Many alumni face the same dilemma when they take out their checkbook to give their annual donation to their alma matter: Where do they allocate their donation? Most large universities include multiple colleges not to mention the various scholarships, programs and projects alumni must choose from. An article that highlights the Directed Giving strategy argues […]

Now that the dust is beginning to settle from the political tsunami created by the campaign vitriol, many folks in the education community are ready to challenge the subliminal messages of building the wall, deporting the immigrants, and removing the safety nets that support the Nation’s underserved Latino populations.     Significantly, The National Center for […]

Matthew and Joyce Walsh Family Hall of Architecture University of Notre Dame (Indiana) The new, classically inspired home of Notre Dame’s architectural school, funded in part by a $27 million donation from the Walsh family, is a 100,000-square-foot edifice located at the south end of campus. The two-story building, surrounding a court, will include classrooms, […]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Although no one is sure what changes are ahead for our country once political outsider Donald Trump takes office, in most ways it’ll be business as usual for higher education leaders—who for years have been managing in an economic climate requiring that they accomplish more […]

A facilities administrator from a suburban institution of 5,000 to 10,000 students says his department faces three challenging realities: increased pressure to reduce operation costs, diminishing resources and a rising deferred maintenance program. Those sentiments are echoed in results from UB’s survey of 44 campus facilities leaders. More than half believe deferred maintenance will become […]

Keeping student tuition and fees down is the top priority for 2017 selected by campus CFOs and other finance department administrators in a UB survey—yet tuition revenue and nontuition student fees are the biggest anticipated funding categories for the coming year. Among the 64 administrators responding, 70 percent say these fees will increase modestly or significantly, […]

Ensuring students are prepared for college and then do well academically, emotionally, physically and financially are key goals of student success initiatives on campuses today.  And these programs aren’t on the minds of only administrators whose day-to-day jobs involve supporting students in these ways. Top institutional officials have student success on their minds—most of them […]

Maenette K.P. Ah Nee-Benham is the new chancellor of the University of Hawai’i West O’ahu. A native Hawaiian, Benham was previously the inaugural dean of the Hawai’inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at University of Hawai’i Manoa, the only college of indigenous knowledge at a Research I institution in the U.S. In 2015 she was honored […]