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Academic Administration
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E-Learning Security: Problems and Solutions
A Strategic, Integrative, Goal-Driven Approach to Teaching Evaluation
Managing Online Programs: 5 Steps to Success
When Academic Deans Partner with Enrollment Managers
Understanding Copyright and Ownership: A Primer for Distance Education
Supporters and Critics: Both Are Essential to Change
The Process Approach to Blended Learning: Learning Beyond the Classroom
The Collegiality Assessment Matrix: Its Time Has Come
Running a MOOC: Secrets of the World’s Largest Distance Education Classes
Collegiality as a Criterion for Personnel Decisions
Tips for Converting to E-portfolios for Faculty Personnel Review
Understanding Prior Learning Assessment: A Key to the Adult Student Market
Preparing for and Managing Academic Scandals
3 (of 8) Keys to Marketing Your Online Program
Motivational Interviewing: A Communication Strategy for Addressing Faculty Performance Issues
Liberated from Distance Learning Myths
Failing Gracefully
Assessing Online Instructor Competency
Nibbled to Death by Ducks: Implications for the Department Chair
Uniting Blended Learning and Service Learning
The Community Role and Challenges of a College Leader
Should You Be Offering Accelerated Programs for Adults?
The Academic Leader as Guru
Keys to Successful Learning Assessment Systems
Changing a Department’s Culture
Mobile Education: The Pros, the Cons, and the Unanswered Questions
Valuing and Rewarding Academic Advising: Models for Chairs and Deans
Moving from Management to Leadership in Distance Ed
Effective Strategies for Hiring the Best New Faculty
Context: The Difference Between Success or Failure in Distance Learning Programs
Using Interest-Based Negotiation
Recruitment & Retention
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Seven Steps to Recruiting Out-of-State Students on a Budget
Improving College 101 Courses
Tips for Involving Faculty in Recruitment and Retention Efforts
Report Details Student Success Initiative’s Outcomes so Far
Using Focus Groups to Understand the LGBTQ Experience
Keeping High School Students Safe during Overnight Admission Visits
DACA: Implications for Admission of Undocumented Immigrants
Student Affairs Insurance
What You Need to Know to Recruit Adults Effectively
‘What a Change 10 Years Makes’: Lessons on Working with Millennials
Advice on Conducting Student Background Checks
Building a Low-Cost Out-of-State Enrollment Strategy
Enrolling Undocumented Immigrants:
What to Know Now
Counseling Services and Recruitment Efforts: What Do Families Want to Know?
Building Your Brand into Your Information Sessions
A Multidimensional Approach to Student Retention
Questions about Social Justice Work in Higher Education
The Importance of Being Earnest: NIU’s Move to Self-Reported Academic Records
The Registrar’s Role in Retention and Student Success
The Registrar’s Role in Retention and Student Success
‘Gen-1 House’ Aids Low-Income, First-Generation Students
No Selling Allowed: Reaching Prospective Adult Students on LinkedIn
Making the Most of Social Media
Four Reasons to Increase Your Online Education Marketing Budget
Finding the Right Balance between Traditional and Mobile-Friendly Web Resources
Evaluation Is Key in Making the Most of Campus Visits
Student Life
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Helping Undeclared Students Move toward Selecting Majors
Factors That Encourage Student Participation in Surveys
Why and How Student Affairs Should Prepare for Fisher
Study: International Students Have Few Close U.S. Friends
Best Practices for Mandated Assessment of At-Risk Students
Meeting Graduate Students’ Unique Non-Academic Needs
Student Affairs Insurance
Fostering Student Civic Engagement: An Interview
Student Affairs Assessment for Beginners
Using Case Management on Campus to Prevent Violence and Risk
New Restrictions on Responding to Students Who May Be Suicidal: Q & A
Reducing Student Homesickness: Q&A
Preparing to Serve Chronically Ill Students
Preventing and Responding to Social Media Misuse
Legal Changes Affect Involuntary Withdrawal of Suicidal Students
Helping At-Risk Students Build Resilience
Getting Geeks Involved on Campus
Learning More about College Men and Their Experiences
Creating Trans-Inclusive Policies and Procedures: The First Five Steps
Mandated Programming Instead of Mandated Therapy?
Behavioral Intervention Teams: Four Frequently Asked Questions
Supporting Students in Extremely Difficult Economic Times
Tip on Creating a Parents’ Council: Draw Up a Charter
Teaching & Learning
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Too Many Papers: Two Solutions
Reciprocal Feedback in the Online Classroom
Teaching Strategies That Help Students Learn
How Does Temperament Affect Online Learner Success and Retention?
Cell Phones in Class: A Student Survey
Frequent, Low-Stakes Grading: Assessment for Communication, Confidence
Motivation: Intrinsic, Extrinsic, or More
Ideas for Active Online Learning
Capstone Courses: Many Options
Using Student Facilitators in the Online Classroom
A New Way to Assess Student Learning
Authentic Assignments: What Are They?
Recommendations for Blended Learning Course Design
Dead Ideas in Teaching
Brain-Based Online Learning Design
An Assignment that Prevents Plagiarism
Practical Advice for Going from Face to Face to Online
Not Just for Introductory Courses
Simplifying Online Course Design
Teachable Moments - The Grading Conference
Building Learning Communities beyond the Online Classroom
Long-Term Benefits of Learner-Centered Instruction
Group Work, Discussion Strategies to Manage Online Instructor Workload
Metacognitive Pestering for Beginning Students
Understanding the Online Learning Experience
Five Habits—Easy but Often Neglected Practices That Improve Outcomes
Instructor Characteristics That Affect Online Student Success
A Course Redesign that Contributed to Student Success
Online Learning and Service-Learning: How They Can Work Together
Daily Experts: A Technique to Encourage Student Participation
Effective Online Grading
Blended Learning