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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. Shifts in demography, the economy and cultural values have far greater influence than the stories that dot the higher ed press. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? How about the defunding of higher education?

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Leveraging Partnerships to Support Local Workforce Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 1969, MCC assigned more expensive specialized programs to their single campuses and later expanded their fifth permanent campus, MCC-Business and Technology, to create a 340,000-square-foot facility to house a greater-majority of MCC’s CTE programs. In an article published by CNN titled, “The US Desperately Needs Skilled Workers.

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South Africa’s Advtech Group to enter healthcare

The PIE News

The institution caters for kindergarten to A-level pupils, and will include boarding facilities for senior students. The news came as South African authorities announced the closure of a private college giant, the Education Investment Corporation Limited – also known as the Educor group.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” Princeton’s defense: “Operating expenses don’t include hundreds of millions in capital expenditures the endowment provides every year to fund things like research equipment and facilities.” Nor does it have a major nanoscience facility. ” Is Princeton truly a leader in these fields?

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Purdue and Indiana University split joint venture at IUPUI

Inside Higher Ed

Now, in a world of higher education where mergers are becoming increasingly common , Indiana and Purdue will break programs apart at IUPUI, with each institution operating independently. Exactly how facilities will be divided between the two institutions has not yet been finalized.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. ” Yet we can’t do better if we fail to reflect on the past and extract its messages and warnings.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

The first phase is probably developing co-branded curriculum, facilities so that industry can share their problems, and maybe we get some industry or government officials to teach, and then we create those bridge modules. The UIA was developed during Bridget’s tenure as an American Council on Education (A.C.E.)