Only 65% of higher ed business officers are optimistic about their institution’s financial future. Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with COVID funds from the American Rescue Plan helping keep higher ed’s finances afloat during the down enrollment years of the pandemic, 65% of Chief Business Officers believe their institutions will be financially stable over the […]

Online law school satisfaction moved from ½ to ¾ of students in a single year. Reported by Inside Higher Ed, in 2021, only 51% of students attending law school online rated their programs as either “excellent” or “good”. Just one year later, this number has jumped to 72%, narrowing the gap between in-person satisfaction, currently […]

Will VR leave the labs and make subjects like Shakespeare come to life, too? Reported by EdSurge, new virtual reality games suggest that we’re only scratching the surface as to what immersive education will allow us to teach. For instance, Shakespeare-VR out of Carnegie Mellon University is based out of the premise that Shakespeare is […]

Is online learning a more climate-friendly modality? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, as our institutions start paying more attention to our personal carbon footprint, there is an ethical case to be made for the benefits of online education. In fact, The University of Michigan Dearborn reported a $570,000 cost savings from utilities during the first […]

Our student experience improves when faculty make them feel like they belong. Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a new study from the Student Experience Project showed that students’ self-assessment of their learning experience rose 10.5% when in classrooms where faculty had been trained to help promote social belonging in the classroom. This study included 10,000 […]

In the last decade, we saw a trend of for-profit online institutions purchasing failing non-profit institutions. In most cases, this was to grab their accreditation and also to grab the idea of a campus experience existing, even if their online students would never experience it. Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the next generation of this […]

Nearly 2 in 5 Utah college students experience food insecurity. Reported by Higher Ed Dive, Utahns Against Hunger surveyed nearly 5,700 students for this report, which also shows that this food insecurity disproportionately affected students of color, with nearly half experiencing food insecurity. The takeaway? Prior to the pandemic, college students weren’t even eligible for […]

Will Monkeypox come for our campuses? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with half of all confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. having been reported in the past two weeks, it is becoming increasingly likely that our institutions will have to deal with both Monkeypox and COVID protocols when students return this fall. The takeaway? We […]

Brandeis University is preparing their PhD students for jobs outside the Academy. Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with tenure-track faculty options falling dramatically across the board, Brandeis is evolving their curriculum to make sure their graduates have solid postdoctoral opportunity pathways. This includes funding both on- and off-campus internships to help students diversify their experiences. […]