Tag: program development
Starting a new program at a large comprehensive institution of higher education can be a daunting but rewarding task. This program took place in the College of Education at an institution with more than 17,000 ...
Developing an educational program at a college or university encompasses a broad spectrum of human and technical components. Wrapped into these essentials are numerous considerations, such as: demand for the program (including immediate and projected ...
As anyone who works in higher education knows, budgets aren’t what they used to be. Tuition seems to be on an ever-increasing upward spiral, yet money is somehow still tight. To compound institutional financial and ...
Since the nineteenth century, pundits have predicted, at best, an ambivalence toward the future of liberal education (Koch 1977) and, at worst, the doom of liberal education and liberal arts colleges in the United States ...
In recent issues of Academic Leader, we discussed the importance of increasing student retention and included descriptions of several campus-level retention programs or interventions that work. While it is wise to start the process of ...
To make transformational change, one must take certain considerations into account. articles about the topic. There is a gap, however, in information about taking institutions from the undergraduate level to the graduate level. Academic leaders ...
Small institutions face their own unique set of challenges when it comes to starting an online program. “There are commonalities among small institutions as they think about their place in online learning,” says Vickie Cook, ...
