The recent March for Our Lives at hundreds of locations around the globe rattled my cage, particularly as I stood in the middle of hundreds of thousands of protesters in… Read more »
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Meotti to Head Washington State Achievement Group; Key Higher Ed Leaders Announce Plans to Retire
Meotti Comings and Goings … Michael Meotti, former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Higher Education and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Connecticut Board of Regents… Read more »
Campus Free Speech Presents Both Legal and PR Challenges for Colleges
Free speech is fast becoming a hot-button issue at colleges across the country, with campus protests often mirroring those of the public-at-large on issues such as racism or tackling institution-specific… Read more »
NEBHE Reveals 2016 New England Higher Education Excellence Award Winners
The New England Board of Higher Education’s (NEBHE) announced its 2016 New England Higher Education Excellence Awards winners. NEBHE will hold its annual awards celebration at the Boston Marriott Long… Read more »
Rate of Decline in Spring Enrollment Slows
U.S. college enrollment continued to decline in spring 2014, but at a slower rate than in recent terms, according to estimates from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. Nationally,… Read more »
Before We’re Up to Our Necks in Aggregators, Let’s Get Out Our Net Value Calculators!
No sooner has the Net Price Calculator wave crashed ashore, the next wave of college-choice transparency in the form of third-party data aggregators is threatening to engulf us. A Net…
When the Elephant Is the Room
Maybe the classroom is where we should seek the transformation we need in higher education … For several years now, many of us have been agonizing over the sorry state…
Do We Have a Retention Problem … Or Do We Have a Problem About Retention?
This paper, like many being written these days, deals with the “problem” of student retention in higher education. But unlike most, this paper focuses not on the problem of retention…
Conn. Gov. Malloy to Speak at Conference on Growing Economic Divide and Implications for Ed
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will be among speakers at “To Have and Have Not: The Growing Economic and Social Divide and its Implications for Educational Leaders,” a conference scheduled for… Read more »
Down Economy Still Shaping College Enrollment, Consulting Firm Says
Two years after the depth of the Great Recession, the economy is still a major factor in college-enrollment decisions, according to a new survey by Concord, Mass.-based Maguire Associates and… Read more »