International The precarious workforce: An ongoing threat to quality higher education | As full-time professors retire, universities are not replacing tenure-stream positions at the same rate; instead, more and more courses are being taught on a contract basis (remunerated per course) or through limited-term or sessional positions (where instructors teachContinue Reading
Now available on Amazon.com, Outsourcing Student Success, the first independent scholarship on the one hundred year history of institutional research in higher education. Colleges and universities have engaged in a bewildering succession of reform efforts to improve institutional performance and student success in higher education since the 1960s, with littleContinue Reading
International Venezuela’s universities feel the sting of economic and political crisis | Venezuela’s economic and political crisis has sparked food and medical shortages, the world’s highest inflation rate and allegations of a power grab by the ruling socialists. But it is also threatening the country’s future by ravaging higher education.Continue Reading
International Crisis to opportunity: Rehumanising internationalisation | Humanising involves taking on the perspective of the ‘other’, referring to the roughly 95% of the world’s population that is not ‘US-American’. The ‘other’ translates in our field as our current and future international higher education partners. Linking female students’ access to successContinue Reading
Did you know that the “father” of sports psychology was also the first notable director of an institutional research office responsible for student success initiatives at a US college or university? In 1938, Coleman R. Griffith provided a firsthand account for his efforts to develop the Bureau of Institutional ResearchContinue Reading
