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How Academic Program Review Will Transform Your Institution
January 11, 2021 - An alumnus and senior executive with a global financial services firm told me in the early 2000s that the liberal arts college I served should launch a management information systems degree. He complained that he had to hire graduates from …
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Shifting Career Mindsets from ‘Either/Or’ to ‘Both/And’ When It Comes to the Liberal Arts and Job-specific Training
December 16, 2020 - A conflicting mindset between higher education and the general public is whether broadly educating students in the tradition of a liberal education is compatible with training students with more specific, job-ready skills, specifically when it comes …
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New Challenges for the Academic Affairs Committee
Recent national events, such as the novel coronavirus pandemic and the widespread protests for racial justice, will continue to impact colleges and universities for quite some time. As these institutions seek to adjust to a changing operational and financial reality, …
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Developing an Institutional Approach toward Digital Learning Quantification
August 26, 2020 - Given that the majority of colleges and universities had to shift to some form of remote and/or online instruction this past spring and many schools will continue to do so during the fall, there is a unique opportunity for institutions …
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Managing the Transition from Classroom to Online Instruction
July 22, 2020 - Once an institution has made an earnest commitment to developing robust online courses and has put the necessary infrastructure into place, it falls to individual instructors to determine the best tools and methodologies to use in their courses. This can seem …
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Academic Planning in a Pandemic
During the spring, higher education was in crisis management mode as COVID-19 spread around the world. First, students on study abroad were called home. Then as the number of cases began to rapidly increase in the United States, colleges made …
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Advancing Affordability, Quality, and Equity: We Can Do All Three
November 21, 2019 - Too often, people see commitments to affordability, quality, and equity in postsecondary education as competing rather than reinforcing. The nation’s future and the future of our institutions—and public confidence in them—require higher education leaders to advance these commitments together. The urgent …
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The Importance of Academic Oversight
Ensuring a high-quality academic experience for all students depends on a board that understands its responsibilities with respect to the stewardship of an institution’s academic mission. Boards of trustees are tasked with multiple, demanding areas of oversight: enrollment, athletics, risk management, …
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Innovative Approaches to Enhance Student Learning
July 18, 2019 - Innovation in higher education is positively influencing student learning outcomes. More institutions are providing students with academic, financial, logistical, and social support to ease their transition to and through college. This guidance has been especially useful when there are hurtles that …
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What Do Boards Need to Know About Educational Quality?
The educational quality movement has gained a lot of momentum over the past 10 to 15 years. Trusteeship spoke with Terry Rhodes, vice president, office of quality, curriculum, and assessment and executive director of the Valid Assessment of Learning in …
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