This article is an excerpt from Sue Ohrablo’s acclaimed book High-Impact Advising: A Guide for Academic Advisors, which you can find here. Ask anyone who has worked with adult students the major challenges that adult students face and they will tell you work, family, health, and finances. Each of these challenge areas poses a threat to […]
SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION SERIES The US Department of Education has awarded multi-million dollar “First in the World” grants to 24 colleges and universities that are innovating to solve critical challenges with access, recruitment, retention, and student success. At AI, we have interviewed each of the recipients to learn more about the projects these institutions are […]
January 2015. While states and institutions across the country experiment to find successful funding formulas, all will agree that performance-based funding (also termed outcomes-based funding) is once again gaining momentum. A majority (60%) of states have already adopted measures to allocate public funding on the basis of outcomes, and many more plan to follow suit.The […]
With their new “Measure of Grace” initiative, Grace College is working to keep their undergraduate degrees affordable and incentivize student persistence and completion. A few years ago, the college began offering the option to complete all of their bachelor’s degrees as three-year degrees. Now, with “Measure of Grace,” the college is: “We could have just […]
How can SA professionals best use social media? How do you serve students and satisfy the demands of regulatory compliance? What will “move the needle” on completion rates? On February 9, Marla Whipple, a senior director of in-person events at Academic Impressions, moderated a free panel (you can access a recording here)– with 335 institutions attending — where […]
by Lisa Cook, Academic Impressions Why We’re Taking a Close Look at FAU Florida Atlantic University has piloted several innovative strategies for providing students more timely advising and support. In fall 2014, FAU’s University Advising Services office started a resident hall outreach but struggled to come up with a plan to reach out to commuter […]
by Patrick Cain (Academic Impressions) The Current State of P3’s in Higher Ed “We simply need to isolate a revenue stream.” This recurring sentiment from a recent Academic Impressions conference on Financing Campus Facilities through Public Partnerships seems to at once highlight the challenge and the innovation that has defined the swift evolution of P3’s […]
Gretchen Dobson LLC) February 2015. I’ve experienced two New Year’s in the last two months. First was the calendar end of December 31 that we rang in while standing in a customs line at midnight in Chengdu’s international airport. The second has been a more gradual celebration in China that started to peak over the […]
SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION SERIES The US Department of Education has awarded multi-million dollar “First in the World” grants to 24 colleges and universities that are innovating to solve critical challenges with access, recruitment, retention, and student success. At AI, we have interviewed each of the recipients to learn more about the projects these institutions are […]
SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION SERIES The US Department of Education has awarded multi-million dollar “First in the World” grants to 24 colleges and universities that are innovating to solve critical challenges with access, recruitment, retention, and student success. At AI, we have interviewed each of the recipients to learn more about the projects these institutions are […]
