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Holistic campus design strategies to combat loneliness

University Business

MARCH 31, 2025

Actionable takeaways for other campuses The following strategies are essential for a Campus Catalysthelping institutions directly address student success challenges, mitigate the effects of the Anxious Generation (2024 ), and combat loneliness.

Environment

Environment Humanities Institutional Direction Students

How Severance Mirrors U.S. Higher Education Administration: The Compartmentalization and Bureaucracy of Modern Academia

Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 31, 2025

This division can lead to limited communication and a lack of understanding between those shaping the institutions direction and those most impacted by decisions. Administrators focus on policies and data, while faculty members concentrate on teaching and research.

Academia

Academia Administration Higher Education Education

Building Sustainable Futures: Rethinking International Student Recruitment in the UK

HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Several external factors contributed to this sharp rise, many of which were beyond UK institutions’ direct control. Whereas first degree enrolments dipped from a peak of 109,730 in 2020/21 to 94,105 the following year, recovering slightly to 103,845 in 2022/23.

Recruitment

Recruitment Students Higher Education Institution

U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Social workers “absolutely cannot situate ourselves as the magic ingredient to eradicating racism in law enforcement—an institution directly tied to the legacy of American slavery—if we cannot dismantle racism within our own systems of care,” Dettlaff wrote in the letter, which was signed by more than 1,100 social workers.

Deans

Deans Provost Faculty Organization

How Can You Increase Success With Second-Year and Transfer Students?

Helix Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although students appear socially comfortable, they are still looking for institutional direction for opportunities to engage socially. and, “How can we use data on student’s requests and needs to shape programs, services, resources to help them not just survive but thrive?”.

Retention

Retention Students Allocate Institutional Direction

The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2016

Whatever the value of institutional Direct Funding of R&D, it is obviously the driver of the rapidly growing overall cost of Institutional R&D. Over the 4 years covered by the report, Direct Funding grew by an impressive 54.8%. Most elements of Departmental Research, e.g

College

College University Faculty Medical School

Scaling Online Programming: The Fundamental Building Blocks

Helix Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

I’ve also worked on digital badging that allows students to stack credentials, earn digital credentials, and help students demonstrate the skills and knowledge they have learned.

Leadership

Leadership Institution Institutional Direction Degree

University Presidents Called to Action

Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And yet, one of the greatest challenges these university leaders will face lies not only in the resistance of external forces like protestors, activists, and the general public, but also in the powerful trustees and donors who hold significant sway over the institutions direction.

University President

University President University Policy Leadership

Building awareness of your law program is more important than ever

EAB

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Strategy #1: Robust and exhaustive lead generation A recent EAB survey revealed that 80% of graduate and adult learners research institutions, compare programs, and make decisions before engaging with an institution directly.

Law School

Law School Recruitment Schooling Institutional Direction

Improving the Applicant Experience and Institutional Results Through Transcript Services

Helix Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Whether the order is through a service like Parchment or the applicant’s prior institution directly, the Enrollment Specialist will complete the order and ensure the transcript is provided to the institution. Guess work and leg work for applicants to obtain and submit their prior transcripts is greatly diminished.

Institution

Institution Institutional Direction Guidance Schooling

The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

ACRLog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? The CARL Competencies. How do you envision your role as an academic librarian? With your job description? And do you have the knowledge, skills, and values to support this work?

Professional Development

Professional Development Leadership Organization Institutional Direction

Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2015

This last item is worth discussing because it brings up a few misconceptions about sponsored research - e.g. that it is revenue neutral (or even positive) for the institution.

Allocate

Allocate University Organization Model

Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

APRIL 6, 2023

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Educational Systems Institution

Ready or Not, Here It Comes! New Regulations When Offering Programs Leading to a License Effective July 1!

WCET Frontiers

MAY 16, 2024

We have heard that there are some institutions offering students the choice of where the institution satisfies state educational requirements and encouraging the student to choose from that list and then attest to one of those states.

Department

Department Institution Department Of Education Education

AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The college’s new institutional direction has ostracized legacy students and catalyzed a mass exodus among faculty members who don’t align with the state’s politics. The college has since abolished all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, axed its top officer and ended its gender studies program.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Liberal Arts Administration

Strengthening data and insights into our changing university research landscape by Jessica Corner

HEPI

MARCH 23, 2025

We will begin testing the approach with a selection of institutions in the coming months and, subject to the outcomes of this initial engagement, aim to roll out a pilot with institutions in the 2025/26 academic year. We will be communicating to institutions directly about the pilot in the early Autumn.

Arts And Sciences

Arts And Sciences University Allocate Facilities

New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

” Still other institutions directly address the potential legal repercussions of removing a name. Institutions—most recently, the University of California Hastings College of the Law —have been sued for attempting to change names they had previously promised to maintain in perpetuity.

Policy

Policy Facilities Advocate History

The divestment problem

University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

Communicating to school stakeholders how an institution directly or indirectly invests in companies aiding Israel’s military is a tall task, thanks to the sheer complexity of their robust investment portfolios and how they’re managed.

History

History Higher Education Institutional Direction Schooling

So You Want to Be a Disrupter

Inside Higher Ed

MAY 13, 2025

So You Want to Be a Disrupter Elizabeth Redden Tue, 05/13/2025 - 03:00 AM Jeffrey Herbst offers advice for how college leaders can prepare themselves for bruising battles over controversial changes in institutional direction. Byline(s) Jeffrey Herbst

Institutional Direction

Institutional Direction Institution College

Undocumented students: 10 ways to keep their data safe

University Business

JANUARY 24, 2025

Ensure key personnel know their responsibilities under federal, state and local laws and institutional directives. Work with your board of trustees to reaffirm or implement procedures for responding to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement data inquiries. Example : Chicago Board of Education resolution.

Students

Students Administration Institutional Direction Policy

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Holistic campus design strategies to combat loneliness

How Severance Mirrors U.S. Higher Education Administration: The Compartmentalization and Bureaucracy of Modern Academia

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Building Sustainable Futures: Rethinking International Student Recruitment in the UK

U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

How Can You Increase Success With Second-Year and Transfer Students?

The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Scaling Online Programming: The Fundamental Building Blocks

University Presidents Called to Action

Building awareness of your law program is more important than ever

Improving the Applicant Experience and Institutional Results Through Transcript Services

The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Venezuelan Higher Education

Ready or Not, Here It Comes! New Regulations When Offering Programs Leading to a License Effective July 1!

AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

Strengthening data and insights into our changing university research landscape by Jessica Corner

New policies guide removal of controversial building names

The divestment problem

So You Want to Be a Disrupter

Undocumented students: 10 ways to keep their data safe

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