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As institutions expand their distance education programs, administrators must formalize faculty workload expectations for the instruction of online and hybrid courses. This brief reviews faculty workload policies for both...

accreditation Academic Planning Academic Affairs

This brief examines compensation policies for department chairs and program directors at public institutions, with a particular focus on the factors that determine compensation. The report includes an analysis of department...

Faculty Compensation and Benefits Faculty Affairs Academic Affairs Faculty Workload

Institutions of all shapes and sizes are investing significant sums to expand their portfolio of online and hybrid courses without specific institutional priorities in mind, often resulting in a mix of arbitrary, sub-scale...

Program Prioritization Academic Planning Academic Affairs Online Course Quality Online Education Course Scheduling Academic Calendar Capacity planning Student Retention and Success Degree Progress Online Strategies

Institutions seeking to increase graduate enrollment consider incentivizing program growth. This report outlines ways that institutions allow graduate programs to keep surplus revenue, including tuition rebates, funding...

Graduate Education Academic Affairs Enrollment Management

Institutions increasingly offer workshops and other programs to encourage instructors to create classroom environments that do not marginalize students of diverse backgrounds. Programs address design of course curricula...

Diversity and Multiculturalism Student Experience Student Affairs Supporting Faculty Online Education Academic Affairs

This report examines how institutions schedule online and face-to-face courses and term lengths. The research provides information on the structure and implementation of full-year trimester systems. The report collects...

Academic Calendar Academic Planning Academic Affairs Online Education

Regional accreditors often desire the same metrics and data collected by professional program reviews, but may use different terminologies to describe this information; as a result, some schools must manually translate or even...

accreditation Academic Planning Academic Affairs Data Management information technology

The growth of online, hybrid, and distance courses challenges institutions to maintain content consistency across multiple platforms. This report examines the policies, standards, and practices that guide course consistency...

Academic Planning Academic Affairs Curriculum development

Academic libraries are faced with a daunting series of challenges brought on by the digital revolution. In an era when millions of books, articles, images, and videos available instantaneously via the web, libraries across all...

Academic Affairs Outsourcing Administrative Service Delivery Models Administration and Finance Space Utilization Facilities and Operations Leadership and Professional Development human resources Cost Cutting Student Experience Student Affairs Academic Support Programs Data Management information technology instructional technology Staffing Organizational Structures LIBRARY

Academic Affairs Academic Planning Program Prioritization

For the vast majority of colleges and universities, financial sustainability depends on maintaining or growing enrollment. Enrollment management discussions at the graduate level require a clear division of responsibilities...

Graduate Education Academic Affairs Enrollment Management

As institutions seek in to increase enrollments, they create centralized marketing offices that oversee all institutional branding. This report examines staff and technology resources necessary to support centralized marketing...

Marketing and Branding Enrollment Management Student Experience Student Affairs Academic Affairs

Search for New VPAA / Dean Comes to an End Alumni to Speak on AAAS Education Panel Suspense Thriller Takes UC Stage International Perspective: Chinese Student Takes on U.S. Public Transportation Sustainable Students Create...

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Expediting new program development can help universities meet student and employer demand while gaining an edge over competitors, but coordinating program development and approval requires careful preparation and execution. This...

Program Prioritization Academic Planning Academic Affairs Program Approval Curriculum development Academic Calendar Organizational Structures

As graduate schools seek to increase enrollment, faculty and staff must consider the impacts of enrollment increases on program curricula, faculty workloads, and course delivery methods. This brief examines how other...

Graduate Education Academic Affairs Academic Planning

Program directors and department chairs require different means of assessing faculty quality due to the unreliability of student course evaluation data. This report outlines alternative strategies for review committees to assess...

Evaluating Faculty Faculty Affairs Academic Affairs Course Evaluations Academic Planning

Moving Beyond Incremental Budgeting While most colleges and universities saw stable growth over the last several decades, many now face significant downward pressure on revenue. By one estimate, nearly one in ten institutions...

Academic Affairs Budgeting Administration and Finance Budget Models and Cost Allocations Debt Management Facilities and Operations Space Utilization Revenue Enhancement Tuition and Fees LIBRARY Research Enterprise Strategic planning

While colleges and universities increasingly draw upon the concept of Universal Design to create an ideal learning environment, it can be challenging to apply the concept practically in the classroom. This project explores...

Curriculum development Academic Planning Academic Affairs Space Utilization Facilities and Operations Administration and Finance

Institutions engage in academic planning to supplement strategic planning processes and guide future academic direction. This report profiles the processes seven public research institutions undertook to develop comprehensive...

Academic Planning Academic Affairs Strategic planning