Thursday, April 5, 2018

Nota Bene: The Future of Higher Education

I enjoyed hosting a Faculty Roundtable recently at our beautiful new Frank Blocker Youth Center. It was an excellent opportunity for our faculty members to learn more about Tidewater Collegiate Academy and the value it brings to our campus, as well as a time for me to answer important questions about issues facing higher education in this region and beyond.

Each year, Inside Higher Ed conducts a survey that seeks to understand how college and university presidents view opportunities and challenges facing American higher education. The 2018 findings were recently released, and along with them, a wide array of articles analyzing the information. I found a blog by the Edvance Foundation, published March 18, to contain a helpful summary of the findings:
Edvance Foundation: What College Presidents Think of Future of Higher Education

The survey is also published in full on the Inside Higher Ed website. I hope you find this information helpful. We are doing extremely well at Virginia Wesleyan University; however, as I have cautioned before, we must continue to focus on best practices in enrollment, fundraising, and fiscal operation as we also plan for innovation and growth across all sectors of our University.