Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The term “DFW rate” refers to the percentage of students in a course or program who receive a D or F, or who withdraw (W) from the course. Course completions (A, B, C) are an important indicator of student success at most colleges. Some courses are required for students to progress in a degree program.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Today WCET Frontiers welcomes Kelly Otter, Dean of the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University, to discuss the University’s program to assist refugees in the Middle East. This outstanding work will have an incredible impact for refugee students, and future work will impact the lives of students around the globe.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 4, 2017

College and university leaders are seeking to create meaningful change in higher education while continuing to face demands to be more accountable. Congress is considering the Higher Education Reform and Opportunity (HERO) Act, parts of which move accountability to the state level. At the national level, the U.S.

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Helix Education

MARCH 14, 2024

It may be overwhelming to consider where to begin in understanding what appeals to students and the needs of the labor market. It is at this intersection that academic programs align to the interests of students, the needs of the labor market, and is authentic to who your institution is at its core.

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EAB

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Gallup’s most recent poll revealed a concerning trend: only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. What sets this year’s results apart is that, for the first time, a majority of survey respondents expressed a lack of confidence in educational institutions.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Reading Time: 9 minutes As social media evolves, how students, parents, and the community communicate and share feedback about educational experiences is also changing. This year, for example, we will see a growing reliance on social media platforms for customer service and as valuable sources for school and program reviews.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 22, 2024

Department of Education would surprise us when they released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and proposed regulations related to the most recent negotiated rulemaking. Spoiler alert, they have now released the NPRM with proposed rules on distance education. We’ve been waiting with bated breath to see if the U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 20, 2023

Higher education has long been regarded as a pathway to success and the “middle class,” promising personal and professional growth opportunities. Clark Kerr’s California Experiment exacerbated this in the 1960s, transforming higher education in California and the United States.

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Helix Education

MAY 16, 2024

Student satisfaction matters for the health and wealth of your institution. If your students are not satisfied with their experience, they will either not stay enrolled (and you will lose their tuition revenue) or they will stay, but they may not be engaged alumni in the future (and you will lose their fundraising dollars).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2018

Part 3: Improving Higher Education Governance Improve your Higher Education Governance to lift your university or college up to higher levels of success. Higher education continues to be in the hot seat. However, this difficult time may prove to offer an important silver lining as a new model of higher education is forged.

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Continuous Learning Institute

MAY 15, 2022

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn why classified professionals play a critical role in student success and college operations. We are the ones speaking with students on a day-to-day basis, and we have the information to be able to support student success." This is about how do we collectively support students. AB1725 - 10+1.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And with the threat of another recession looming, EAB has received requests for guidance on higher-education philanthropy amidst uncertain times. EAB researchers have been studying the ups and downs of higher-education philanthropy for a long time now. Learn more Get more insights Things have changed—has your Annual Giving strategy?

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

EQUIS is a prestigious and rigorous accreditation system that assesses the quality of management education offered by higher education institutions. In this blog, we will explore the benefits and process of EQUIS accreditation for European higher education institutions. What is EQUIS accreditation? What is EQUIS accreditation?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2018

Perhaps no one is more affected by the changes roiling higher education than faculty members. Additionally, the pool of traditional students, i.e., those in the 18-24 age groups, is in the minority of college-goers whereas the non-traditional students (those who are 24-70 years old) make up 70 percent of the college student population.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“The limitations that we’re going to have on us as faculty to make important decisions, and to really shape the institution as it develops into the future, will profoundly influence the student experience.” ” Faculty members, Neilson continued, “are on the ground.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Congress created a distinction between the definitions of “distance education” and “correspondence education” for purposes of federal financial aid eligibility. The distinction is that distance education courses include “regular and substantive interaction” (or RSI) whereas correspondence courses do not.

