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Boston College Names Father Jack Butler as 26th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"I am deeply honored to be named the next president of Boston College, a university that I love and have served for the past 22 years," said Butler, who will take the helm of a Carnegie Institute Research 1 university with nine schools and colleges, drawing students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries.

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Why AI usage is now soaring among higher ed employees

University Business

Furthermore, executive leaders were the most optimistic of all professionals when asked about AI’s benefits.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Programs include the university’s “earn and learn,” which provides funding for off-campus internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning, and cohort programs that serve particular student groups. From 2015 to 2023, Latino students represented over two-thirds (68%) of the institution’s enrollment growth.

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Making Sense of Changes to the U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Robert Kelchen

Fully seventy percent of these rankings are tied to metrics of social mobility, with a massive survey of students and alumni (20%) and diversity metrics (10%) making up the remainder. New research metrics! Check them out if you haven’t already. I also like Money magazine’s rankings , which are focused on social mobility.

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Class Size and Student-to-Faculty Ratios: What the Statistics Don’t Tell You

Great College Advice

An article a few years back from the alumni magazine of my alma mater, Dartmouth College, points out that the real, untold story is how the mania to protect the “average class size” statistic is shutting students out of popular courses. But these figures do exist on campus, and they exist in the office of institutional research.

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Edify Accelerators: Custom Dashboards for Your Campus

EAB

Accelerators are designed to help leaders answer a common set of institutional questions. The dashboards include templatized reports, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) based on EAB research and experience with hundreds of institutions so that partners need not start from scratch.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.