Hispanic community leader Juan Salgado has been appointed chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship, he leads Instituto del Progreso Latino, a nonprofit that helps low-income, Latino immigrants attain education, training and employment. In 2010, Salgado opened a health science careers charter school. The City Colleges faculty […]

Often, student success efforts are focused primarily on retaining first-year students, but fail to continue supporting students throughout their college careers. At the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, the institution’s leadership wanted to take a broader approach to student success by developing a predictive model that would include upperclassmen.  In this web seminar, the vice chancellor […]

George Bruton, CEO/Founder, SkoolLive How did you come up with the idea for SkoolLive?  My mom is a school teacher, so school has always been a big part of my life. I’ve always been an “Ad Tech” kind of guy and wanted to help schools improve the technology they use on campus and improve school-to-student communication. Our […]

The growing demand for mental health treatment on campuses resulted in part from a national effort, mounted over the last decade or so, to eliminate stigmas and get more students to seek help when grappling with emotional distress. At the same time, a heightened need for crisis care has forced colleges and universities to shift […]