This essay is a sequel to “The Human Dimensions of Enrollment Management,” published in The New England Journal of Higher Education on June 30, 2020. In that article, my unusual… Read more »
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Building the Brand: How the Physical Campus Shapes Student Experience (Even During a Pandemic)
The brand of a college or university is more than its logo or tagline. It’s an accumulation of experiences for students, staff, faculty, alumni and community members. Marketing is part… Read more »
Out of the Wreckage of COVID, the Rebirth of College Career Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the labor market, with more than 40 million Americans who have filed for unemployment. Even as some states have attempted to… Read more »
Landscape Measure: Animating the University Campus to Promote Social Distancing
As many higher education institutions in New England grapple with how to safely reopen in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the physical setting of campuses becomes paramount. Indeed, NEJHE… Read more »
Pandemic Innovation
A view from Mount Holyoke on why practical, flexible new models are needed for liberal arts colleges … Students choose small liberal arts colleges for the learning that unfolds when… Read more »
The Human Dimensions of Enrollment Management
I want to discuss the human dimensions of what I have too often treated (thinking with my instincts as a theoretical physicist) as a scientific methods problem. Experience has taught… Read more »
For Some Small Colleges, the Pandemic Could Sadly Be Their Savior
Pre-pandemic, a good number of us lamented the demise of small colleges. Let’s define these here as non-elite colleges with enrollment of fewer than 1,500 full-time undergraduate students. For the… Read more »
Is This the End of Higher Education? A Historian’s Perspective
Discussions of the problematic future of higher education were already an exploding industry before COVID-19, producing more to be read than anyone could possibly keep up with. Their main audience… Read more »
Practitioner Perspectives: A NEBHE Q&A with Thomas Edwards on Helping Students Save Money on Textbooks
In the following Q&A, NEBHE’s Fellow for Open Education Lindsey Gumb asks Thomas College Provost Thomas Edwards about the Waterville, Maine, college’s plans to use a new grant from the…
Disastrous Job Loss Must Prompt Creative Measures to Protect Workers and Consumers
Friday May 8 saw the release of the most disastrous monthly jobs report in American economic history. In its monthly Employment Situation released last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor… Read more »