Engaging students and parents can supercharge your student search. Student search has undergone rapid transformation in recent years. For decades it was a one-way conversation completely controlled by colleges and universities. Students inquired, campuses responded; students applied, campuses responded; and so on. That call-response interaction repeated itself throughout the funnel. With the arrival of digital...Read More

Writing to six Secretaries of State, including education minister Gillian Keegan, home secretary Suella Braverman and chancellor Jeremy Hunt, APPG co-chairs Lord Karan Bilimoria and Paul Blomfield highlighted further cross-departmental engagement and immigration reform that could help. Leaders should create “a more ambitious and sustainable target” for international student numbers in the UK, they urged. The Home Office must be included...Read More

Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).Danelle Stevens-Watkins, acting dean of the UK College of Education The five-year grant will fund a mentorship-based program, the...Read More

Like many people, I begin spring cleaning in January because looking at an organized closet or tidy pantry makes me feel refreshed and accomplished. Similarly, the start of a new semester is an ideal time for you to declutter your physical and digital spaces. You may not be able to reduce your class size or...Read More

We’ve just launched our first 2023 Advancement Leaders Speak Survey. Prompted by RNL’s fundraising advisory board and discussions we’ve had with RNL partners, we launched the survey early this year to answer some key questions we’re being asked: Are you up or down on donors, dollars, compared to last January, as you begin to complete...Read More

“What I am trying to work very much towards in the last couple of years is that it’s language teaching and training – it’s not just English language teaching,” McLaughlin points out. “Our working language is English, but the majority do teach English with other languages as well,” she continues. That’s why Eaquals’s raft of...Read More

Conservatives often pay lip service to diversity. Many like those in Indiana don’t really think racism is an issue. Not in the heartland. But nothing can be farther from the truth. Take a good look at 56-year-old Billie R. Davis from Indiana. She’d probably look at you a little differently if you’re Asian American Filipino....Read More

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning.  Two decades of detailed slide presentations have resulted in students who multitask during class. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. al. 2017). One of...Read More

Last year, we sent you a ton of content about the rapidly changing world of donor engagement. As we move into a new year, we thought it would be good to look back and share some great insights you might have missed. Here are our top blogs in three key areas. I encourage you to...Read More

Katherine Chassie, Knowledge Analyst, WES; Justyna Peck, Policy Analyst, WES; Chris Mackie, Editor, WENR Although the U.S. is one of the most popular destinations for Malaysian international students, enrollment has declined steeply since the 2017/18 academic year. Malaysia is a multicultural, multilingual, multi-ethnic society. The country is composed of three major ethnic groups. Indigenous Malaysians,...Read More