As a first-generation college student, Dr. Patti Helton learned early on that education has the power to transform. As a seasoned leader with over 25 years of experience as a Senior Student Affairs Administrator, Patti serves as the Regional Vice Chancellor of Student Success at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Dr. Helton is […]
Are you looking to spark your creative energy and explore new ways to develop ideas? Look no further, this 5 day program offers a unique opportunity to tap into your creative potential and unlock your imagination. You’ll begin a journey to build and strengthen your creative muscles by participating in carefully curated activities that are […]
Last month I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ricardo Azziz, former president of Georgia Regents University, about the US News and World Report (USNWR) higher education rankings. The conversation is especially timely as millions of students and parents are knee deep in the college application season this fall. In our conversation we explored […]
In last week’s 7 Second Survey, Academic Impressions asked academics to comment on their learning management system (LMS). 184 academics responded. What they told us: We asked Thomas Cavanagh, associate vice president of distributed learning at the University of Central Florida, to comment on the findings. Cavanagh and his team recently underwent an LMS review […]
Over the course of her twenty-year tenure in career services, Catherine has served as director at a variety of institutions including a highly selective women’s college, a ranked MBA program, and an access college serving majority first-generation students. In 2006, she was one of only six US career services professionals selected for a Fulbright scholarship […]
FREE RECORDED WEBCAST The Future of Higher Education Will Higher Education Seize the Future or Fall Victim to It? Today higher education faces four unforgiving paradoxes: Amid growing awareness that the traditional business model is broken, most higher-ed leaders are doubling down on that model. The way we manage our education model is undermining its […]
MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE COURSE The Narrative Arc: Mapping Your Tenure, Promotion, or Reappointment Statement Guide your committee and present a strong, cohesive case for your promotion. The processes of promotion, reappointment, and tenure are consistent drivers of faculty stress. However, learning how to write a professional statement effectively can alleviate some of that pressure. The professional statement […]
Anne Browning, Ph.D. has been looking at the ways internal psychological resources (e.g. self-compassion, resilience coping, psychological capital) buffer against adverse experiences and stressors. She looks at how skills, like emotional intelligence, can be best leveraged in academic and medical settings to support learning and patient outcomes. As an Atlantic Fellow at GBHI, Browning hopes […]
In the wake of recent declines in online program enrollment across many institutions, renewed attention to online student success and retention has become especially critical. We wanted to hear the best current thinking on improving online student retention, so we reached out to a panel of three accomplished experts in this area: You can read our […]
John Danneker is the Director of Learning Services at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle, a sixty-person department which includes all Libraries’ staff housed in Odegaard Undergraduate Library. He joined the UW in 2014 after a decade-plus of work in academic libraries in Washington DC. John leads Learning Services in advancing the UW Libraries […]
