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Higher Education Should be Wary of Promising Prosperity
When the overseers of 75 percent of all public undergraduate education in the US decide to do something, transformative change happens – at scale. This opportunity is now before us, thanks to the determined leadership of the National Association of System Heads (NASH), a group whose few dozen members are a small enough group to…
Read MoreThe NASH Improvement Model
The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector. Going back decades, many states, systems and institutions have enacted sweeping policy changes and invested significant resources in supporting transfer student success. Yet student outcomes have shown little improvement and appear to have even regressed during the pandemic. The question…
Read MoreOur Home Is Your Home
Why can colleges and universities no longer ignore their responsibility to refugees? Globally right now, a record one hundred million people have been forcibly displaced, the most recent surge stemming from the war in Ukraine. The conflict has pushed more than twelve million Ukrainians from their homes since March 2022, both inside and outside Ukrainian…
Read MoreIs College Worth It? Try Asking The Public How To Judge That
It seems that one striking contrast between the plans being developed by NASH and those previous efforts designed to extol the worth of a college degree is this newfound emphasis on reaching out directly to the public. “What is different here is the collective response were are organizing through our membership to tell this story,”…
Read MoreNew Campaign Wants to Prove ‘College Is Worth It’
The National Association of System Heads begins an initiative to bolster the public’s view of higher education by demonstrating—and where necessary improving—how the institutions drive social mobility and individual “prosperity.” NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—A coalition of dozens of public university systems across the country is launching a campaign aimed at improving public perception of the value…
Read MoreNew CPE, NASH partnership to help support colleges and universities serving displaced students
State and national education organizations are coming together to launch a community of practice to support Kentucky colleges and universities that serve students who have been displaced by crises in their home countries. The Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) is partnering with the National Association of System Heads (NASH) to provide a forum to share…
Read MoreBlack students in America need wholesale higher education reforms
From admissions to outreach and student data collection, the undergraduate journey must be reviewed to narrow unacceptable social and educational inequalities, say Kim Hunter Reed and Ray Belton
Read MoreIntersystem Transfer: Supporting Our Students in Wisconsin | Inside Higher Ed
The University of Wisconsin System places a high priority on improving baccalaureate completion rates, closing the opportunity gap for minoritized students and minimizing the financial and other barriers to degree attainment for all students regardless of where they begin their college career. In a collaborative attempt to remove transfer barriers for Wisconsin students, the UW…
Read MoreThe Emerging Role of Public Higher Education Systems in Advancing Transfer Student Success
A useful and overlooked tool for scaling transfer student success and creating more seamless transfer experiences across multiple institutions. The struggles and poor outcomes of transfer students have been well-established in this blog, as well as the broader literature, and need not be restated here. “Fixes” often focus on helping a prototypical student transfer vertically…
Read MoreDemanding Times for System Heads
If there’s a new “hot seat” in higher-education administration, it might burn hottest at the top. The job of public-college system head has seen a string of abrupt departures, board battles, and contentious searches. Last month, for example, Melody Rose resigned as chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education after less than two years on the…
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