February, 2022

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Higher Ed's Hedgefunds

Higher Ed Data Stories

OK, I got your attention. That title is admittedly a bit harsh. But before I talk about the data, there are lots of caveats here, and some background will help. Last week, NACUBO released its 2021 Study of Endowments, along with lots of data for the public, and more if you are a member. I used the free data here. The last person you want to get angry at you is the business officers.

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Innovation in Integration for Pine Manor College and Boston CollegeChanging Higher Ed Podcast 104 with Guest Tom O'Reilly

The Change Leader, Inc.

Pine Manor and Boston College's innovation in integration created a student success pipeline by defining the parts to strengthen the whole. Instead of pushing two institutions together, leaders figured out how they could grow together for institutional sustainability and student success. Pine Manor and Boston College's innovation in integration created a student success pipeline by defining the parts to strengthen the whole.

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Good to be back: some of the best higher education conferences in 2022

Terminalfour

Through the pandemic, universities and colleges have been exceptionally creative in adapting to challenges. Now is the time to regroup together to share experiences, knowledge, and innovation at (mostly) in-person conferences. We check out innovative conferences and well-established favorites.

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Three Metrics I Didn’t Have During My College Search, But I’m Glad Students Now Do

IHEP

By: Janiel Santos. The college search process is a pivotal point in a student’s college journey, and often an unnecessarily challenging one. I still vividly remember the overwhelming frustration that came with sorting through information packets and struggling to compare institutional outcomes as I attempted to narrow down my top college choices. As the first in my family to go to college, the process was daunting and difficult to navigate.

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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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Specializing in hope

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

February can be one of the bleakest months in Northeast Ohio. Fortunately, there is a bright spot this time of year with the annual DREAM conference, hosted by Achieving the Dream (ATD). Recently, I joined more than 300 community college leaders for the ATD annual convening. Inside the virtual conference, I felt myself become energized through the stories and strategies shared – especially the messages shared by ATD President and CEO Dr.

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The Policy, Research, & Practice Disconnect

Continuous Learning Institute

( A. Solano ). The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram is often an illusion. Too many university researchers and policy makers simply lack a deep understanding of how colleges work to ensure their efforts land in the Venn diagram sweet spot.

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A Holistic Approach to Student Enrollment the University of Oregon WayChanging Higher Ed Podcast 103 with Guest Jim Bouse

The Change Leader, Inc.

Higher education enrollment is facing two major catalysts – the enrollment cliff and COVID-19 – both of which are forcing institutions to transform. According to Jim Bouse, Director of Enrollment Technology for the University of Oregon, it’s important for colleges and universities to take a holistic approach to student enrollment to achieve growth and stability.

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New EdTech innovators creating a digital revolution in the Higher Ed sector

Terminalfour

This week, we’re taking a close look at online education innovators that are set to shake up digital student recruitment, online learning, and management in 2022 and what this means for the higher education industry.

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How to Market Your Nursing School

Thinking Cap Agency

If the Covid pandemic taught us one thing, it’s the importance of our nurses. And the key to great nurses is attracting the right students to attend your nursing school. However, a one-size-fits-all marketing strategy simply won’t cut it in today’s higher education marketing landscape. When it comes to marketing your nursing school, your team needs to be laser-focused, highly strategic, and have an in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge marketing tactics.

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Errordle: a serious game

Academic Computing

In January 2022, the online game Wordle soared in popularity. It’s a word-guessing game where you guess a five-letter word and are told for each guess whether a letter is in the right place in the target word, present in the solution but in a different place, or not present at all in the target word. I fully expect that its popularity will crash soon enough, like most fads, although not before the NYT acquired it.

