Tighter the job market, tougher the competition amongst students. Ultimately, students who possess niche skills are hired by the top employers. To prepare for the competition outside, students are looking out to learn skills that the big players demand. Irrespective of the profession students select, they have to upgrade their skills on a regular basis.…
Holding the position of a provost, a chief academic officer, in a university has never been easy. The exhaustive responsibilities that a provost needs to handle, and handle well, may slightly differ from one institution to another but remain challenging nevertheless. The main responsibility of a provost is to make sound decisions regarding academics and…
While the current job market in the US may look quite rosy, it actually isn’t an ‘all flowers and no thorns’ garden, mind you. Here’s why we say so: 63% of workers in the US are moderately happy in their workplace, while 24% of workers totally hate their jobs. More than 50% of fresh grads…
The real asset of any organization – its employees – play a significant role in making or breaking it. Turning a great business idea into an equally good reality requires passionate and dedicated employees working collaboratively as a team. One bad hire can tremendously impact the overall organizational productivity, growth, and efficiency adversely. As a…
Considering the extensive overlap in the responsibilities, and areas of involvement, of deans and provosts, one can be excused for confusing the two roles. However, although it’s true that provosts and deans are involved in common initiatives associated with student affairs, such as university retention strategies, financial management, budgeting, and student success planning, the degree…
The provost, while having minimal immediate involvement in student affairs, is responsible for the inception of the ‘big-picture initiatives’ that have got to do with academic affairs that ultimately impact their students. The decisions provosts take, in more ways than one, can not only shape the student life on campus but also the students’ lives…
The increasing significance of university career development teams is a clear indicator of the evolving role of educational institutions and their increasing obligations towards students. Universities, whose responsibilities, until a few years ago, focused on imparting the prescribed skills to students and granting them credentials upon graduation, are now increasingly being expected to assure…
Although most educational institutions, especially the state-funded ones, do not operate with the stated goal of achieving financial profitability, maintaining a healthy treasury remains a crucial priority for them. To ensure financial prudence, provosts and academic officers must adopt effective budgeting strategies and direct their investments towards academic affairs only after a thorough cost-benefit…
The roles and responsibilities that follow the title of ‘provost’ can be rather nebulous and can vary across educational institutions. A provost or chief academic officer of a university providing higher education, although primarily invested with the responsibility of providing direction to a university’s academic affairs and education goals, is often tasked with a number…
Did you know, most of the students in the US are under tremendous pressure to repay their education loans? While it might be hard for us to believe, it is reported that the average student loan debt was $39,400* in the year 2017. But the picture is not as grim as it may seem. Several…