As our article “The Library of the 21st Century” attests, the academic library continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and library administrators across higher education continue to wrestle with the question of how best to adapt their libraries to changing student and other user needs on campus. There is a lot of uncertainty about how […]
Training, resources, and experts you can count on right now. Annual Giving Alumni Relations Major & Planned Giving Other Advancement Areas Membership with Academic Impressions provides all of these resources and more. Each year we create dozens of new development opportunities to address the most pressing issues facing advancement shops and enable you to connect […]
From entry level to the C-suite, I help professionals normalize the emotional, aesthetic and communication skills essential to executive presence Dr. Wendy M. Wilson is a transformational leader with over 28 years collective experience in human resource management and higher education. Wilson’s nearly 20- year experience includes post-secondary education roles within the University System of […]
by Len Brazis, Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis,Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Here at Embry-Riddle, the adoption of Activity Based Costing (ABC) principles has been an evolutionary process that began on one of our residential campuses in the Fall of 2010. That campus had just finished a fiscal year with a negative operating margin of $3.3 […]
Kathy joined the College of Saint Benedict in 2015 and is responsible for all institutional fundraising and alumnae engagement around the world. She led the successful Illuminating Lives campaign, the largest in the college’s history, raising $113 million toward a $100 million goal. The campaign focused on growing the college’s endowment—which doubled over the course […]
Introduction Six months ago, I wrote a piece about what I had learned as a university president in the early days of the pandemic. We were less than 30 days into the national shutdown. It was hard to imagine that the pandemic, and our lives on campus, would evolve as they have. The subsequent surfacing […]
Student financial literacy remains top of mind at many institutions, and for good reason. With student default rates on the rise and retention a greater challenge than it’s ever been, colleges and universities throughout the sector are looking for ways to make financial literacy education available for their student population. The University of North Texas, […]
Alumni participation has steadily declined across institutions of higher education in the United States for several decades. And increasingly, donors are taking their philanthropic inclinations to organizations where they can give to specific purposes with targeted outcomes. The most successful deans and academic leaders are attuned to this reality and work in concert with their […]
Dr. Monique Perry is an award-winning higher education administrator, leadership coach, and speaker utilizing a hybrid of leadership experiences from over a decade in the private sector and higher education arenas to support student success. Dr. Perry currently serves as Assistant VP of Enrollment Services at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina. In […]
Implicit gender bias is systemic even in the egalitarian environment of higher education, and developing self-awareness in our leaders is the key to challenging it. Yet the “don’t rock the boat” culture of higher ed often gets in our way. Let’s look at how to counter that. This is the third in a series of […]
