Peter Smith considers three ideas related to the new paradigm of personalized learning paths. Dr. Smith is President of the Open College at Kaplan University. 

Editor Kevin Kuzma interviews Dennis Trinkle, Provost & Chief Academic Officer of Harrison College, as part of the 2014 APSCU Conference Rewind video interview series filmed live at the APSCU conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Publisher Ryan Busch interviews Steve Gunderson, President & CEO of APSCU, as part of the 2014 APSCU Conference Rewind video interview series filmed live at the APSCU conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Editor Kevin Kuzma interviews Jay Hollowell, VP of Client Services of MaxKnowledge, as part of the 2014 APSCU Conference Rewind video interview series filmed live at the APSCU conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Jay discusses 4 trends in training observed in the career college sector of Higher Education.  

Editor Kevin Kuzma interviews Denny Spisak, board member of the Imagine America Foundation in this first of several 2014 APSCU Conference Rewind video interviews filmed live at the APSCU conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Editor Kevin Kuzma interviews Russell Freeman, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Imagine America Foundation, as part of the 2014 APSCU Conference Rewind video interview series filmed live at the APSCU conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Relationships with friends and professors make or break a student’s college experience. That deceptively simple observation has big implications for making higher education better. In How College Works, Daniel F. Chambliss, a professor of sociology at Hamilton College, and Christopher G. Takacs, a former student at Hamilton and now a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, use evidence from a longitudinal study of Hamilton students to explore how the college experience unfolds, and what students and especially colleges might do differently.

The Chronicle of Higher Education sat down with Mr. Chambliss earlier this year to learn more about the… >>>

Rey Junco, Associate Professor of Education at Iowa State University, discusses the benefits of using social media in the classroom. In his new book, "Engaging Students Through Social Media," Junco encourages educators to use social media to engage and connect with students.

American higher education is being swept by two potentially irresistible waves of change. The first is intense scrutiny of academia's costs and benefits, driven by soaring prices, student debt, and the ensuing public anger. The second is the emergence of postsecondary models that threaten to replace traditional colleges and universities on a major scale. In this special forum, we'll look at the threats to accreditors — and through them, schools — stemming from federal reactions to public unhappiness, and at ways to foster quality in the many postsecondary options coming our way.

Dr. Brian Van Brunt shares his "best kept retention secret."  Dr.  Van Brunt says connection is the key to student retention.  

Jamie P. Merisotis, President and CEO, Lumina Foundation, shares some of the details from the recent report, Stronger Nation Through Higher Education. 

In their fifth year doing the report, the Lumina Foundation has seen that strongest increase in adults with higher education degrees. Although with that number at only 39%, there is a lot of work to do.

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Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates - Columbia University Is the college of the future online? With the popularity of MOOCs (massive open online courses) and the availability of online degree programs at a fraction of their on-campus price, we are experiencing an exciting experiment in higher education. Does the traditional classroom stand a chance? Will online education be the great equalizer, or is a campus-based college experience still necessary?
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Janelle Applequist, a Ph.D. Candidate of The Pennsylvania State University's College of Communications shares how she uses her personal experience to inform her research and instruction. By describing her personal history with the field of health care, she talks about the ways in which academia can privilege individual voices and stories, but from an even larger scale, how sharing your story can be an applicable skill for any field, experience, or personal relationship. Could opening up and sharing a bit of your personal story with students make them feel more connected?  What are the implications for engagement, retention, learning outcomes?… >>>

Steve Gunderson, president of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, discusses President Barack Obama's revised for-profit college rules that go into effect June 2015. He speaks with Trish Regan and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg) 

Colleges, under increased pressure to justify the cost of education, are having a hard time getting proof of graduates' success in finding well-paying jobs. Melissa Korn reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Erica Gannett for The Wall Street Journal.

Editor Kevin Kuzma leads the third in a four-part series of interviews with Alex Tabarrok, associate professor of economics at George Mason University. 

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announces new rules requiring career colleges to do a better job of preparing students for gainful employment, or risk losing access to taxpayer-funded federal student aid.

Employee benefits are the number one driver of college costs, according to Jane Wellman, especially for public institutions, which often don't control benefit packages themselves. Where institutions are saving money is in faculty salaries, with the growing practice of using adjunct over tenured faculty.

Editor Kevin Kuzma continues his conversation with Alex Tabarrok, associate professor of economics at George Mason University. Alex talks with Kevin about whether or not American parents need to rethink what careers they tell their children to pursue.