Wally Boston, Author at Wally Boston

What to Make of All the Rapid Innovations in Higher Education?

Posted on August 6, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

I was a panel participant at a conference last Thursday in Washington, DC. The conference was sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and was called Stretching the Higher Education Dollar. The five panels that were convened included: The Case for Reform, Opportunities and Obstacles at Existing Institutions, Unbundling College Degrees in Theory and Practice, College […]

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be

Posted on June 22, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

Judging from Andrew Delbanco’s experience as a professor of Humanities at Columbia University, I thought his new book, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, would provide the standard defense of a liberal arts education. While he strongly advocates the merits of critical thinking utilizing a broad knowledge of history and philosophy, it’s not […]

Commencement 2012

Posted on June 19, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

Last Thursday and Friday, American Public University System (APUS) hosted its annual commencement recognizing all students who graduated over the previous 12 months. While degrees and diplomas are conferred and distributed quarterly, we have held an annual commencement ceremony in the Washington, DC area for more than a decade. This year’s was held at the […]

Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Posted on May 25, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

Researchers at Ithaka S+R including William G. Bowen (former president of Princeton University), Matthew M. Chingos (also a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy), Kelly A. Lack, and Thomas I. Nygren, have followed Ithaka S+R’s recent report titled “Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education” with a […]

Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education

Posted on May 21, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

Ithaka S+R recently published a report funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and titled, “Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education.” I have written extensively on this blog about the economic constraints facing institutions of higher education, issues of student persistence and retention, and the litany of other issues […]

APUS Opens Largest Solar Array in West Virginia

Posted on April 23, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

President Boston, Mayor Hamill, Vice Mayor Clendening, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, and CFO Harry Wilkins cut the ribbon officially opening the APUS Solar Array. Today I had the honor of hosting the ribbon cutting event for American Public University System’s (APUS) latest addition to its Charles Town campus, a 1,660 panel solar array. The […]

APUS Green Initiatives

Posted on April 20, 2012 (February 13, 2025)

It has been a little while since I’ve provided an update on American Public University System’s (APUS) sustainability efforts. There seems no better time to do so than Earth Day. Despite my lack of updates on this blog, the APUS Sustainability Committee has been working diligently and partnering with other groups on campus to promote […]

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Sustainability in Higher Education: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

Posted on April 18, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

In celebration of Earth Day, and in the spirit of giving more than just one day to the consideration of our planet and our impact on it, this is the first in a series of articles which I’ll post this week and into next related to sustainability in higher education. In September 1962 Rachel Carson […]

Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action

Posted on April 5, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

Vincent Tinto’s research related to student retention is well known among academicians. His 1975 paper in the Review of Educational Research creating a theoretical construct of the major factors leading to student retention has been cited in hundreds, if not thousands of papers and publications. Additionally, Tinto’s sociological construct of the college dropout influenced future […]

Aon and Wounded Warrior Project Salute America’s Wounded Warriors

Posted on April 2, 2012 (October 17, 2023)

The state of the economy is a well-known story these days and the unemployment rate is just one indicator of the trouble. Unemployment rates linger around 8.3 percent (as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] on March 9 for February 2012). The number of long-term unemployed (classified as those unemployed for 27 weeks […]

Author: Wally Boston

Posts by Wally Boston

What to Make of All the Rapid Innovations in Higher Education?

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be

Commencement 2012

Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education

APUS Opens Largest Solar Array in West Virginia

APUS Green Initiatives

Sustainability in Higher Education: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action

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