Category: Curriculum Planning and Development
To help students understand how global “grand challenges” cut across multiple fields, a growing number of colleges and universities are creating courses, faculty clusters, and even entire academic tracks that take a multidisciplinary approach to ...
There is no doubt that STEM is sexy. Increasing tuition prices and consequent student loan amounts drive students and families to seek ROI on their educational investment. To many, this translates into a major that ...
As an online administrator, I can tell you that it feels like we have been talking about ways to improve faculty buy-in for online education for the past 10 to 15 years. And we have. ...
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 ...
More than ever, education can and should prepare students for global understanding and competency. Traditional study abroad programs, which provide excellent opportunities, are often not considered by nor available to students until later in their ...
Declining enrollment is a problem in higher education, and it's only going to get worse. As Nathan Grawe explains in his book "Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education," when the economy slowed in 2008, ...
While research is a vital tool for graduate students and graduate programs, unfortunately, little or no research is done on the undergraduate level. When people think of research, they often connect it with science and ...
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 ...
Distance and online education continue to be the bright spots in higher education enrollment, but the nature of this type of study has evolved from an “any time, any place” model tauted at distance education’s ...
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 ...
