Two Lipman Hearne clients made the news as members of Mother Jones magazine’s 2010 MoJo Mini College Guide. According to Kiera Butler, the University of Minnesota, Morris and Kettering University are both among “ten cool schools that will blow your mind, not your budget.” The University of Minnesota, Morris is cited for having “academic chops [...]
A New York Times Op-Ed piece by David Brooks cites Lumina Foundation efforts to track student outcomes as being a key element in education reform. Brooks also cites increases in community college attendance as being a step in the right direction when it comes to restoring our “human capital advantage.” Lumina Foundation for Education is [...]
Late last week Masha Alexander and I were at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. Among other cool stuff, I had the chance to hold a hefty Aplysia californica – a.k.a. a common sea slug. Aplysia are bred in quantity at Rosenstiel because their neurons are large and [...]
According to a new report from Lumina Foundation for Education, “A Stronger Nation through Education,” returning to a position of global leadership will require the US to increase the proportion of Americans who hold high quality two- and four-year degrees. A recent Houston Chronicle article includes further commentary from Jamie Merisotis, president of the foundation, [...]
University of Detroit Mercy, a longtime Lipman Hearne client, has launched a new online experience aimed at engaging rising high school juniors. Driven to the special site through emails and postcards, these juniors (soon to be seniors) can explore UDM’s teaching, and residential and student life by clicking on photographic hot spots. Fun and sometimes [...]
Lipman Hearne client American Enterprise Institute (AEI) made headlines today with the release of its report Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t). The report exposes the dramatic variation in completion rates across nearly 1,400 colleges and universities and found that less than 55 percent of first-time students at the [...]
Congratulations are in order for the University of Miami School of Law, which jumped 11 spots on U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the nation’s best law schools. As reported in the Daily Business Review, the rise reflects internal changes that led to a better student-faculty ratio, improved job placement rates and better peer rankings from law [...]
An accelerated integrated marketing(AIM) and enrollment services client, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) made headlines today as one of the beneficiaries of a mystery that is unfolding in the world of college fundraising: During the past few weeks, at least nine universities have received gifts totaling more than $45 million, and the [...]
A long-time client for admissions, research, and consulting services, Kettering University appears in the New York Times today, with the spotlight on “the West Point of the auto industry’s” prescient efforts to expand its industry ties beyond Detroit. Although programs in this top-notch, hands-on university have been traditionally for students pursuing industrial and automotive engineering [...]
In a crushing economy, people frequently turn to grad school. Out-of-work adults do it to retool their skills. Recent grads with newly-minted bachelor’s degrees do it to delay the agony of searching for a job in a tight market. What are their chances of acceptance at the top schools? According to the associate dean for [...]