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Beware of Fake Accrediting or Accreditation Agencies
Description: NONE of these accrediting agencies are recognized as college accreditors in the U.S. by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation or the U.S. Department of Education. As such, colleges claiming “accreditation” by these agencies are not widely accepted as valid providers of higher education online and should be approached with great caution if online college credibility is important to you. (Provided by www.geteducated.com)

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With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them [PDF]
Description: According to the U.S. Department of Education, only 20 percent of young people who begin their higher education at two-year institutions graduate within three years. There is a similar pattern in four-year institutions, where about 4 in 10 students receive a degree within six years. These bleak statistics on national college completion rates are averages. In some institutions, the numbers are even gloomier.
Survive and Thrive During Fall Start Season
Description: Some tips to help enrollment leaders survive and thrive over the next few weeks.
Seven Circumstances that are Shaping the Private Higher Education Marketplace
Description: The Lawlor Group offers an insightful synthesis of marketplace conditions that they predict will have significant impact on student recruitment and enrollment efforts during the coming year.
Overcoming Objections: A Formula for Success
Description: If you are working in Admissions at an academic institution chances are you don’t really think of yourself as a salesperson. Therefore, it is unlikely that you will focus on the finer points of how to overcome objections. Well, here is some news for you Admissions people: if there is an exchange of money or value that is occurring in the course of your job then a transaction has taken place. That makes you a salesperson.
Moody's Predicts Slowdown for Colleges
Description: This year will be a relatively stable one for colleges and universities, says Moody's Investors Service, the bond-rating agency, but storm clouds are gathering for colleges with large amounts of debt, in highly competitive battles for students, or in areas of declining population.

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Faculty Recruitment and Training:

Teaching Tech to the Adjuncts, and Admitting Some IT Mistakes
Description: Professors, to make a broad generalization, are not the keenest adapters of new technology. This article tells how Immaculata University got 366 faculty members--the institution has about 400 total--trained in an online course management system in just a few months.

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Instructional Design and Course Development:

When They Don't Discuss As We Wish
Description: Do you ever come across instructors who ask: "How can I get my students to participate more, as well as more effectively, in my threaded discussions?" Sometimes just puzzled and other times utterly disappointed, many of these instructors describe how they invite their students to participate in discussions, but get little or no response. Here are some tips to address this issue.

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Online Education:

The Horizon Report 2010 Edition [PDF]
Description: The Horizon Report identifies four trends as "key drivers" of learning technology from now until 2015.
E-Learning and Its Challenges Increase at Community Colleges
Description: As the number of online-learning students increases at the nation's community colleges, so do the challenges of providing them with good online instruction and providing faculty members with the tools to deliver it. That's the message in the results of a new survey of community colleges.
How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis
Description: Traditional textbook publishers have held an iron lock on the industry’s model for too long, and universities have been tacitly complicit of the system. In the Web era, however, this oligopolistic business practice is imploding. Indeed, the whole learning process is changing thanks to the Internet.
2009 Horizon Report
Description: Trends in higher education technology over the next 1-5 years.
With Budget Crunch Hitting IT, Time to Rethink Role?
Description: Colleges' information technology budgets aren't immune to the economic downturn. Some CIOs see opportunity to streamline priorities and recast their mission.

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The Year Ahead in IT [PDF]
Description: What a difference a year makes. Most CIOs in higher education are turning their 2009 holiday stockings inside out looking for any extra crumbs that Kris Kringle might have left behind. The general fiscal crunch facing higher education has led most technology leaders to assert that double digit percentage cuts to IT budgets makes playing the holiday Scrooge a piece of cake compared to the negative consequences to core IT services and offerings facing the college campus in the year ahead.

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