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Inside the Studio with Dr. George Kuh – Hosted by Dr. Mike Coomes, Bowling Green State University
By Phil Legate
InsideTrack Advisory Board member George Kuh was recently interviewed by Dr. Mike Coomes, Bowling Green State University. Based on the popular television series “Inside the Actors Studio”, this session explores the life and ideas of Dr. George Kuh.
Read more about the interview: plegate.blogspot.com
Customized Pricing in Higher Education
By John Lawlor
Tis the season for the college spring, that period of time when the higher education marketplace is focused on price and the accompanying cost to attend college. While colleges struggle with finding the right price to charge, students and families are on a quest to find the best price to pay. What often seems to be lost in the reenactment of the game show “The Price is Right” is that higher education has been practicing a form of customized differential pricing for quite some time—it just hasn’t been communicated very effectively.
This week we offer a… Continue reading
Hispanics are crucial to college completion goals
By Daniel de Vise
The numbers suggest Hispanics are making astonishing gains in college attainment. From 2001 to 2011, the number of Hispanics with at least a bachelor’s degree nearly doubled from 2.1 million to 3.8 million, and overall attainment rose from 11 percent to 14 percent. A study released last year by the Pew Hispanic Center found enrollment of Hispanic students aged 18 to 24 rose by 24 percent in a single year, a gain of such magnitude that I made some inquiries to double-check the numbers.
Yet, an attainment gap persists. Another recent report from Excelencia in… Continue reading
Add your voice to a report on the key challenges facing the future of higher education
Kai Drekmeier
President and Founder
InsideTrack
The latest Inside Higher Ed survey of Chief Academic Officers found that more than 75 percent of CAOs list “improving retention and degree completion” as a top challenge/issue facing their campus over the next two to three years. To facilitate meaningful conversation around this issue, InsideTrack is surveying of a broad spectrum of innovators, change agents, and other leaders in higher education and preparing a Leadership Report on Issues and Ideas in Higher Education.
We would like to add your voice to the discussion, so please email me your thoughts on any of the following… Continue reading
Making the Case for Structural Organizational Change — Reconstituting a Division into a College
Philip DiSalvio, Ed.D.
Dean
University College
University of Massachusetts Boston
The traditional higher education organizational structure – one with discipline-based silos that control the means of degree production – is a characteristic common to many institutions in the United States.
There are a number of valid reasons for such a discipline-based college structure to have existed. But in a time where public institutions are receiving less state funding and private independents are looking for ways to bolster their bottom lines, higher educational organizational designs that are structurally at odds with financial sustainability require some examination.
Some… Continue reading
