October, 2021

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COVID and AP Scores

Higher Ed Data Stories

Every year, The College Board releases summaries of the prior year's AP program. While I've visualized these before ( here and here ), I've been unwilling to update the visualizations or do longitudinal analysis, for a couple of reasons: First, the data are in multiple tables in multiple spreadsheets, and they are so heavily formatted for printing that scraping the data out of them is quite a burden.

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Humane Ingenuity 41: Zen and the Art of Winemaking

Dan Cohen

Here are sixteen “sketches of a 3D printer by Leonardo da Vinci,” as envisioned by AI using those words as a prompt: By Rivers Have Wings and John David Pressman , using a CLIP-guided diffusion. Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. These pieces use Juncture, a new open-source tool developed by JSTOR Labs that provides a scholarly version of the scrollingtelling that has become common in more mainstream media since the New York Tim

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Outliers: How Some Schools Grew [Webinar]

Echo Delta

This is the first of four installments in our (Re)Precedented Webinar Series, which originally took place live in September and October of 2021. Webinar Summary. The pandemic stopped the academic world in its tracks. Most schools struggled to keep enrollment numbers up and getting students back to campus. Yet, for some, enrollment numbers were stronger than usual.

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Digital marketing innovations from the UK’s “clearing” enrollment period

Terminalfour

In the UK there is an enrollment period called “Clearing” which is where Universities can offer unfilled places prior to commencement. No matter where you are in the world, it’s worth checking out, as the period is ripe with innovative digital marketing ideas.

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Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P

The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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Washington Update: New Guidance for Higher Ed on the Build Back Better Initiativewith host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Tom Netting | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 096

The Change Leader, Inc.

The U.S. Federal Government is continuing to create new guidance for higher ed on the Build Back Better initiative. This includes funding packages, negotiated rulemaking, new leaders at the U.S. Department of Education, and changing perspectives in relation to areas such as Title IX. When higher education programs align with compassion for students, student persistence and graduation rates change for the better.

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Membership into #RealCollegeCalifornia Coalition is Open and Welcomes New and Existing Members

Community College League of California

Envisioned by the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges’ Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce, and in partnership with the Community College League of California, the #RealCollegeCalifornia Coalition offers the latest expert help using evidence-driven support and hands-on guidance to help members develop new approaches and equity-based solutions, building internal capacity and gaining tools to impact institutional transformation.

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Give Rise

Susquehanna President's Blog

Give Rise This weekend, Susquehanna University announced the public phase of our Give Rise capital campaign. After years of careful planning and “quiet” fundraising, we announced that we have already raised $140,529,670 toward a goal of $160 million. That goal is more than twice what has been raised in any previous campaign, and going public with nearly 88% of that goal completed is a testament to the hard work of my colleagues and an affirmation of the commitment alumni and friends of the unive

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Australia and New Zealand: Will students change their plans if borders remain closed?

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)

H ow have the measures take n to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Australia and New Zealand affected the study plans of prospective international students? . Governments in Australia and New Zealand imposed some of the strictest border controls and lockdowns in the world in their efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. . Both are now planning steps to lift restrictions as their vaccination programmes are rolled out with plans for a gradual return of international students .

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Top 10 website conversion rate optimization tools

Terminalfour

This week we round up the best tools for measuring conversion success to help optimize higher education websites for student recruitment. We focused on tools that can be quickly deployed, regardless of your content management system, to improve conversation.

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Is Institutional Spending and Affordability Putting U.S. Higher Ed in Danger? A New ACTA Report Discussionwith host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guests Drs. Michael Poliakoff and Armand Alacbay | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 095

The Change Leader, Inc.

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), which was founded 26 years ago, has a history of focusing on critical issues facing higher education. The non-partisan organization began by addressing important topics, such as slipping academic standards, erosion of free expression on campus, and escalation of tuition. In a recent report, they look at […].

