On a westbound American Airlines flight this week, I was surprised to see Waiting for “Superman,” the tough-minded documentary about the failure of our public schools, on the drop-down screens. For those of you who fly a lot, you’ll know that you are far more likely to be forced to sit through Grown Ups or [...]
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund wants every Hispanic household to have at least one adult with a college degree by 2025. Find out how meeting this goal could result in an estimated $13 billion in additional public revenues (among other nation-strengthening benefits) in this article by Frank Alvarez and James McNamara. _______________________________________________ The Hispanic Scholarship Fund [...]
Lipman Hearne’s CEO, Rob Moore, recently penned an article for CASE Currents on educational branding truths: Having a muddy, chaotic brand is like trying to simultaneously cram through the doorway of a party with five other guests. The host opens the door to a dismaying display of mass confusion—six people grunting, swearing, shoving, and throwing [...]
Today marks a significant milestone for our client, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. After months of behind-the-scenes planning with our public affairs team, HSF announced its new “Generation 1st Degree,” program at its first Education Summit, held in New York City. This program aims to ensure that at least one person in every Hispanic household earns [...]
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of higher education knows that “college completion rates” and “data-driven solutions” have become more important than ever before in public debates and media coverage. National and state-level policymakers, along with college presidents, are paying closer attention to these issues – or at the very least, they are pledging to [...]
Céad míle fáilte: While the Irish greeting for “100,000 Welcomes” hasn’t translated exactly to that number of new client relationships in 2010, we have had quite the busy first two quarters at Lipman Hearne establishing new partnerships. We are proud of, and excited by, the collaborations that are underway and would like to take a [...]
Another day, another important article – this one in U.S. News and World Report – on how business schools are “re-evaluating the importance of business ethics and different methods of teaching ethics.” This topic has had a lot of coverage for several years, starting even before Enron and other high-profile ethical messes. The global financial [...]
Did the MBAs do it? The debate rages whether business schools and their graduates are responsible for the global financial crisis. Dutifully, many schools are “introspecting” on the subject. Why Character is Destiny for Business Schools – and the MBAs They Groom, in the new issue of the Baylor Business Review takes a look at [...]
Despite being a country where Internet connections are often unreliable, India can usually be seen as an early adopter of new web and social media applications. India’s citizens have so wholly embraced Facebook that they love it almost as much as they love film. Facebook recently announced that it will open its first Asian office [...]
New legislation being considered by the U.S. Department of Education is squarely aimed at for-profit colleges, with the intent of linking a student’s debt with their post-graduate earnings. Their concern is that students—lured by advertising—are investing in credentials or degrees that don’t actually deliver the earning power that the student expects, generating flotillas of “underwater” [...]