eReadings for Strategic Planning
A resource list has been compiled to provide content related to trends in higher education in the coming years. You are invited to review this material and consider how these important trends provide opportunities for us at GSU. Many thanks to Jason Puckett, Online Learning Librarian, for compiling this list of resources. I invite anyone to share information with me for possible inclusion on this list: Nancy Kropf, [email protected]
College 2025
To be successful, institutions must maintain both cost affordability and academic quality while preparing graduates for the workforce and to be productive members of their communities – the College 2025 Initiative, which Chancellor Wrigley launched in May 2017, is creating a map to address those concerns and offer real solutions based on the nationally acclaimed research by Dr. Tristan Denley.
COACHE Report
The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) is a research-practice partnership based in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. COACHE studies the work lives of faculty with a focus on actionable data to support academic administrators.
Studies are conducted in partnership with college and university leaders (both faculty and administrative) with an emphasis on using the data collected to improve the academic workplace.
Impact Report - Clarkston Summit 2022
The Clarkston Summit was held on May 14, 2022, on the campus of Perimeter College, Georgia State University. The mission of the 2022 Summit organizing committee was to create a day of listening to the needs, desires, and dreams of the community. Creating an event to ethically, efficiently, and practically provide a platform for so many diverse community members is perpetually challenging. Whether engaging in research, service, or partnership with our community members, our guiding principle is “community first.”
Understanding Trends in Higher Education
Much change is taking place in higher education that will shape universities in the coming years. The sections below provide links to content on major demographic shifts, technological advances, and contexts for urban service universities. These resources provide critical content to help inform our strategic planning.
- Hanover Research: 2022 Trends in Higher Education
In such a climate, demonstrating value is increasingly crucial. The movement of employees in the “great resignation” further draws questions about how institutions can find inclusive ways to cater to new populations of students and meet the evolving needs of the employers seeking to hire them. Meanwhile, to remain viable amid declining enrollments and increased sensitivity to cost, institutions are rethinking how they market and position themselves. - How to Survive the Enrollment Bust: Colleges face looming demographic challenges.
The pandemic offers clues for overcoming them. - Have We Gotten Student Success Completely Backward?
Between 2003 and 2014, in collaboration with the consulting firm EAB, Georgia State University led a revolution in student success. Through a series of pilot programs that grew into a sweeping campus-culture shift, Georgia State raised its six-year graduation rate to 54 percent from 32 percent while simultaneously nearly doubling its percentage of Pell-eligible students. - A ‘Stunning’ Level of Student Disconnection.
Professors report record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and unsure of their future. - Visualizing queer spaces: LGBTQ students and the traditionally heterogendered institution.
This study explored how LGBTQ college students experienced campus climate at a Midwest Urban Public (MUP) institution through a framework of the traditionally heterogendered institution. - Race on Campus: Enrolling More Men of Color.
Last spring, men made up just over 40 percent of the nation’s undergraduate students — an all-time low. The enrollment declines were especially pronounced among Black and Latino men at community colleges. - Addressing Inequities in Higher Education. Policy Guide.
This guide focuses specifically on racial and ethnic student populations — Black, Latinx and American Indian — that continue to experience exclusion from American higher education. - Learning Communities: Opportunities for the Retention of Faculty of Color.
Through their shared lens as tenure-track faculty of color at an urban community college, the authors identify common barriers for retention of faculty of color, and types of learning community models. - Patterns of Community College Use among Working Adults. Research Brief.
As American workers continue to face the proliferation of new technologies and worsening earning inequality, as well as dislocation driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasingly urgent need to assist people in transitioning to new, and hopefully better, jobs. Community colleges are central to this issue both because of their scope and the positive returns to those who obtain degrees or certificates from these institutions. - Georgia State Diversity Strategic Plan 2011-2016
The overarching goal of the DSP is to build and sustain the representativeness, inclusiveness and engagement of our diverse constituent groups (student body, faculty, and staff) and to support the inclusiveness and engagement of students, faculty and staff with disabilities.
- Podcast: ASU President Michael Crow Shares Strategies for Driving Institutional Change
EAB’s Sally Amoruso hosts a wide-ranging discussion with influential Arizona State University President, Michael Crow. The two discuss the role of technology in helping institutions serve more students and the value of challenging the kind of antiquated thinking that pervades higher education. - Instructor Presence and Student Satisfaction Across Modalities: Survey Data on Student Preferences in Online and On-Campus Courses.
