24 Higher-Ed Leaders Look to the Future

with contributions from Amit Mrig (President, Academic Impressions)and Pat Sanaghan (President, The Sanaghan Group) Future Timeline: What Trends, Events, and Issues Will Shape Your Campus? No one can foresee the future of higher education with certainty, but we can cultivate the habit of looking forward, scanning the horizon, and preparing to respond adaptively as the landscape […]

Kim Medina

Relatively new to Mines, Kim brings over 20 years of experience working to recruit students at institutions ranging from community colleges and small private institutions to large urban institutions. A Colorado native and Bachelor of Arts degree graduate of Mesa State College now Colorado Mesa University with a Master’s in Education in Counseling, Kim has […]

The “Big Quit”: Rethinking Staff Retention and Recruitment

FREE WEBCAST SERIES The “Big Quit”: Rethinking Staff Retention and Recruitment Series Overview As campus leaders emerge from crisis management mode and continue to navigate an ever-shifting work environment, they are now met with the challenge of finding ways to attract, retain, and support their staff. How can supervisors apply the lessons they learned during […]

Cody Noghera

As a leader of corporate affiliates program, Cody has spent the last eight years building relationships with corporations that provide access to engineering technology research, human capital, and collaboration of subject matter experts, executives, and engineering leaders. The program has nearly seventy corporate members, ranging from university relations and recruiting to high-level executives who engage […]

John W. Miller Jr., Ph.D.

Prior to becoming Dean, John served as Department Chair and Professor of Social Work at Benedict College and as an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His current research interests explore: the relationship between racism and adverse childhood experiences among African Americans, diversity, equity, access, and inclusion issues […]

Why Free College Isn’t Enough

Eileen L. Strempel, UCLA Stephen J. Handel, College Board Eileen Strempel and Stephen Handel are authors of a book released in 2021 titled Beyond Free College: Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students. In their book, Eileen and Stephen share a compelling case that post-secondary degree or certificate is essential to participation in our […]

Showcase: Examples of Mobile Technology Used for Teaching and Learning

With students bringing smartphones and tablets to campus — and expecting to access information and course content via mobile devices — it continues to be urgent for faculty developers and instructional technologists to explore the affordances of these devices and the opportunities for using them to enhance teaching and learning. In our past article, “Piloting […]

Spotlight on Innovation: How Lee College is Responding to Industry and Student Needs with Weekend College

SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION SERIES The US Department of Education has awarded multi-million dollar “First in the World” grants to 24 colleges and universities that are innovating to solve critical challenges with access, recruitment, retention, and student success. At AI, we have interviewed each of the recipients to learn more about the projects these institutions are […]

Michael P. Macklin

Michael P. Macklin is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Workforce Development at the Colorado Community College System. His primary focuses are workforce development, noncredit programming, and business partnership development. Through Mr. Macklin’s work with digital badges, he is leveraging the power of digital credential opportunities in advanced manufacturing, healthcare and information technology. […]

Melissa Dagley, Ed. D.

Dr. Melissa Dagley serves as PI of the NSF-funded STEP 1b program “Convincing Outstanding-Math-Potential Admits to Succeed in STEM (COMPASS),” and Director for the formerly NSF-funded “EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence”. She is a Co-PI for the Girls EXCELling in Math and Science (GEMS) and WISE@UCF industry funded women’s mentoring initiatives. In […]