Higher education leadership requires more than content knowledge or operational expertise. It calls for emotional intelligence, political savvy, narrative power and a deep well of self-awareness.
Higher education leadership requires more than content knowledge or operational expertise. It calls for emotional intelligence, political savvy, narrative power and a deep well of self-awareness.
Upskilling for the green economy isn’t about preparing a select few for specialized roles—it’s about embedding skills across all sectors and meeting learners where they are.
When work-based learning is integrated directly into coursework, students don’t have to choose between learning and earning or between academic success and career readiness.
By embracing collaborative, human-centered technology ecosystems, higher ed can stabilize enrollment and enhance student engagement, even amid ongoing disruption.
Students are investing in their futures. Colleges and universities must align curriculum with workforce realities and bring in outside expertise where it counts.
Recovering revenue and retaining students through pre-collections will determine which institutions can weather the uncertainty facing higher education today.
The concept follows on the heels of a similar plan for a group of community colleges to offer a 4-year degree in nursing. Both nursing and teaching are areas where the state has a workforce shortage, at least in certain job categories, like special education, and in rural Oregon.
Although paying this tab is easy, getting in may not be. Each of these schools has high academic standards, experts say—and in return for a degree at no cost, the commitment they require, even after graduation, is steep.