Students need online and on-campus courses that are well designed and facilitated, but even well-designed classes can be ineffective if students feel lost in the course or disengaged from the instructor. - 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition.
This report summarizes discussions and nominations on trends, technologies, and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning and serves as one vantage point on where our post-pandemic future may be headed. - Pandemic-To-Permanent: 11 Lasting Changes to Higher Education.
Some say higher education will largely return to pre-pandemic normal in the coming academic year or two. Others predict mass extinction of colleges and universities. Both are extreme ends (and highly unlikely scenarios) of the spectrum of what might happen to higher education. Somewhere in between those extremes, though, are eleven clear and lasting changes to higher education as a result of the pandemic. - IDEAS for Transforming Higher Education: An Overview of Ongoing Trends and Challenges.
The recent unexpected impact of the global pandemic on higher education has caused universities, governments, students, and teachers to reexamine all components of existing systems, including how to become more effective and efficient in using technologies for education. We have seen that moving classes online—either blended or fully online—can be done rapidly, but early reports show huge variations in quality, acceptance, completion, and learning. - People, Practices, and Patterns: Transforming into a Learning Institution.
Within this article, the authors will discuss the evolution of an academic-administrative unit at Michigan State University (MSU), and how this organization, the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology (the Hub) seeks to reinvent MSU as a learning institution.
- The Neighborhood University: Five scholars on what their universities owe their local communities.
Five scholars on urban campuses discuss what responsibility their universities have to the cities in which they reside. - The Role of Public Urban Research Universities in Making Education Work for All.
Recent data from the Federal Reserve substantiates ongoing reports that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing structural inequities, placing the underserved, vulnerable, and those without college degrees at even greater risk. In a time of changing demographics and increasing income inequality, we need to rethink how to create affordable access to a great education. - Defining University Anchor Institution Strategies: Comparing Theory to Practice.
The study finds that universities prioritize place-based initiatives, while contemporary frameworks are more normative and highlight socio-economic practices. Based on reported strategies, the author proposes an alternate typology that accounts for the ways universities most commonly describe anchor approaches, complementing contemporary theory. - Higher Education’s Role in the Support of Diverse and Ever-Changing New American Cities: Exploring Buffalo.
Urban institutions are typically located in diverse and vibrant cities. This diversity has changed over the decades, thus requiring campuses to address the complexity seen as these new American cities evolve. In this article, the city of Buffalo is discussed as a city that manifests a continuous change in population diversity with a significant increase in the immigrant and refugee populations. - Student Success for All: Support for Low-Income Students at an Urban Public University.
Low-income students share patterns and traits that put them at greater risk of dropping out of college. The Lumina Foundation published the report Beyond Financial Aid, which identifies six strategies for supporting low-income students, offers examples of how those strategies may be implemented, and provides an institutional self-assessment tool.
- IMPACTFUL DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
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- Hanover Research: 2022 Trends in Higher Education
In such a climate, demonstrating value is increasingly crucial. The movement of employees in the “great resignation” further draws questions about how institutions can find inclusive ways to cater to new populations of students and meet the evolving needs of the employers seeking to hire them. Meanwhile, to remain viable amid declining enrollments and increased sensitivity to cost, institutions are rethinking how they market and position themselves. - How to Survive the Enrollment Bust: Colleges face looming demographic challenges.
The pandemic offers clues for overcoming them. - Have We Gotten Student Success Completely Backward?
Between 2003 and 2014, in collaboration with the consulting firm EAB, Georgia State University led a revolution in student success. Through a series of pilot programs that grew into a sweeping campus-culture shift, Georgia State raised its six-year graduation rate to 54 percent from 32 percent while simultaneously nearly doubling its percentage of Pell-eligible students. - A ‘Stunning’ Level of Student Disconnection.
Professors report record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and unsure of their future. - Visualizing queer spaces: LGBTQ students and the traditionally heterogendered institution.
This study explored how LGBTQ college students experienced campus climate at a Midwest Urban Public (MUP) institution through a framework of the traditionally heterogendered institution. - Race on Campus: Enrolling More Men of Color.
Last spring, men made up just over 40 percent of the nation’s undergraduate students — an all-time low. The enrollment declines were especially pronounced among Black and Latino men at community colleges. - Addressing Inequities in Higher Education. Policy Guide.
This guide focuses specifically on racial and ethnic student populations — Black, Latinx and American Indian — that continue to experience exclusion from American higher education. - Learning Communities: Opportunities for the Retention of Faculty of Color.
