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Working Smarter: Leveraging Digital Tools for Student Advising

The Scholarly Teacher

Academic advising is complex and multifaceted, and yet many faculty advise without much training. Navigating technology can be a very challenging aspect of academic advising. Research consistently shows that relationship-building is essential to creating successful and satisfied candidates.

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A Registrar’s View: Will You Graduate?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the current moment, many of my colleagues are on the front-line combing through records and various document management systems looking for the answer to whether students completed their degree requirements — did they graduate? All institutions of higher learning have the source of truth in the form of an academic catalog or bulletin.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities. They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Our data affirm the well-documented decline of the humanities academic job market over the previous decade, revealing that the number of assistant professors at Ph.D.-granting The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known. Olejniczak is director of Academic Analytics Research Center.

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Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2021, only 21 percent of college students completed an internship, compared to pre-pandemic numbers—50 to 60 percent of students—according to the National Survey of College Internships from University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions.

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Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division

EAB

Blogs Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division August 9, 2023 Melissa Grant Associate Dean of Advisement, Office of the Provost, Pace University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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OSU Cascades integrates equitable career readiness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The class, which started as a pilot in fall 2022, helps students create an action plan and a mission statement to guide their academic career, Garland explains. Both the statement and plan can change as a student explores major and career opportunities, but as tools for students and advising personnel, the documents guide choices.