In this article, W. Kent Barnds, vice president for enrollment, communication, and planning at Augustana College, offers four key strategies for boosting enrollment of undergraduate men: Audit Your Academic Offerings Traditionally, colleges hoping to boost the number of men on campus make significant investments in men’s athletics. For example, Hendrix College and Stevenson University have […]
FREE WEBCAST RECORDING Best Practices for Supporting First-Year Faculty: Lessons Learned During COVID-19 Gain ideas for how to better support your first-year faculty in the current environment. Effectively onboarding and supporting first-year faculty — both tenure-track and non-tenure-track — is challenging to get right even under the best of circumstances, and the events of 2020 […]
Joseph’s career spans nearly two decades in the performing arts followed by over twenty-four years of experience in assessment, institutional effectiveness, accreditation, and planning. In his current role as vice president of accreditation relations and policy, his portfolio of work includes regional and specialized accreditation and policy related to accreditation. Prior to coming to Bridgepoint, […]
Paula S. Krist, PhD has been active in institutional research and assessment since 1994. She has presented numerous sessions and workshops on assessment topics in academic and student affairs and was a faculty member for both of the Association for Institutional Research’s Assessment Institutes. She has presented workshops on assessment topics at regional and national […]
Amid increased calls for public accountability, public debates that measure the academic quality of an institution according to specific outcomes (such as completion rates), and increased competition for students between peer institutions, there is a need for rethinking the way you market your institution’s academic strengths — and specific academic programs. Increasingly, prospective students and parents […]
Melissa Vito is a recognized higher education leader with over 35 years of experience in public higher education and most recently selected consulting. She served as both Senior Vice President for Enrollment and Student Affairs and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Student Success at the University of Arizona, retiring in July of 2018. […]
Here’s how department chairs, deans, and unit directors can build and support the innovations that will help their institution thrive in the years to come. On many campuses you will find creative faculty, students, staff, and senior leaders who start programs that grow and eventually become transformative for the institution. These ventures build the school’s […]
and by Ronn Kolbash, Assistant Vice President of Shared Services, University of Chicago With rising tuition, research dollars shrinking, and state budget allocations being reduced, the higher education industry has important cost issues to address. To manage this, a growing number of colleges and universities are adopting a shared services model for various activities and transactions. […]
It’s no secret that more women in the workforce has not equaled more women in leadership. Women opt out because they don’t feel their work is meaningful, they object to the direction their institution or institutional culture is headed, or they believe their contributions aren’t valued. Countering this requires a systemic approach. by Rosalind Spigel, […]
Series: Costs Down, Quality Up Historically, initiatives to improve quality have also meant added cost—smaller class sizes, more faculty who conduct research, etc.—but this is no longer a sustainable model for all institutions. What are the innovations that can actually drive the cost to educate a student lower while driving critical outcomes like student success and completion […]
