The fall out of the pandemic has placed a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to career outcomes for higher education students. With so many businesses closing, students have…
Ontario Universities’ Guidance Dialogues virtual event for 3,000 high school guidance counsellors
This year, many university and college on-campus and open house events were delayed or cancelled. This was extremely unfortunate because open houses and campus tours are important in helping students…
Moving Fund Raising Events Online
School’s and charities have been challenged in 2020 to maintain their connections with donors and their revenues as social distancing measures have driven cancelations of in-person events. Well designed and…
Virtual University Open Houses for student recruitment
With the pandemic, schools have been cancelling or rolling back their usage of Open House’s and campus tours to comply with varying public health requirements for the pandemic. This is…
The 6 top needs of faculty to make their teaching portfolio more effective in 2020
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…