Higher Education Blog
Subscribe to Blog
-
-
Recent Posts
- Three college admissions lessons from a decade of work in student success
- Don’t spend another dollar on adult student marketing until you read this
- Ensuring Retention Among Distance Learners
- Quick Poll: One controversial question. Two possible answers.
- Quick Poll: One controversial question. Two possible answers.
Tags
access adult education adult learners Adult Learning affordability Angela Duckworth APSCU assessment Best practices budget budget cuts career education careers career training Center for American Progress college affordability college readiness community college community colleges continuing education cost cost of education cost of higher education David Brooks DeVry distance learing distance learning employer recruiting enrollment management financial aid for-profit education for-profits gainful employment George Kuh GI Bill graduate education higher education Higher Learning Commission improving outcomes income increase graduation rate InsideTrack Institutional Accountability and Reporting Kai Drekmeier Louis Soares low-income students nontraditional students Obama online education online learning outcomes persistence poll president's survey quality regulation Research student aid student coaching student debt student engagement student enrollment student loans student outcomes student retention student services Student success student support technology thought leadership three year degree programs tuition costs undergraduate education UPCEA veteransArchives
Categories
Recent Comments
- Kathryn Orscheln on Add your voice to a report on the key challenges facing the future of higher education
- Dr. C. Sue McCullough on Add your voice to a report on the key challenges facing the future of higher education
- Sue Day-Perroots on Add your voice to a report on the key challenges facing the future of higher education
- trendadmin on An inspirational defense of a liberal education for adults
- Bob Bechill, CAPT, USN Retired on Serving those who serve: Coaching students in uniform
Tag Archives: thought leadership
Small businesses gift local this holiday season
At InsideTrack in downtown Portland, the year-end cash came with a different condition. The educational coaching company told employees last week that it would reimburse as much as $125 of any purchase made on locally made goods.
“The more local, the better,” chief executive Alan Tripp said. “We could have given away Amazon gift certificates, but then most of the stuff there is actually made in China.”
One worker plans to spend the cash to make Christmas dinner with Portland products. Another wants to give gifts from… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged budget, InsideTrack, thought leadership
Video: What Does it Mean to Be Educated in the 21st Century?
This session from Techonomy 2011 in Tucson features Ángel Cabrera of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Andrew Rosen of Kaplan, Inc., and Maria M. Klawe of Harvey Mudd College. Justin Fox of Harvard Business Review moderates.
Watch now: livestream.com
Motivation a better predictor of professional success than I.Q.
According to University of Pennsylvania Professor Angela Lee Duckworth, her recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that, “IQ score predicted life outcomes, including academic performance in adolescence and criminal convictions, employment, and years of education in early adulthood. (But) After adjusting for the influence of test motivation, however, the predictive validity of intelligence for life outcomes was significantly diminished, particularly for nonacademic outcomes.”
Posted in Persistence and Graduation
Tagged Angela Duckworth, outcomes, Student success, thought leadership
Online education a “disruptive innovator” in the higher ed landscape
Louis Soares, director of postsecondary education at the Center for American Progress stated recently that enrollment gains at online higher education programs, including The University of Phoenix and Kaplan University, suggest that online education has the potential to be a “disruptive innovator” in higher education, in much the same way that cellular phones “disrupted the land line-based model.”
Posted in Online Education
Tagged Center for American Progress, for-profits, Louis Soares, thought leadership
Providing multiple paths, including career training, is key to post-secondary education reform
George R. Boggs, President and CEO, American Association of Community Colleges, responded to The Harvard Graduate School of Education “Pathways to Prosperity” study, stating, “Anyone who cares about the future of America should read this report. Our nation’s adolescents and young adults must be better prepared for today’s and tomorrow’s more technical jobs. We cannot afford to leave anyone behind.”