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Implementation Challenge: The Three-Month Reality Check

Continuous Learning Institute

( A. Solano ) Many campuses have either struggled to maintain momentum or stalled all together in their efforts to plan and implement major priorities to improve the student experience with equity impact. There's the usual suspects that contribute to a lack of clarity, coherence, and consensus: endless "inquiry" (i.e., data analysis, a tactic to avoid the work); hubris; workgroups that lack purpose and project management expertise; poorly designed structures that fail to communicate, collaborate

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Connecting w/ Gen Z via Customized Community

The Higher Ed Marketer

The potential for getting roasted by Gen Z is high if you aren’t adapting to the new expectations for higher education. Facebook is in the past—students are looking for more. More community, mental health sensitivity, and customization. How can we provide that? Our guest, Adam Metcalf , Co-Founder at ZeeMee , has the answers. In this episode, he explains why the key to Gen Z is community and how that unlocks a new level of engagement between schools and students.

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TCS Education System’s Secret Sauce for Growth and SustainabilityChanging Higher Ed Podcast 102 with Guest Dr. Michael Horowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Michael Horowitz discuss how TCS Education System’s forward-thinking approach to growth and sustainability has made a big impact on students, the community, and the medical education system. With the recent addition of the Kansas Health Science Center (KHSC) and the related Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, TCS […] Grab some take away's from TCS Education System's forward-thinking approach to growth and sustainability for your insti

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The University of Stirling takes its marketing to new heights with indoor drone

Terminalfour

We've seen how drone footage can be used to great effect to showcase the campus landscape. But what about drone footage inside university buildings? Find out how the University of Stirling used drone-captured video to create a unique view behind the scenes of their campus.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

February 28, 2022 by Dr. Bruce Taylor In the West, it’s common to view globalization through an inbound lens: international students and scholars come to North America or Europe for study or work, with some returning home and others perhaps choosing to remain. But the outbound movement of Western scholars to non-Western settings has always been present, although less visible.

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Our Resilience Reservoirs are Drying Up

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

We are running out of words to describe the emotions, experiences, and overall expressions for what life is right now. July 2021 was a difficult-face-plant-learning experience for me. I always thought I was a pretty resilient person: I assumed life would never be easy, and that there was an honor in that. By the end of July, however, my toughness turned flimsy.

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Closing Equity Gaps Is Not Enough

Continuous Learning Institute

( A. Solano ) Colleges across the country have been hyper-focused on closing equity gaps. They consistently talk about it as the end goal. It's in their strategic plan, equity plan, guided pathways plan--you name it. I've argued that closing equity gaps is an extremely important and meaningful short or mid-term goal, but not the long-term goal. If colleges require high standards and expectations from students, then institutions need to set the example.

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State of Capital Campaigns: Internet Giving & Micro-Philanthropy

The Higher Ed Marketer

Ever since the internet lowered barriers for fundraising, getting the attention of donors has gotten increasingly harder. Many colleges and universities have responded by making their capital campaigns bigger. However, our guest, Steve Brady , Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology , believes they should get smaller.

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Making DEI Practical at University of St. Thomas

Echo Delta

?. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is top of mind for many higher ed marketers, but figuring out the practical side of applying DEI concepts to the actual creative work marketing teams produce is often easier said than done. In this episode, we’ll hear from Kymm Martinez and Katie Jensen at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota about how they made DEI less intimidating and more actionable for their marketing team.

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"20-20": Many US States Have Seen Enrollment Drops of More Than 20 Percent (Glen McGhee and Dahn Shaulis)

Higher Education Inquirer

In 2013, Futurist Bryan Alexander aptly talked about peak college enrollment in the United States. And over the last decade or so, higher education enrollment has declined in almost every state. Now at least 18 US states have experienced enrollment drops greater than 20 percent--and five more are close to that threshold. People can watch the College Meltdown in real time at thelayoff.com.

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Why Study Arts at U of G?

