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Read the entire article here. Part 2 ended with a discussion about the founding of the Sloan Consortium in 1999. The American Military University (the predecessor organization of the institution…
Read the entire article here. Part 1 ended with a discussion about the 1972 Title IX amendment of the Higher Education Act. I decided to add a personal reflection about…
Read the entire article here. Over the summer, a friend of mine asked me if I would be a luncheon speaker for a group of retired executives. The group was…
After a conversation with an ed tech entrepreneur about the rapidly evolving field of non-credit credentials, I looked for a book or paper in my collection that I thought highlighted…
In an article written by Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik, last year’s successful kickoff of direct admissions for 10 colleges in the Chicago area by Concourse began a trend that…
Last week, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) issued its First Look Fall 2022 Enrollment report. Once again, overall undergraduate enrollment declined, this fall by 1.1 percent since last year and…
Former Chronicle of Higher Education Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Selingo, is a writer, author, teacher, and a clever out-of-the-box thinker. When I read his Next newsletter yesterday (if you don’t subscribe to…
If you want to read the most thoroughly researched book about higher ed credentials and the current and future issues involving them, you should read Paul Gaston’s and Michelle Van…
I’ve known Deborah M. Seymour and Kathleen Ives for a number of years. In addition to other positions, Deborah was chief academic innovation officer at the American Council on Education…
Last week, NY Times reporter Jon Marcus wrote an article about small colleges teaming up to survive by offering shared online courses. Mr. Marcus described how Adrian College, Westmont College, …
Two recent books about higher education that I’ve read and reviewed, After the Ivory Tower Falls and The Great Upheaval, provided excellent context and analysis about why higher education will…
It’s almost impossible to read about changes in higher ed without reading about the “opportunity” for institutions that built online courses during the pandemic to market those programs and courses…
The Texas 2036 organization recently issued a blog article regarding the importance of community colleges to the state’s growth and financial well-being. Texas has 50 community college districts serving the…
For more than two decades, I have looked for innovations and advances in technology that can improve outcomes in education. Thanks to Moore’s Law, the costs of many technologies have…
