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Vickie Cook Champions Microcredentials and AI as Keys to Higher Ed’s Future

MindMax

In a conversation with MindMax CEO Lee Maxey, Vickie Cook, Vice Chancellor for Enrollment and Retention Management at the University of Illinois Springfield, shares her insights on navigating budget constraints, leveraging AI in education, and the critical role of microcredentials in addressing current challenges.

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Montana State's Dr. Waded Cruzado Makes History as APLU's First Latina President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cruzado, who will assume the role on July 1, brings a deeply personal connection to the land-grant university mission, having begun her higher education journey as a first-generation college student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez. She holds a Ph.D. APLU is a champion of that message."

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Inside Higher Ed

Cutting resources by level of use would appear to be the easiest method, but what if the 2-3 people who use a comparatively low use, specialized journal are leading a multi-million dollar research grant on a topic that is core to the university mission? computer sciences, business administration, education). 2013, section 3.4]

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CU Boulder Chancellor DiStefano: Lessons learned from 50 years in higher ed

University Business

As I prepare to step down after 15 years as chancellor at the University of Colorado Boulder, the higher education landscape looks much different than what I encountered as a new professor in 1974. Public confidence in higher education is continuing its downward trend, according to recent polls. Here’s how to help them.

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Education's future: A choice between complicity and resistance

Campus Sonar

They are also seeking to eliminate the Department of Education through extreme reductions in force among other measures. Americans support the Department of Education and oppose Presidential overreach Higher education learners past, present, and future are under attack from the current administration. Download the white paper.