Student Success Holistic Advising: Is Student Support Too Decentralized to Best Help Students Succeed? 03/29/202504/29/2025 A shorter version of this article was published by University Business in April 2025. Two Parables Mr. Patel, a 62-year-old retired school principal, was experiencing chronic fatigue, joint pain, and…
Deep Thoughts Articles ~80 Ways Colleges Can Save Money without Sacrificing Quality 01/02/2025 When I taught graduate courses for Appalachian State University and Baylor University on the business and finance of higher education, one of the course sections that was essential to cover…
Deep Thoughts Articles A Straight Talk Survival Guide for Colleges, Peter Facione 01/02/2025 Sometimes I read an article that is just so good, I simply want to recreate it in a location where I can always easily find it to share. The following…
Deep Thoughts Articles 10 Main Outcome Measures of Universities 01/01/202501/02/2025 These are the 10 main areas where universities are accountable to themselves and others outside the university for their performance. Any board of regents/trustees and university leaders would be wise…
Deep Thoughts Articles Colleges Most Likely to Close – Based on 2024 Forbes’ Financial Health Failing Grades 12/29/202401/08/2025 Having taught a class on Institutional Instability in 2019 and been a student of higher education for more than 30 years, I have a fascination with how and when colleges…
The Most Interesting College of the Day! Top Performers on Social Mobility (US News) 12/27/202401/04/2025 These are the colleges, based on U.S. News' rankings of colleges, most likely to help lower income students advance to higher socio-economic levels. "Economically disadvantaged students are less likely than…
Higher Ed History HEd History – Residential Colleges in the U.S. Are Less than 100 years Old! 12/26/202412/26/2024 Taken from A Collegiate Way of Living, by Mark B. Ryan Merton of Oxford Perhaps the earliest permanent residential college, still extant, was Merton of Oxford, founded in 1264 by…
Higher Ed Mascots College Mascots without an “S” at the End – FCS and DII 09/15/202411/22/2024 Go here for a list of the College Mascots without an “s” at the End- Division I FBS Go here for a list of the College Mascots without an “S”…
Deep Thoughts Articles 10 Themes for Why People Go To College 07/20/2024 I don't necessarily agree with all of these reasons, but an honest answer, based on 30 years working in colleges, leads me to share these 20 reasons. They are not…
Personal & Family Personal Essay for Admission to M.Ed. for Student Affairs in Higher Ed (1992) 07/07/202407/07/2024 College is more than just getting good grades. When I first came to the University of Virginia I felt that my grade point average would be the best measure of…
Student Success The Penguin Promise – How to Ensure Students Get a Good Job After College 07/06/2024 I developed this program for a private college. It is based on my understanding of best practices in student success and in studying how 7 other colleges are approaching this…
Student Success “Find Your Way” College Student Coaching 03/19/202403/19/2024 The Path to Discovering Your Strengths and Clarifying Your Career The Challenge Students today spend years preparing to get into the right college. Once they do, a wave of relief…
Higher Ed History HEd History – Ranking Students by their Socio-Econonic Status 12/14/202301/06/2024 Did you know that in America's higher education history, colonial colleges listed students and had them dress in order of their socio-economic status. "Although the social composition of the collegiate…
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