A study revealed last week by Colorado Community College System (CCCS) President Dr. Nancy McCallin showed the total economic impact of the 13 colleges in the system to be an amazing $3.01 billion. This impact suggests to current college and high school students that higher education is, in fact, worth the cost
Moneyball Marketing – It’s the way that any institution with limited staff and resources can compete in a highly competitive marketplace – and win – by modelling their marketing strategies according the tenets of the ball club that revolutionized the way major league baseball teams play the game.
Higher education has had it rough lately. The scrutiny the current higher education model has been under the last few years has been intense. While there are a multitude of places you could say it started, I think Seth Godin’s post ‘The Coming Meltdown In Higher Education’ (Chronicle version here)
Will Facebook’s Groups for Schools mean more sharing with fewer people? The ability to join and participate in groups within Facebook’s infrastructure and under an official institutional focal point should be valuable, right? It’s clearly too early to tell, but there are some early indications it is not