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3 Enrollment Boosting Strategies for Accredited Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 178 with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. David R. Decker

The Change Leader, Inc.

Franklin University, which primarily serves non-traditional, part-time adult learners, offers a unique perspective on higher education growth. “Backing into Costs” for Tuition Decker emphasizes that pricing in higher education should go beyond an institution’s needs.

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3 Reasons We Joined the edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Last week, the three of us participated in the first in-person meeting of edX/2U’s recently constituted University Partner Advisory Council (UPAC). Separately and together, we sit on a number of advisory groups/councils of for-profit companies working with nonprofit universities in the online learning space.

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Student Loans, Basic Needs and the Public Good

Confessions of a Community College Dean

First, state investment in public higher education has been on a decline since the 1980s. history, the younger generation has fewer years of education than the generation before them. For context, some interesting student loan debt statistics from the Education Data Initiative. Alexander points out that the U.S. Basic Needs.

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Department of Education is now considering changes to its guidelines addressing how outside providers bundle the services they offer to colleges and universities and to the regulations that define and govern third-party servicers. At this point, nearly every nonprofit university in the U.S. The strategy worked.

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Advocacy group survey: Faculty fear backlash for free speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

four-year public and private nonprofit universities. Colm O’Muircheartaigh, a University of Chicago professor and academic director of the university’s Center for Survey Methodology, said, “SSRS is an entirely reputable research company. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Hinkel added that the university system has been exploring new educational markets, especially in online education. Also, this week’s regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas does not have this item on its agenda, Hinkel said. It could be.”

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How 2 of higher ed’s most challenging trends are causing pain this fall

University Business

While every college and university has unique challenges, broad trends inevitably develop, forcing higher education leaders to deal with their implications collectively. Two macro trends nationwide seem no more consequential than continuing political interference in higher education practices and downward trending enrollment.

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