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Add your voice to a discussion on nontraditional students in higher education
Kai Drekmeier
President and Founder
InsideTrack
We are conducting a survey of a broad spectrum of innovators, change agents, and other leaders in higher education on how to improve outcomes for nontraditional students. We plan to capture our findings in a Leadership Report on Issues and Ideas in Higher Education—which will in turn form the foundation for a Virtual Leadership Summit in 2012. This initiative closely follows our practice of hosting ongoing Leadership Forums that bring together senior administrators in cities across the country.
We would like to add your voice to the discussion, so please email me your… Continue reading
Posted in Persistence and Graduation
Editorial by Margaret A. Miller: College Then and Now
The school system that worked so well for me seems to have become dysfunctional. A former teacher tells me that students in his classes come and go as their parents move in and out of jobs, making it close to impossible to develop the class’s understanding of algebra over the course of a semester. The schools still haven’t figured out how to adapt to these changing realities of students’ lives.
Continue reading: changemag.org
How Are We Defining College Readiness?
The New York City Department of Education took a bold step recently when revealing for the first time how well high schools are preparing students for higher education or well-paying careers.
According to information included in the latest school report cards, only one in four students who enter high school in New York City is ready for college after four years, and fewer than half enroll.
Apparently the city’s measure of college readiness is based largely on data from the City University of New York, but that baseline may not be pushing students… Continue reading
Healthy competition – good for the student and good for the university
Kai Drekmeier
President and Founder
InsideTrack
At the recent CAEL International Conference, I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel with senior administrators from three universities in the Chicago area. A key take-away from this session was that competitive differentiation goes beyond the marketing strategies and brand of the university and into the institutional infrastructure. A significant competitive differentiator in nontraditional higher education lies between those universities that are geared to the adult learner and those that are not. That point became really clear once we opened the session to questions. Without student-centric processes and support, a university can’t… Continue reading
The rise of nontraditional doctoral programs
Dr. James P. Pappas
Vice President of Continuing Education
University of Oklahoma,
College of Continuing Education
The traditional doctorate, the PhD, is a product of the Middle Ages. It is a program of rigorous graduate study, culminating in the production of an academic equipped to function as a faculty member on a university campus. The nontraditional doctorate is something quite different and produces a different result: a practitioner. Aside from the Doctor of Medicine (MD) and the Juris Doctorate (JD), the first nontraditional doctorates, or practice doctorates, appeared… Continue reading
