Higher Education Newsletters
...thoughtful commentary. Memberships are available online, and each membership includes access to the online archives. Higher Education Newsletters for Academic Professionals Academic Leader Helps deans, chairs, and other academic decision...
What Students Are Looking For In An Institution
...students looked for when selecting a college. Survey authors conclude, “It’s possible that the Ivy Leagues’ highly selective nature and community colleges’ ‘come one, come all’ policy mean that the...
Promoting Faculty Development on a Tight Budget
...to bring faculty together outside the classroom, and a common way to do so together is with food and drink. Try out a lunch period and complement it with coffee—or...
Why Alternative Credentials Are Critical to Institutional Success
...to prepare one’s graduates. While members of the business community will often give helpful, positive commentary on the knowledge the institution’s graduates bring to the professional environment, they may also...
Checklists: An Academic Leadership Tool
...an excuse for mindlessness; they’re a recognition of how complex our lives have become. It’s the humble checklist that keeps us safe when a pilot makes a pre-safety inspection, and...
Stepping Out of Silos: Building Best Practices for Academic Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness
...the American community college. New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011(153), 37-52. Ryan, T. (2015). Quality assurance in higher education: A review of literature. Higher Learning Research Communications, 5(4), 1-12. doi:10.18870/hlrc.v5i4.257...
Promoting and Encouraging Undergraduate Research
...at-large division for college administrators and other disciplines. Acceptance into a CUR program is very selective and limited, and competition for acceptance is very competitive. The value of such programs...
Why Republicans Distrust Higher Education (and What We Can Do about It)
...Lorenzetti is the editor of Academic Leader and the chair of the Leadership in Higher Education Conference. She is the owner of Hilltop Communications (www.hilltopcommunications.net). She is also the author...
Pitfalls of Using Student Comments in the Evaluation of Faculty
...a fair practice? Research on Student Comments What do studies of student comments reveal about their utility? First, comment response rates are likely to be low. As has been widely...
Throw the BUMs out: Higher Education Acronyms Impede Communication
...must begin advisement the moment they stepped on campus. The university would hire professional advisors to serve the students as they completed their general education requirements. When the students began...