Higher Education Enrollment Growth Briefing Podcast
1) Helix Education is now a part of RNL
This is your final Enrollment Growth Briefing from Helix Education. I’m Eric Olsen. And I’m so excited to share that Helix Education is now a part of RNL, the leading provider of higher education enro...Show More
2) Only 65% of higher ed business officers are optimistic about their institution’s financial future
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with COVID funds from the American Rescue Plan helping keep higher ed’s finances afloat during the down enrollment years of the pandemic, 65% of Chief Business Officers ...Show More
3) Online law school satisfaction moved from ½ to ¾ of students in a single year
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, in 2021, only 51% of students attending law school online rated their programs as either “excellent” or “good”. Just one year later, this number has jumped to 72%, narro...Show More
Online law school satisfaction moved from ½ to ¾ of students in a single year
01:01 | Aug 18th, 2022
4) Will VR leave the labs and make subjects like Shakespeare come to life, too?
Reported by EdSurge, new virtual reality games suggest that we’re only scratching the surface as to what immersive education will allow us to teach. For instance, Shakespeare-VR out of Carnegie Mello...Show More
Will VR leave the labs and make subjects like Shakespeare come to life, too?
01:06 | Aug 17th, 2022
5) Is online learning a more climate-friendly modality?
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, as our institutions start paying more attention to our personal carbon footprint, there is an ethical case to be made for the benefits of online education. In fact, The ...Show More
6) Our student experience improves when faculty make them feel like they belong
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a new study from the Student Experience Project showed that students’ self-assessment of their learning experience rose 10.5% when in classrooms where faculty had been tra...Show More
Our student experience improves when faculty make them feel like they belong
01:16 | Aug 15th, 2022
7) A for-profit campus has been acquired to become a metaversity
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the next generation of this concept has begun, with the acquisition of University of Antelope Island in California, whose physical campus will be digitally replicated to b...Show More
8) Nearly 2 in 5 Utah college students experience food insecurity
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, Utahns Against Hunger surveyed nearly 5,700 students for this report, which also shows that this food insecurity disproportionately affected students of color, with nearly...Show More
9) Will Monkeypox come for our campuses?
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with half of all confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. having been reported in the past two weeks, it is becoming increasingly likely that our institutions will have to ...Show More
10) Brandeis University is preparing their PhD students for jobs outside the Academy
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with tenure-track faculty options falling dramatically across the board, Brandeis is evolving their curriculum to make sure their graduates have solid postdoctoral oppor...Show More
Brandeis University is preparing their PhD students for jobs outside the Academy
00:57 | Aug 9th, 2022