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Feb. 19, 2025

What Online Education Can Learn from Social Media

Should online learning be more like social media?  The question may seem taboo as the discourse around many social platforms turns increasingly negative with very legitimate concerns raised by parents and lawmakers about their impact on wellbe…

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Feb. 18, 2025

Bellevue University and AWS Cloud Institute: Teaming Up to Impact the Future of Cloud Computing’s Talent Pipeline

The cloud revolution is here, and it’s moving fast. Organizations across every industry—finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, government and others — are migrating to the cloud, leveraging its power to drive innovation, effic…

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Feb. 7, 2025

Sparking Ideas One Step at a Time

It’s no secret that sometimes, our best thinking is done when we are away from our desks.   Like many other higher education leaders, I think creatively all the time. But perhaps my best ideas ignite when I’m on my daily run o…

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Feb. 5, 2025

Teaching Is Hard, Until You Do This

Later today (or tomorrow or Monday), millions of teachers in millions of classrooms will stand in front of millions of students and try to explain millions of things. These teachers will try as hard as they can to help every student learn. Unfortun…

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Feb. 3, 2025

Beyond Acceptance: Preparing Students for Career Success

When our daughter was accepted to her dream school, we popped champagne and felt like we'd conquered the ultimate parental challenge. Soon enough, reality set in—college acceptance isn't the finish line.  As her college years unfolded, a…

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Jan. 31, 2025

Lessons Learned From The Establishment And Closure Of Union Institute And University

Union Institute & University (UI&U) – Born: 1964, Died: 2024 For sixty years, UI&U engaged, enlightened, and empowered an extremely diverse student population transforming them into scholars, leaders, researchers, and socially-jus…

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Jan. 28, 2025

More Than Dusty Shelves: How Digital Resources Can Revolutionize College Libraries

The 2022 Library Journal College Student Library Usage survey revealed that many students felt they did not accurately understand what resources were available to them through their campus libraries and wished there were more resources to help them …

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Jan. 27, 2025

The Purpose of the University and the Challenge of the Future Workforce

In times of profound social and labor transformations, universities must rethink their role in the contemporary world. Artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and the rapid changes in the labor market are reshaping how we live, work, and le…

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Jan. 20, 2025

Challenging Times Call for Accepting Reality, Shared Leadership, and a Long-Term Lens

As higher education institutions continue to face challenges in our post-pandemic world, one of the most common challenges is related to budget shortfalls and deficits resulting from enrollment declines suffered during the pandemic and now exacerbat…

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Jan. 16, 2025

Technology is Transforming Society, But Not Learning. The Nation Needs A Plan To Fix That.

Over the last few decades, technology has transformed medicine in ways that once seemed unimaginable. Genetic testing, AI-driven diagnostics, and advances in imaging allow doctors to diagnose and treat diseases with precision and personalization.&nb…

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