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Button, Charles E.; Ghezzi, Sara E.; Godfrey, Phoebe; Huminski, Suzanne E.; Minor, Jesse; Silka, Linda – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
In response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many institutions of higher learning locked down their campuses and altered their ways of teaching. This article discusses changes made to courses at five highly varied public universities in New England participating in the multiyear Campuses for Environmental Stewardship (CES) program. The…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Higher Education
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Amar, François G. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2021
The COVID pandemic has exacerbated structural, demographic, and financial challenges faced by American higher education institutions and their honors programs and colleges. Likewise, the Black Lives Matter movement has made plain the inequities in the higher education sector. The new "normal" post-COVID will challenge honors…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education
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O'Toole, Tara; Burke, Martin D.; Denny, Thomas – National Academies Press, 2020
Experience from the fall 2020 semester suggests that fast, frequent testing can help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in a large and diverse university community, but it must also be emphasized that testing is only one component of a coherent mitigation strategy. A comprehensive approach requires the application of epidemiology and science; rapid…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Higher Education
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Fletcher, Geoffrey H. – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
Scott McLeod says the great sin in the way professional development is provided in this country is one of omission. On his blog, McLeod, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University and the coordinator of the department's Educational Administration Program, writes, "Most of our…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Public Schools, Electronic Publishing, Educational Administration
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Smallen, David L. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2005
Benchmarking information technology services has become a vital activity for colleges and universities. The COSTS Project (http://www.costsproject.org/) is an ongoing quantitative effort to benchmark the costs of providing IT services in higher education; the project helps institutions understand their IT budgets and staffing relative to peer…
Descriptors: Costs, Liberal Arts, Information Technology, Higher Education
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
New England's economic competitiveness in a global economy and the role of the area's colleges and universities in contributing to that competitiveness are discussed, including a review of a similar analysis from the perspective of the state of Maine. The report examines information developed from a study having three research components: (1) the…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
Amoroso, Henry C., Jr.; And Others – 1993
How best to introduce computer mediated communication (CMC) technology to kindergarten through grade 12 educators was studied in Maine. Faculty from the University of Southern Maine (Portland) offered a 1-week institute in global computing as part of a 3-credit graduate education course. Participants had the entire semester to develop and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Anxiety, Computer Networks, Educational Technology