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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This was the beginning of plans—announced by Clark president David Fithian—to establish the Becker School of Design & Technology (BSDT) at Clark, keeping intact Becker’s nationally ranked interactive media design and gaming programs. There are some important lessons to draw from the experience.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

We define earnings boost as the amount more that they are making beyond the typical high school graduate within the state that their institution is located. That makes sense given that that’s a primary, if not the primary, reason many people get post–high school education and training.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. Despite being at the top of his field, S.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

Previously, Echambadi served as the dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computer science. We also have the first design school in the country. We were required to take a lot of liberal arts courses.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. I certainly wouldn’t. What, then, is the alternative?

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Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 190 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

He graduated from Cornell University and New York University School of Law and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. A very interesting example is the Parsons School of Design in New York and the New School for Social Research. [00:35:43] And they felt this particularly in computer sciences.