In its report "Navigating The New Normal: Financial Imperatives For MSI Effectiveness and Avoiding Financial Exigency," the Southern Education Foundation suggests that trustees could better understand their institutions' financial health with answers to these questions. 1. What is the discount rate for entering freshmen versus for continuing students? 2. What is the blended discount rate? Link […]

Better academic performance. Increased student retention and graduation rates. Improved sense of campus community. Online exclusive: Edtech providers on student/faculty ties These are just three benefits that closer ties among faculty and students can yield. Here are nine places to foster such connections.  Service-learning sites Tactic: Engage with the community through formal and informal service-learning projects. […]

For several decades scholars in a variety of disciplines have argued about the relationship between knowledge and rhetoric, investigating the inherent connections between how we know what we know and how we communicate what we know. These debates have been primarily theoretical, provoking some to wonder about the practical consequences of the discussion. What better […]

When we think of the students served by institutions of higher education, we usually think of young adults the age of undergraduate and graduate students.  But colleges and universities often offer programs to children and adolescents under the age of eighteen and as young as pre-kindergarten. These children and adolescents are more vulnerable than older […]