By Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute EPI spent a couple of days last week at SUNYCon, the State University of New York’s annual policy conference in New York City. This year’s SUNYCon, the short name of SUNY’s Annual “Critical Issues in Higher Education” Conference, focused on change management in higher education. Using a somewhat fresh approach, SUNY brought in experts from outside … Continue reading Ch…ch…ch…Changes!
By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute I like Mike Rowe. Rowe, the host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs and the new CNN program, Somebody’s Gotta Do It, is a complex guy. A former opera singer (really) and host for QVC (has great stories about Joan Rivers), Rowe has become an outspoken proponent for the blue collar jobs and workers in … Continue reading What Does Mike Rowe know about College?
By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute Next week EPI will converge on San Antonio for our Education Week, a series of three events including our Retention 101 Workshop, the Retention 2014 Student Success Symposium, and the EPI Forum on Education & the Economy. We look forward to great conversations about important issues in student success. I thought I would take the … Continue reading Education Week: New Conversations about College Access and Success
By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute I was thinking the other day about all the education-related events that I have attended in my career—literally hundreds and hundreds—and was thinking of what I have learned from these events. I have even put on over 50 events in the last decade, so I know a thing or two about them. More recently, I … Continue reading 10 Considerations at Your Next Education Conference
By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute I read an interesting piece in The Atlantic titled “The Future of College?” about the Minerva Project, a new higher education offering by multi-millionaire Ben Nelson. Minerva has just started with their introductory class: 33 students. It does not sound like much, but it is a start. I do not know much about Minerva and I cannot find … Continue reading The Future Isn’t Here Yet
The Swail Letter on Higher Education 