Over the last few months we have conducted several focus group sessions with faculty and directors of University Teaching and Learning Centres (TLCs) to gain insight into the special needs…
Benchmarking Student Career Development
In our discussions with university program leadership we have found a great deal of interest in getting more involved in their student’s career development. Career development has traditionally not…
New Survey Says Only a Third of College Students Feel Prepared for Job Market and Workplace
Overall, only about a third of college students feel prepared that they’ll graduate with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the job market and in the…
Consolidation, Collaboration or Closure? How Colleges Stay Alive in 2018
This is an interest article covering a round table discussion on the future of American higher education institutions, where any are now facing tough decisions on survival. Of particular…
A Checklist for Transformative Leaders
Higher-education transformation, which is essential if colleges and universities are to survive in the 21st century, relies on transformative presidential leadership. Twenty-seven years ago, Judy B. Rosener, now a…
Recent survey on student preparation suggests lack of confidence, not lack of skills
The results of a recent survey on student preparation for the workforce suggest that students are not as prepared as they should be, but John Warner argues that the data…
On ‘Experiential Learning’
In his classic 1963 study Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter convincingly argues that Americans’ suspicion of purely intellectual pursuits extends even to our thinking about how to structure and value…
University courses using Acadiate Clusters as an in-class sharing tool
As an education technology entrepreneur and advocate for enabling improved student employability outcomes, it is always interesting to see how your platform is being used in new ways that drive…
The Ph.D. Skill Mismatch
Senior faculty members frequently tell doctoral students in English and foreign languages to “just do research all the time” and to “view everything else as a distraction,” said the author…
Many graduates struggling to make the leap from school to career
Josh Grant had no idea how tough it would be to embark on a career when he graduated from Western University with a business degree four years ago. “I got…