weekly round-up 6.24.11

Saying More With Less
“Mission statements, despite being referenced as the philosophical essences of their respective institutions, don’t get much respect on college campuses. Often wordy and cumbersome, they don’t get the airtime or T-shirt placement enjoyed by new advertising slogans or the classic Latin motto … But University of Rochester Provost Ralph W. Kuncl wanted something else in 2009 when he began the process of creating the first university-wide mission statement in Rochester’s almost 160-year history. He wanted something creative that would stick in people’s minds.”

Brand Transformation and Fear
“Brand transformation (like personal transformation) requires a passion driven decision to add to the growth of the world. It requires creating opportunity by first bringing new value to people, rather than competing for the value already created by others.” [read more]

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weekly round-up 6.17.11

Bill Warner’s iPad Program at Cambridge Friends School—Results Are in
“One of the teachers, Ms. Chandler, spoke to the heightened engagement and affinity to learn she has witnessed over the past few months with these students. ‘Students are engaged in the material. They love sharing content as well as tips on using the technology. And while we as teachers make jokes about how there are such things as books still, [we] feel certain that our students are often learning more than they would have without the iPads.’”

Colleges Adapt to New Kinds of Students from Abroad
“The foreign students on American college campuses today are not those of generations past. They are younger … They are from more countries than ever and yet likelier to be from a single country, China … This changing profile presents challenges both academic and cultural to colleges across the United States. International-student offices are dealing with issues as varied as plagiarism, poor language skills, country-specific cliques, and cultural taboos against counseling.” [read more]

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weekly round-up 6.3.11

‘The End of Internationalization?’
“As internationalization has moved from a fringe to core university activity, it remains imperative for professionals to scrutinize what they’re working toward and why. Every university now says it wants to be ‘international,’ but what does that mean—as Knight said, ‘internationalization has become a catch-all phrase for everything’—and to what end?”

Review: How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck
“How To Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck shows readers how to engage their audience using clear, concise concepts that even video novices can master the minute they pick up a video camera. This isn’t about how to work the camera—instead, this is about how to make great video using Stockman’s experience as a producer, writer and director.” [read more]

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weekly round-up 5.27.11

Discounting the Bottom Line
“Private colleges and universities discounted tuition at unprecedented levels during the recession in a way that slowed down or reversed the growth in net revenue from tuition, according to a new report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers.” 

How to Sell a Liberal Arts College Education to More Career-Minded Prospective Students
In response to the “Is College Worth It?” survey, Colgate University has created a new website called “Success After College.” “In these tough economic times, more and more institutions need to convince (or let’s say reassure) the main stakeholders that a college education will help students get a great career and a well-paid job worth the investment in time and money.” [read more]

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weekly round-up 5.20.11

Our Overblown Paranoia About the Internet and Teens
“The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a report in March on the risks posed to youth on the Internet and how doctors like me should address the issue. Yet accurate numbers about how often teens are exposed to or affected by e-risks don’t exist. You may, for example, learn that sexting is rare and that only 4 percent of teenagers have sent sexually explicit messages or images on their cell phones, but another survey may tell you the number is as high as 30 percent. Disparate numbers exist for other e-risks as well, mostly because these surveys have wildly variable definitions of what they’re measuring … as well as the age range of subjects.”

Business in Context
“A ‘vast abyss’ exists in what we know about management education programs around the world, and ‘cross-border collaborative projects may yet prove to be the most underutilized mechanism with the greatest potential,’ according to a recent report on the globalization of management education.” [read more]

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