Education Week: New Conversations about College Access and Success
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
10 Considerations at Your Next Education Conference
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
The Future Isn’t Here Yet
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
Facing Global Challenges: A European University Perspective
By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute I was running through some aged writings online the other day and came across a presentation I made on March 20, 2009 at the invitation of the European University Association (EUA) in one of my fav cities, Prague. I remember the convention being one of the most organized, academic-conferences I had been to, and I was invited to … Continue reading Facing Global Challenges: A European University Perspective
Four Years Later: What Happens After College Graduation?
By Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute This morning I woke up to a New York Times article about an unemployed graduate of a for-profit institution. We’ve read many of these types of articles. Although they are mostly anecdotal, the sheer number of these articles, along with our unemployment data, assign more credibility to these writings. We know that … Continue reading Four Years Later: What Happens After College Graduation?
The Swail Letter on Higher Education 