As part of the reaffirmation process of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Wake Technical Community College launched a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) initiative based on best practices in eLearning. The goal of the eLearning Preparedness Initiative across the College (EPIC) is to remove learning barriers and better support online student learning, persistence, and success. A broad cross-functional and multidisciplinary team of faculty and

What if you were making efforts to look good on your campus but your efforts were working against you? It happens more often than you might think. There are three main reasons for this: (1) qualities in excess tend to create problems, (2) concerns about other people’s opinions can lead you in the wrong direction, and (3) adapting your behavior to influence people’s perception of you makes you look dishonest. Here are some common examples of how making efforts can be counterpr

Anyone involved with higher education can enumerate problems that will need solutions well before we get to “tomorrow’s world”. While it is probably safe to say that many of the future challenges will be similar to those we face today, the scope of current challenges may be far different from future emerging trends and needs. For example, it is a safe bet that financing higher education will probably continue to be a major challenge in the future. Similarly, emerging leader

Thriving, engaged colleges and universities have an advantage others don't -- they retain more students. And retention is a serious issue: Only slightly over half of U.S. college students graduate within six years, and nearly one in eight who start in any fall term will transfer by the following fall. From a student's perspective, dropping out of college can be a ruinous loss of investment and job potential. From a university administration's view, student attrition is financ

Dr. Bridges, a giant in the field of change management, shows us the distinction between “change” (what happens on the “outside” – be it a harrowing tsunami or a hostile take-over) and “transition” (what happens on the “inside” – our psychological and emotional reactions). As Dr. Bridges demonstrates, transitioning from the old to the new happens in three stages; the Ending, the Neutral Zone, and New Beginnings. As leaders charged with supporting our people through major tran