Content Type: Blogs
How to support Black male students
Dr. Roderick Heath, director of the African American Male Initiative at North Carolina Central University, shares advice on how all colleges can better support Black male students.
Here’s how to incorporate experiential learning into your online programs
Growing student interest in online programs, further accelerated by the pandemic, has challenged administrators to offer experiential learning opportunities online or at off-campus locations accessible to online students. Here are some of our researchers’ suggestions for creating the proper infrastructure to remotely deliver lab, clinical, or field work hours.
3 Realities Facing Liberal Arts Colleges in DEIJ Efforts
EAB hosted a virtual advisory session with chief diversity officers (CDOs) of selective liberal arts colleges to learn how these barriers impact their institutions. The leaders shared the challenges they run into in their work and how they are focusing their next steps to ensure systemic change on campus. The discussion revealed three realities of DEIJ efforts at liberal arts colleges.
Looking to Improve the Academic Quality of Your Law School’s Class? Here Are 3 Tips.
As we all well know, the law school market has been turbulent these last few years. While a multitude of factors led to a spike in law school applications in 2021, if 2022 is any indication, we don’t expect that increase in demand to sustain itself over time. Of course, what hasn’t changed is the pressure law school leaders face to increase or sustain the academic quality of the incoming class.
Demand for social workers is growing—here are 3 ways to optimize your program for growth
After helping dozens of EAB partner institutions improve their Master of Social Work (MSW) programs, we recommend these three ways to strengthen your MSW offering and best prepare students for the job market.
Why Colleges Use Data Analytics to Inform Financial Aid Strategy
Through a process known as “financial aid optimization” (or FAO), colleges work to provide a viable path to and through higher education for students from all backgrounds and economic circumstances while balancing that effort against the challenge of maintaining their own financial viability.
5 ways to support rural student success
Students in rural areas face distinct challenges in higher education. Learn about those challenges and 5 ways community colleges offer innovative services to support rural student success.
The Time is Right to Prioritize Administrative Efficiency
To help institutions quickly surface and size meaningful savings opportunities, EAB is launching the Financial Sustainability Collaborative for Administrative and Organizational Effectiveness. Our innovative collaborative model convenes a cohort of institutions to tackle the complex terrain of administrative efficiency and effectiveness together.
6 steps to build a predictive model: you may be farther along than you think
If you use data in any capacity at all, you’re already preparing to build a model. Learn the 6 steps to design a predictive model and see which steps you’ve already completed.
Celebrating 100 Episodes of EAB Office Hours Podcast
As we approach the 100th episode of the podcast (featuring a conversation with Inside Higher Ed Editor, Scott Jaschik, which will air on April 19) we wanted to share some of our favorite episodes with you. We hope you enjoy listening to them as much as enjoyed making them.