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Student Success = Institution Success

The Higher Ed Marketer

Higher education is like marriage. Once you’re hitched, if you stop investing in the relationship, you can’t be surprised if it doesn’t last. . Student success needs to be the constant, single focus of higher ed marketers to attract the right-fit students who will both stay and succeed. . In this episode, we interview Nate Simpson , Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , about reprioritizing student success. .

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A first look at pandemic enrollments

Higher Ed Data Stories

This week our trade publication, The Chronicle of Higher Education took a quick look at changes in enrollment between Fall, 2019, and Fall, 2020. If you don't work in higher ed, you can read a few stories per month for free with a registration. If you do, there is no reason you shouldn't be a subscriber. Something happened in the spring of 2019 that might have had a big effect on college enrollment.

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Total Human Capital (THC), Asking the Hard Questions, Interview with Michael Fullan

Michael Fullan

In this 53-minute recording, Teresa Hand-Campbell (THC) interviews Michael Fullan covering updated research in education, the impact of COVID-19 on education, the right drivers for whole system success, New Pedagogies for Deep Learning , and much more. September 2021. [link]. … Read more Total Human Capital (THC), Asking the Hard Questions, Interview with Michael Fullan.

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Differentiating Your School Through Smart Strategy

Echo Delta

?. For small, tuition-driven colleges and universities, the challenge of recruiting right-fit students has never been greater. And each year, as schools compete for an ever-smaller pool of students, it becomes increasingly critical to stand out–to be differentiated–in the sea of seemingly interchangeable schools. Yet, when it comes to creating a strategy for meaningful differentiation, many schools flounder.

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Is Kohl's Business Model Relevant for Higher Education Finance

College Viability

Is Kohl's the new model for higher education finance?

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today. As institutions continue to evolve, so must the way boards operate.

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Student Success = Institution Success

The Higher Ed Marketer

Higher education is like marriage. Once you’re hitched, if you stop investing in the relationship, you can’t be surprised if it doesn’t last. . Student success needs to be the constant, single focus of higher ed marketers to attract the right-fit students who will both stay and succeed. . In this episode, we interview Nate Simpson , Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , about reprioritizing student success. .

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Managing a Team That Spans Four Generations

Higher Ed Marketing Lab

?. For the first time in history, four generations are working side by side in the workplace. As such, managers of multi-generational teams can find themselves navigating vastly different levels of experience, goals, life-stages, and views on workplace norms. In this episode, we breakdown the basics of generational theory and explore how it can inform our approach to managing teams in the modern higher education workplace.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2:The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this second post of our three-part series on the New Higher Education Governance Model, we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today. As institutions continue to evolve, so must the way boards operate. Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, c

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Innovating the Higher Ed Business Modelwith host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Melik Khoury | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 094

The Change Leader, Inc.

Unity College is innovating the higher ed business model and breaking the antiquated mold. The institution has adopted a new eight-term educational model that decentralizes operations and gives deans and departments the freedom to design specific programs to meet student and client needs. This approach has in the institution’s enrollment jumping from 800 FTEs to 1800 FTEs in a year.

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How to Improve Your Institution’s Inclusion Marketing

The Higher Ed Marketer

Think about your last webinar (or virtual lecture or virtual campus tour). Did you provide captioning? Did you optimize the captioning for Deaf participants? Did you make it clear to all participants that you were providing this service? . Unless all three answers were yes, you need to make your marketing more inclusive. . In this episode, we interview Courtney Cannon , Undergraduate Enrollment and Youth Marketing Strategist at Gallaudet University , about inclusion marketing. .

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How to Improve Your Institution’s Inclusion Marketing

The Higher Ed Marketer

Think about your last webinar (or virtual lecture or virtual campus tour). Did you provide captioning? Did you optimize the captioning for Deaf participants? Did you make it clear to all participants that you were providing this service? . Unless all three answers were yes, you need to make your marketing more inclusive. . In this episode, we interview Courtney Cannon , Undergraduate Enrollment and Youth Marketing Strategist at Gallaudet University , about inclusion marketing. .