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Let’s Get Engaged
Campuses devote a great deal of their fundraising focus on a group that simply isn’t paying off. How can participation among them be increased?

Today's Campus Update

Features ... A rookie college ranking debuts. Will it challenge U.S. News? Must big fundraising efforts result in little payoff? Can college be more affordable? What's happened to online higher education? Also ... Most popular articles and interviews.

Summer games: the college rankings

New + Notable by Tom Robinson

U. S . New & World Report's Americas Best Colleges steps up to the plate this month. It's been the league leader on college rankings. But is it still a slugger? The American Council of Trustees and Alumni says: "Yerrrrr out."

Eleven Steps to Student Information System $uccess

Purchasing a new student information system (SIS)? What are the right questions to ask? Try these.

Jem Spectar, President, U of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
How does a world-class university serve a mid-size community in a down economy?

Today's Campus Update. July 2010

Overheard at NASFAA, Part 2

In a campus office that's always dealing with remarkable complexity, there's an apparent desire - and even some movement - toward simplification. Here are more choice morsels from this year's annual conference of financial aid administrators.

Transformational leadership

Thinking about tomorrow's top executives? A panel of similarly minded executives say leadership requires IQ, EQ and CQ.

Overheard at NASFAA, Part 1

In a campus office that's always dealing with remarkable complexity, there's an apparent desire - and even some movement - toward simplification. Here are some choice morsels from this year's annual conference of financial aid administrators.

No Matter the Crisis, a Communications Plan Is Critical
Recent news reports from a pair of campuses amplify the need for a plan. At the University of Virginia, a male lacrosse player with an apparent history of violence allegedly beat to death his former girlfriend, a member of the woman's lacrosse team. At the University of Alabama-Huntsville, a female professor who just had been denied tenure shot and killed three colleagues and wounded three others. By Anne Sceia Klein

So Sue Me - Internship or slave labor?
Uncle Sam’s Increased Attention to Student Workers Generates Concerns and Suits. Part 2. By Jim Castagnera.

So Sue Me - Internship or slave labor?
Uncle Sam’s Increased Attention to Student Workers Generates Concerns and Suits. Will unpaid internships have much more of a future. Part 1. By Jim Castagnera.

Neutralizing the Saboteurs of Strategic Change
"I guarantee you that no matter how wonderful your strategy is, you will not execute it the way you planned," says Robin Speculand, a specialist in strategy implementation who has helped governments, multi-national companies and local corporations.

The Change Enforcers
Given the many pressures from several directions—reform, cost reduction, compliance and accountability—it takes someone with vision, dexterity and fortitude to run a campus well these days.   Part 2.

The Change Enforcers
Given the many pressures from several directions—reform, cost reduction, compliance and accountability—it takes someone with vision, dexterity and fortitude to run a campus well these days.   Part 1.

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