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

Blogs What universities should do now in the uncertain OPM landscape Recent releases from the Department of Education have put Online Program Managers (OPMs) front and center of the news cycle. Headlines about student debt and poor student outcomes have prompted federal attention.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

And no wonder—in 1990, state-per-student funding was almost 140% more than that of the federal government. But in the last two decades, the gap between state and federal funding narrowed, with state funding per student only 12% above federal levels in 2015. This is the hard, necessary work to save higher education in the U.S.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Education is listening! We hope that you will take one or more of the opportunities described below to ask questions, share the impacts on students, and generally apprise the Department of practical information about the use of OPM’s and Third-Party Servicers at your institution. This provides students more choice.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

What benefits do staff, faculty, and students gain from better data management? In this blog post, we answer that question with examples of the transformative impact that a data management platform can have on higher education. EAB's data management platform, Edify , is built specifically for higher education.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 7, 2024

President Welch (who prefers “Chuck” whenever possible) shared what inspired him to work in the education sector, leadership’s unique perspective, painful decisions for the good of the institution, and the value of authenticity and lived experience. The students are looking out. The president is the one responding.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Today, we conclude the WCET blog series on microcredentials which set out to address the inception, implementation, and evaluation of microcredentialing approaches across the higher education industry. Shireman also invited us to consider how microcredentials impact students.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At the same time, 28 states continued to fund higher education at lower levels than before the pandemic, and the average tuition discount rate at private colleges reached an all-time high of 56.2% The number of prospective students will continue to drop after that, permanently falling another 21% by 2100, despite a slight bump in the 2030s.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2006, when I was an assistant professor on the tenure track, I wrote an essay that was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Those were the early(ish) days of the assessment movement in higher education and I was feeling the pain. Still, there are some things that students must know.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Assessing online courses—OSCQR rubric August 9, 2023 George Rus Assistant Dean for Online Education, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And with an increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies now touching and impacting many colleges and universities, now is the time for higher ed leaders to strive to support and understand how accreditation can improve overall to strengthen post-secondary education even more.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 9, 2024

NBA Process Explained admin Wed, 07/10/2024 - 02:04 Indian education system is evolving and the National Board of Accreditation(NBA) is leading the transformation. It is by far the most important criteria to judge the efficacy of diploma, undergraduate and post-graduate programs taught in India. What is NBA Accreditation?

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Directorate Board members will serve a three-year term and lead education and outreach activities of the commission. Our task is to break down silos between educators and education in the academic and co-curricular realms. Please review my professional background on LinkedIn/in/divyabheda. higher education.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A Guide to the Accreditation Process with the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) editor Thu, 02/16/2023 - 04:07 Overview of NCAAA Saudi Arabia The 2030 vision for Saudi Arabia is causing a rapid change in the country's higher education standards. There is a greater emphasis on value education everywhere.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

El Camino College (ECC) used Edify , EAB’s data and analytics solution, to combine and standardize data from their LMS (Canvas) and SIS (Colleague) into a unified student record. Having a single source of truth for student data has empowered campus decision-makers to be more strategic in the way they support their students.

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EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

groan, but they point to an underlining need for newer and better technologies to scale our efforts and provide a modern student experience. Your change leadership toolkit The advice in this post is garnered from workshops I lead to help higher education leaders become change champions. This particular step often feels uncomfortable.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

This is especially common in higher education, where many consumers’ jobs involve questioning assumptions. If you hear: What does your report mean when it says "student"? You might say: In the data dictionary, we defined ‘student’ as, “anyone enrolled in coursework, after census, in the Fall of this year.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

The introduction and rollout of the new Better FASFA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form has led to a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and concerns among students, caregivers, and educators.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The Office of Federal Student Aid has not used secret shoppers before.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2023

Institutional accreditation is a quality assurance process that provides colleges and universities access to critical resources once attained: federal financial aid, the ability to transfer and accept student transcripts and credits, and the increased likelihood of degree acceptance from employers and other higher ed institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Education (ED) announced additional steps to facilitate submitting the 2024–25 FAFSA form. Last week, ED announced $50 million in funding for personnel and resources, including technical assistance and support, deployed to support institutions, students and their families with Better FAFSA®. On Monday, the U.S.

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