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B-School Admissions Leave Students Waiting
When prospective students send questions to b-school admissions offices via Web-based forms, most would expect a response within 48 hours. However, many are often left waiting, according to InsideTrack, a firm based in San Francisco, California.
InsideTrack offers phone-based coaching and mentoring to help prospective students choose the right college. In 2010 and 2011, the company asked “secret shoppers” to pose as potential students with questions about applying to business school. The shoppers approached admissions offices at 68 U.S. business schools across all categories—traditional and online, for-profit and nonprofit, private and public—and asked questions via direct e-mail, through Web… Continue reading
InsideTrack webinar: Strategies for enhancing the success of online and military students
Veterans, active duty military personnel and online learners represent an ever increasing proportion of college entrants, yet they often lag their peers in terms of degree completion. In the webinar, Strategies for Enhancing the Success of Online and Military Students, now available on-demand, experts from public and private universities across the country discuss proven strategies for helping these students succeed in and after college. The panel shares best practices and responds to participant questions regarding ways to improve outcomes for online and military students.
Featuring:
Jody Hassen
Director, Student Services & Enrollment Management
Central Michigan University
Unfounded fears: Making higher education more affordable
Larry Cooperman
Director of OpenCourseWare
University of California, Irvine
There is a lot of anxiety right now in higher education. There is uncertainty around key financial drivers for higher education. The value of many degrees is being subjected to scrutiny. Access to student loans is undergoing significant changes. Budgets are being trimmed. Students are protesting fee increases. And there is a perceived threat from open content to the ability to charge tuition.
Given all of this, who wouldn’t be nervous? But if we start to pick apart the actual level of disruption—OpenCourseWare and MOOCs notwithstanding—we don’t yet… Continue reading
Leaders and Laggards. A State-by-State Report Card on Public Postsecondary Education.
Seventy percent of our high school graduates now move on to some form of postsecondary education, but fewer than half of those who enroll finish a degree or certificate within six years, according to a report by the Institute for a Competitive Workforce that takes a state-by-state look at higher education and identifies the best and the worst.
Download the full report at icw.uschamber.com
First do no harm: New evidence on online learning in Higher Education
By Matthew M. Chingos
Strong opinions abound on the subject of online learning in American higher education. Proponents see it as a transformative, disruptive wave of the future, whereas skeptics see it as an effort to slash costs, regardless of the impact on students.
Surely some forms of online instruction—such as posting videos of a mediocre instructor on a poorly designed website—are inferior to traditional, face-to-face instruction. But what about more sophisticated, interactive online learning systems? There is little rigorous evidence on this subject, especially at traditional public university campuses.
My colleagues at Ithaka S+R (a group… Continue reading
