Friday, 05 Jun 2015
Reception: Farewell for Jill Kramer
Jill Kramer, university academic advising coordinator in CELT, is leaving Iowa State University after 12 years of service.
Tuesday, 09 Jun 2015
Seminar: Understanding and Combating Resistance to Online Learning
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." When President Kennedy said that in 1963, he probably wasn't thinking about online education. After all, ASCII was a newly invented computer code and IBM hadn't even introduced the first word processor yet. But his words show that resistance to change is as constant as change itself, which might explain the persistence of resistance to...
Tuesday, 30 Jun 2015
Webinar: Diversity in the Student Body [Inside Higher Ed]
For the admissions officers, enrollment managers and presidents of American colleges and universities, few issues are as important or challenging as efforts to diversify the student body. Educators worry that many groups of students -- under-represented minority students, the disadvantaged, those whose parents didn't go to college, and more -- are not enrolling at rates proportional to their representation in the country's population.