#Deaning

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. Buckle up! These are my top 10 reasons! Programs, programs, programs! From traditional humanities disciplines such as Philosophy, Classics (Greek, Latin, Mythology), History, and English Literature, to the creative arts such as Music, Theatre, and Studio Art, to our exciting new interdisciplinary

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Higher (Ed) Love

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

I bought a Peloton bike in 2020. In my 20s and early 30s, I actually taught spinning classes – so I knew this purchase was going to work well for me. Don’t worry, this is not a #AD. I do love my bike (find me at JosieAndThe Pelo) and the Peloton community – so much so that I created a digital community for #HigherEdRiders! What I didn’t expect were instructors and classes like Ally Love.

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Elephant in the Room: Instruction in Higher Education

Continuous Learning Institute

( A. Solano ) Higher education faculty, specifically community college faculty, have played a significant role in my success as a student. I went from a returning student at California community college to Cornell University—a member of the Ivy League—in large part because of key community college faculty who took the time to mentor me and work hard to provide quality instruction.

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The College Tour: A Peek at Schools Across the Country

The Higher Ed Marketer

Many prospective students don't have the resources to travel across the country and tour all of the colleges and universities that interest them. What if there was a TV show that offered an insider's look at each school—their values, the campus life, the academic opportunities—through the eyes of their students? Alex Boylan , Co-Founder and Executive Producer of The College Tour , a TV series that tells the story of a single college with each episode, joins the show to explain what the show’s al

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The State of the Campus Visit With Jeff Kallay

Echo Delta

?. The campus visit is a make-or-break moment for traditional undergraduates. Yet, as schools around the country have made their way back to campus, selling the residential experience has been anything but business as usual. In this episode, we explore the current state of the campus visit and some of the most important challenges facing both schools and students.

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Terri Givens and “Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridge Racial Divides”

Higher Education Inquirer

[This article is part of the Transparency-Accountability-Value series.] Terri E. Givens is a seasoned (and storied) political science professor currently teaching at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. Professor Givens has recently produced two essential books on the politics of race: “Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridge Racial Divides” and “The Roots of Racism.

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Achieve, Lead, Vote

Susquehanna President's Blog

Achieve, Lead, Vote I have written a number of times about the roles many of our Founding Fathers played in establishing and cultivating higher-education institutions, especially liberal-arts colleges. They believed that for a democratic republic to succeed, and ideally flourish, an informed electorate was a necessity. This was a stark contrast with the European model that carefully limited access to a university education to the elite as a way to centralize and protect power.

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Scoping, Connecting, & Shepherding

Continuous Learning Institute

( A. Solano ). A setting is a time and place for educators to get important work done. Committees are not the ideal setting to accomplish work. They're filled with arcane, time-wasting procedures such as Robert's Rules, they're the place where obstructionists plant themselves with endless "concerns," and where politics is in full display. Therefore, it's committee sub-workgroups and/or independent workgroup settings that are better equipped to help the institution create change toward improved e

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Why You Need a Loan Repayment Assistance Program

The Higher Ed Marketer

To succeed at higher ed marketing, you need to understand the challenges prospective students face. For example, what hurdles do they need to overcome to attend your school? Often, a major hurdle is the prospect of borrowing money. That’s why offering loan repayment assistance programs, or LRAPs, can make a huge difference with enrollment. Peter Samuelson , President at Ardeo Education Solutions , joins the show to explain what LRAPs are, how they’re used, and how higher ed institutions benefit

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

Just over 20 years ago, Michael Zweig published The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret. At that year’s How Class Works conference at SUNY Stony Brook, academics from history, political science, labor and industrial relations, and other fields debated Zweig’s use of the term “working class.” Some thought it was a throwback to the 1930s or a tip-off that someone was a Marxist.

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One Fascism or Two?: The Reemergence of "Fascism(s)" in US Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

The Higher Education Inquirer is conducting an extensive investigation of the reemergence of fascism in US higher education. The examination aims to: define and operationalize the concept of fascism, investigate the roots of American fascism since the 17th century, and chronicle the most important cases of fascism in US higher education today. As part of a democratic process, we ask readers to be involved in the research and writing of this project.