Through their shared lens as tenure-track faculty of color at an urban community college, the authors identify common barriers for retention of faculty of color, and types of learning community models. - Patterns of Community College Use among Working Adults. Research Brief.
As American workers continue to face the proliferation of new technologies and worsening earning inequality, as well as dislocation driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasingly urgent need to assist people in transitioning to new, and hopefully better, jobs. Community colleges are central to this issue both because of their scope and the positive returns to those who obtain degrees or certificates from these institutions. - Georgia State Diversity Strategic Plan 2011-2016
The overarching goal of the DSP is to build and sustain the representativeness, inclusiveness and engagement of our diverse constituent groups (student body, faculty, and staff) and to support the inclusiveness and engagement of students, faculty and staff with disabilities.
- Hanover Research: 2022 Trends in Higher Education
- TECHNOLOGY & LEARNING TRENDS
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- Podcast: ASU President Michael Crow Shares Strategies for Driving Institutional Change
EAB’s Sally Amoruso hosts a wide-ranging discussion with influential Arizona State University President, Michael Crow. The two discuss the role of technology in helping institutions serve more students and the value of challenging the kind of antiquated thinking that pervades higher education. - Instructor Presence and Student Satisfaction Across Modalities: Survey Data on Student Preferences in Online and On-Campus Courses.
Students need online and on-campus courses that are well designed and facilitated, but even well-designed classes can be ineffective if students feel lost in the course or disengaged from the instructor. - 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition.
This report summarizes discussions and nominations on trends, technologies, and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning and serves as one vantage point on where our post-pandemic future may be headed. - Pandemic-To-Permanent: 11 Lasting Changes to Higher Education.
Some say higher education will largely return to pre-pandemic normal in the coming academic year or two. Others predict mass extinction of colleges and universities. Both are extreme ends (and highly unlikely scenarios) of the spectrum of what might happen to higher education. Somewhere in between those extremes, though, are eleven clear and lasting changes to higher education as a result of the pandemic. - IDEAS for Transforming Higher Education: An Overview of Ongoing Trends and Challenges.
The recent unexpected impact of the global pandemic on higher education has caused universities, governments, students, and teachers to reexamine all components of existing systems, including how to become more effective and efficient in using technologies for education. We have seen that moving classes online—either blended or fully online—can be done rapidly, but early reports show huge variations in quality, acceptance, completion, and learning. - People, Practices, and Patterns: Transforming into a Learning Institution.
Within this article, the authors will discuss the evolution of an academic-administrative unit at Michigan State University (MSU), and how this organization, the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology (the Hub) seeks to reinvent MSU as a learning institution.
- Podcast: ASU President Michael Crow Shares Strategies for Driving Institutional Change
- THE PLACE OF THE URBAN SERVING UNIVERSITY
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- The Neighborhood University: Five scholars on what their universities owe their local communities.
Five scholars on urban campuses discuss what responsibility their universities have to the cities in which they reside. - The Role of Public Urban Research Universities in Making Education Work for All.
Recent data from the Federal Reserve substantiates ongoing reports that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing structural inequities, placing the underserved, vulnerable, and those without college degrees at even greater risk. In a time of changing demographics and increasing income inequality, we need to rethink how to create affordable access to a great education. - Defining University Anchor Institution Strategies: Comparing Theory to Practice.
The study finds that universities prioritize place-based initiatives, while contemporary frameworks are more normative and highlight socio-economic practices. Based on reported strategies, the author proposes an alternate typology that accounts for the ways universities most commonly describe anchor approaches, complementing contemporary theory. - Higher Education’s Role in the Support of Diverse and Ever-Changing New American Cities: Exploring Buffalo.
Urban institutions are typically located in diverse and vibrant cities. This diversity has changed over the decades, thus requiring campuses to address the complexity seen as these new American cities evolve. In this article, the city of Buffalo is discussed as a city that manifests a continuous change in population diversity with a significant increase in the immigrant and refugee populations. - Student Success for All: Support for Low-Income Students at an Urban Public University.
Low-income students share patterns and traits that put them at greater risk of dropping out of college. The Lumina Foundation published the report Beyond Financial Aid, which identifies six strategies for supporting low-income students, offers examples of how those strategies may be implemented, and provides an institutional self-assessment tool.
- The Neighborhood University: Five scholars on what their universities owe their local communities.