Wally Boston, Author at Wally Boston

U.S. College and University Spring Enrollment Continues to Decline

Posted on May 31, 2022 (October 17, 2023)

The National Student Clearinghouse released its Spring 2022 Enrollment Report this past week. Total postsecondary enrollment fell 4.1 percent, or 685,000 students compared to Spring 2021. This is a two-year decline of 7.4 percent or approximately 1.3 million students since Spring 2020. Most of the decline (662,000 students or 97 percent of the decline) occurred […]

Content is Ubiquitous – Connection is Not

Posted on May 24, 2022 (October 14, 2024)

The daily barrage of emails and tweets forces me to skim headlines quickly until I find something of interest. A clever headline or title can make a difference. Last week, one such headline attracted my attention: Connection Over Content: A New Era for Education Technology. Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education research at the Clayton […]

Emerge Summit 22

Posted on May 23, 2022 (October 17, 2023)

An introduction to Jan Lynn-Matern, founder and partner of Emerge Education at the ASU/GSV Summit in April led to an invitation to attend the Emerge Summit 22 in London last week. The Summit was held at the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) in Whitechapel, London. LIS is one of Emerge Education’s investments. It’s worth a visit […]

Check Your Passport Expiration Date

Posted on May 19, 2022 (October 17, 2023)

I used to travel outside of the U.S. at least once a year. Then COVID hit and it seemed like traveling overseas was more difficult and riskier than traveling in the U.S. Six weeks ago, I attended the ASU/GSV Summit in San Diego, my second in person conference since the pandemic. The conference is a […]

A Notable Milestone

Posted on May 16, 2022 (October 17, 2023)

Colleges and universities announce graduation dates well in advance of the planned ceremonies. The pageantry of formal graduation ceremonies with the faculty and administration garbed in their academic regalia is well known. As president of APUS, I presided over 15 in-person ceremonies and a virtual ceremony before retiring in August 2020. At the beginning of […]

More Research About Why Fewer Community College Students Are Enrolling

Posted on May 12, 2022 (July 1, 2026)

In March, I wrote two articles about a research paper written by Kelli Bird, Benjamin Castleman, Brett Fisher, and Benjamin Skinner titled Unfinished Business: Academic Market and Labor Market Profiles of Adults with Substantial College Credits But No Degree. Their report looked at students who attended the 23 Virginia Community College System colleges during the […]

AI-Powered Technologies and Practices in Higher Ed

Posted on May 10, 2022 (April 30, 2024)

In a recently published blog about the 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report, I noted that the report’s experts had identified six technologies and practices that will have a significant impact on teaching and learning. Two of those technologies, AI for Learning Analytics and AI for Learning Tools, incorporate the utilization of Artificial Intelligence technology. Over the […]

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report – Trends in Education Technology

Posted on May 9, 2022 (October 14, 2024)

The 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report is one of those rare reports that is not solely based on the research of the writers, but instead incorporates the opinions of experts in the field who provide several rounds of votes on trends to narrow the responses down to arguably those that the group believes will be most […]

How Would You Spend $1 Billion to Study Climate Change?

Posted on May 5, 2022 (July 3, 2026)

Wednesday’s New York Times featured an article about venture capitalist John Doerr’s $1.1 billion gift to Stanford University for establishing a department and several institutes to study climate change and sustainability. The gift is the second largest ever to an American institution of higher education. Reporter David Gelles writes that the gift will establish Stanford […]

Will Joe Biden Cancel Student Debt? – the Political Ramifications and More

Posted on May 4, 2022 (October 17, 2023)

Monday’s Boston Globe featured an article by reporter James Pindell that analyzed why President Biden hasn’t kept his campaign promise of cancelling $10,000 of college student debt for every borrower. Mr. Pindell notes that Mr. Biden is under pressure from the progressive left to cancel more debt. Specifically, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Chuck Schumer […]

Author: Wally Boston

Posts by Wally Boston

U.S. College and University Spring Enrollment Continues to Decline

Content is Ubiquitous – Connection is Not

Emerge Summit 22

Check Your Passport Expiration Date

A Notable Milestone

More Research About Why Fewer Community College Students Are Enrolling

AI-Powered Technologies and Practices in Higher Ed

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report – Trends in Education Technology

How Would You Spend $1 Billion to Study Climate Change?

Will Joe Biden Cancel Student Debt? – the Political Ramifications and More

Subjects of Interest

Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce