America’s university population peaked in 2010 at about 21 million students. We would be mired in a nationwide enrollment crisis if not for two major decade-long trends that cushioned a… Read more »
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A Case of Do or Die? The Fundamental Things that Apply to Online Leadership
This is the second of a two-part essay on the organizational implications of online distance education. Previously, I suggested that a gradual redistribution is occurring across American higher education, especially… Read more »
Online Leadership at the Vortex of Academic Destiny
This is the first of a two-part essay on the organizational implications of online distance education. As online education becomes more ubiquitous nationally, it becomes even more strategic locally on… Read more »
From Arab Spring to Academic Blossoming? Transforming Nations after their Liberation
Those nations trying to propel themselves into the global economy face a daunting task. And those emerging from dictatorships, theocracies and bloody revolutions face even greater challenges. Many had been… Read more »
Wallflowers at the Revolution: Evolving Faculty Perspectives on Online Education
For the past decade, we have been mired in generalizations in debating online education. Broad, often anecdotal and generally unsubstantiated comparisons have been made about the virtual and physical classroom–often… Read more »
Exploring Higher Education Business Models (If Such a Thing Exists)
The global economic recession has caused students, parents and policymakers to reevaluate personal and societal investments in higher education—and has prompted the realization that traditional higher ed “business models” may…
New England Colleges Under Stress: Presidential Voices from the Region’s Smaller Colleges
Shifting demography, rising operating expenses, plummeting state and federal support, intensified competition, broken financial models … these are just a few of the complex challenges facing New England higher education… Read more »
Quants at the Gate: The Unique Education of Actuaries
Universities typically emerge as gatekeepers of the professions, by wresting control over the training and certification that is required. The process generally begins outside academe—with apprenticeships and voluntary associations—and evolves… Read more »
The Vanishing Neighborhood Campus
Only a generation ago, universities like Northeastern and Boston University had campuses strategically sprinkled throughout eastern Massachusetts. Lesley University offered graduate education programs across the U.S. BU had a contract… Read more »
Just Like Starting Over: Advice for Faculty to Make the New Semester’s Teaching Endure
Sometimes when passing through a classroom building, I glance in at a class in session and try to gauge by students’ faces whether the instructor has them engaged or not…. Read more »