, it has also been praised for helping students make better choices of where to study.

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HEPI

JANUARY 12, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. We have to get much more serious about climate action. We are starting to understand how the demand for specific skills will shift. The list goes on.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There has probably never been a better time to ask and explore our central question: what works for leadership in higher education? The sector’s response to COVID-19 brought this question into sharp focus, with fast decisions needed at the same time as maintaining a collaborative and inclusive culture. A helping hand.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

One of the most talked about issues in accounting right now is whether the 150-hour requirement to qualify for licensing as a CPA creates a barrier to entry for many accounting students that should be revisited. The question is how best to do it. Expanding the Knowledge Base for CPAs. Nothing has changed in this regard.

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HEPI

JULY 30, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, interim Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton, and Gemma Kay, University of Wolverhampton, Aspire to HE. On Monday 14th August, 11am, we are hosting a webinar with UCAS Chief Executive Clare Marchant: you can register here. What do we mean by ‘disadvantaged’?

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Reading Time: 10 minutes Effective landing pages can play a pivotal role in the success of your school’s enrollment efforts. As the digital gateway through which prospective students embark on their academic journey with your school, landing pages have the potential to be the driving force behind a thriving enrollment season.

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EAB

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Blogs Our New Staffing Model Playbook for Higher Ed CMOs Insights from a former higher ed CMO on how to adapt staffing models to meet market realities Many higher ed marketing and enrollment teams are not equipped to keep up with today’s changing recruitment expectations in the race to attract and enroll prospective students.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And while many jobs still require the advance education that a college degree provides, there is a growing demand among employers for a stronger alignment between what students are taught in college and the job skills that they will need to use in their careers. Where is the gap? Thankfully, that’s all within reach.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And while many jobs still require the advance education that a college degree provides, there is a growing demand among employers for a stronger alignment between what students are taught in college and the job skills that they will need to use in their careers. Where is the gap? Thankfully, that’s all within reach.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Blogs Five Things University Leaders are Prioritizing This Year (And Two They Should Be) The results from EAB’s Spring 2023 Pulse Survey are in! While our analysis validated many topics on our research agenda, we also surfaced a handful of surprises.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

How to staff your analytics function. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I heard a student offer an idea on Monday that hit me with the force of the retrospectively obvious. Does your campus have advisers specifically for returning adult students? It would make sense. Financial aid issues can arise. But the payoff would be worth it.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 15, 2023

He spoke with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast about his leadership style, expectations he's faced, lessons he's learning from the experience, and how future administrators might best prepare for this kind of leadership. How do you manage situations in a temporary structure? How do you keep them all at the table?

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EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Blogs How 1,000+ prospective HBCU students conducted their college search Key insights from our 2023 Student Communication Preferences Survey The recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action has many HBCU leaders wondering whether they’ll see an influx of enrollment for fall 2024.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In a recent blog post for Inside Higher Ed , Steven Mintz asks, “Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?” ” As two leaders of honors colleges, we agree. ” As two leaders of honors colleges, we agree.

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