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Ashburn, Elyse – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
When the playful, 84-page viewbook showed up in the University of Dayton last fall, not everybody was impressed. Some faculty members were taken aback. The student newspaper, the "Flyer News," pronounced it a "fully color, glossy orgy," unbefitting a Roman Catholic college. The admissions office, it said, had hit an…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Student Recruitment, School Publications, Institutional Advancement
Ashburn, Elyse – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The service learning movement has gained new energy with the election of President Obama, who has made increasing service a central plank of his higher-education agenda. But across the board, colleges and universities struggle with service learning's twin goals of providing meaningful help to the community and academic rigor to students. The…
Descriptors: Service Learning, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs, Instructional Development
Ashburn, Elyse – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Fourteen years ago, Bruce A. Jackson was doing his postdoctoral work at the Boston University School of Medicine and working nights teaching at nearby Roxbury Community College. But his exhausting shuttle between two colleges was about to come to an end. Mr. Jackson, a biochemist, had recently received word from the National Science Foundation…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Science Education, College Science, Science Achievement
Ashburn, Elyse – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
As community colleges have matured, many presidents' jobs--especially at the largest colleges in the country--have grown to become those of college president, entrepreneur, lobbyist, global ambassador, county leader, and fund raiser rolled into one. Their compensation has grown as well. At the largest two-year colleges and college systems in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Educational Administration, Salaries