Tag: Institutions

Students

Learning How to Learn: Why Faculty Should Re-Think Learning Objectives as They Approach Final Exams

If colleges and universities are truly ‘student-centric’ then we should be re-thinking our course learning objectives during these final weeks of the semester. We must recognize that classes may not be the most important thing in our student’s lives during this pandemic.

April 29, 2020

African-American

COVID-19 Comes to Campus: What Hurricane Katrina Tells Us About the Current Campus Crisis

We are living in pandemic pandemonium, where panic is the prevailing mode of operation. Every college and university is operating with all hands-on deck, altering their operational norms; the result is that campus employees—academics, practitioners, and leaders—are beyond exhausted. Yet, for those of us who have witnessed campuses in crisis, all of this feels eerily familiar. As two higher education professionals and scholars who worked on the ground through Hurricane Katrina and studied campus crisis response, we are extremely reflective and vigilant about how we move forward in this new reality.

March 25, 2020

COVID-19

Moody’s Lowers Higher Education Sector’s Outlook to Negative Due to Coronavirus

Moody’s, a credit rating agency, this week downgraded its U.S. higher education outlook from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’, as college and university operations in the country have been thrown into complete disarray due to the spread of the coronavirus.

March 19, 2020

Students

Stepping Away from the Brink: Part VII: Faculty and The Academy

Faculty, in conjunction with students, represent the core of an academic institution. Without either, colleges and universities don’t have a purpose. It is faculty who provides education, advice, and enlightenment to our next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, educators, and hopefully change-makers. However, as higher education continues to find itself on the brink, questions around the appropriate faculty structure remains critical to thinking of the future of institutions.

March 11, 2020

Opinion

Institutionalizing Support for College Students Impacted by Foster Care

Despite the growing national media attention, shedding light on the precarious experiences of college students impacted by the foster care system, they remain on the margins of higher education research, policy and discourse. The data are clear though. On any given day there are nearly half of million youth in the foster care system (of which Black and Native American students are disproportionately represented) who have been subject to some form of abuse, neglect, or concerns about safety and wellbeing.

February 19, 2020

Students

How to Successfully Implement Guided Pathways Programs on Campus

If we know nothing else about today’s community college students from current research–particularly those who are first-generation and are from a low socioeconomic background–we know it is likely that during their educational journey “life” will happen to them.

February 5, 2020

STEM

UH Hilo Program Supports Minority Students in Behavioral, Biomedical Sciences

Biomedical and behavioral science students from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo (UH Hilo) recently presented their research at a national conference in Anaheim, California. There were 5,500 participants from over 350 institutions in attendance at the conference, which focused on research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The undergraduates were part of […]

December 15, 2019

Students

Reports: Underrepresented Students at Illinois Institutions Impacted by Budget Cuts

A recent period of higher education cutbacks in Illinois has created affordability and equity gaps for underrepresented students.

October 30, 2019

Students

Scholars Address Issues of Mobility in Higher Education

Strategizing around how best to address policy makers on issues of access, student success and the impact of higher education, four prominent scholars gathered at New York University (NYU) on Friday to share their research.

October 27, 2019

Latest News

Report Addresses Issues Related to College Closures

A new report from The Century Foundation provides suggestions on how to more effectively foresee an institution’s financial instability.

October 14, 2019

Leadership & Policy

Stepping Away from the Brink – Part IV – The Access and Affordability Challenge

The challenges in higher education are clear. By exploring the two key challenges of access and affordability in higher education in the primary and secondary education industries, cities and states allot the appropriate amount of resources to ensure both.

October 12, 2019

Latinx

Graduate School Enrollment on the Rise

Graduate school applications and first-time enrollment are on the rise with the largest increases in mathematics and computer sciences.

October 9, 2019