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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver. Edward’s University St.

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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I applied to non-tenure-line teaching positions, linguistics-adjacent orgs and a bunch of university admin jobs. It took a year for me to make a match, but when I saw an ad for a job as an academic adviser to language and linguistics majors at Georgetown, I immediately knew that I was going to get the job.

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How to build more flexible academic pathways for the changing college student

University Business

Looking at students through the lifelong lens, Butler+ is the private university’s answer to the new wave of continuous learning modalities catching fire across the country, offering a wide array of credential types for various career pathways while erasing the friction points typical for adult learners. .