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5 Ways Your Business School Can Help Transfer Students Succeed Transfer students make up a substantive number鈥攁round 38%鈥攐f all students currently pursuing a college degree. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center鈥檚 most recent Transfer and Mobility report , more than one million first-time freshmen in 2011 transferred to...

Strategies that promote synergy between donor interests and university priorities. Philanthropy has been a valuable resource for American higher education that dates back centuries. Today, public higher education advancement teams are more important than ever in achieving support from constituents to achieve their institutions鈥� goals, as public funding for these...

Elevating the relationship between tenure-track and non-track faculty. Over the past few decades, academic tenure in North America has experienced a significant shift. Across the United States in particular, post-secondary institutions are employing non-tenure-track faculty in greater numbers than ever before. Depending on the particular institution, these faculty may be...

In today鈥檚 uber-competitive MBA landscape, business schools are challenged not only to stay relevant to the evolving nature of the business world but also keep pace with the shifting needs of MBA candidates and employers. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council鈥檚 recent market intelligence, the top curriculum 鈥渕ust-haves鈥� desired...

In the past year, three out of five college students felt 鈥渙verwhelming anxiety,鈥� and two out of five students were 鈥渢oo depressed to function,鈥� according to a recent survey by the American College Health Association. It is clear that for some of our country鈥檚 21 million college students, the pressures...

Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of interest across business schools in entrepreneurial courses and experiences to help students who aspire to start their own ventures and prepare the next generation of business leaders with a toolkit that enables them to solve the challenges of tomorrow. To...

As many of us would agree, four years is often the generally accepted amount of time we associate with college. Families and students start thinking about and saving for a college education, and yet more often than not, those who persist through graduation take upwards of six to eight years...

A recent poll from Gallup indicates a sharp decline of confidence in U.S. colleges and universities among U.S. adults. The decline is strongest among Republicans, whose confidence level dropped by 17 percent. Similarly, a Pew Research Center survey found last year that six-in-ten Americans believe higher education in the U.S...

Tracking data on students can be challenging. Various groups, from recruiting to advising to career development, may use their own tracking systems ranging from Excel spreadsheets, emails and anecdotal information; and these different methods do not interconnect. As a result, the student experience can be disjointed, and valuable opportunities to...

In routine annual faculty performance evaluations, normalizing these evaluations across different academic fields can be challenging. Leeds School of Business at the 麻豆影院 uses academic analytics to do this and as a result has built trust among faculty by creating a transparent methodology for assessing performance. A...