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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

The University Innovation Alliance

Scaling Innovation in Higher Ed At the UIA, we’ve noticed that the biggest advocates for scaling any innovation work in the for-profit space with access to more resources. For nonprofits, the fear of running out of money can limit the innovation that ultimately happens.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Stress is a natural part of the human condition, and can be performance enhancing at low to moderate levels. This response has had adaptive value over the course of human evolution, when stressors often involved reacting to immediate threats to our survival. Stress, Mental Health and Learning. 2009; Kirmayer et al.,

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Choosing or Dumping Harvard?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like to tell rejected applicants, they weren’t rejected as a human beings; they were simply told “no.” One problem is that with the use of the so-called Common App to make college more accessible, the number of applications to Harvard has skyrocketed. In 2002, when the applicant pool was 19,605, the acceptance rate was 10.5

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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

The University Innovation Alliance

It's written around business, but it's actually a book on how are you an authentic human leader in any place. Dr. Sheares Ashby began her academic career at Iowa State University (ISU) as an assistant professor in 1996 and was promoted to associate professor in 2002, also mentoring ISU's Program for Women in Science & Engineering.

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The State of Black America is Improving, But Not Close to Parity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford, Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. Voter registration among Black people in 2022 was found to have decreased since 2002, another midterm election year. The practice has historically been employed to increase the presence of underrepresented minority students at U.S. colleges.