Universities always aim to create tough, relevant, and inclusive curriculums that will serve as a solid foundation to provide the best education for students. A lot of effort is put into identifying courses and skills that are most pertinent to the current job market trends and employer expectations. For instance, educators, at one point, realized…
Every time a new trend, a new invention, some innovation, or some geopolitical turn of events occur, the job market gets recast. And each time the market recasts, the demand for a new skill set at work emerges. So, if universities are creating curriculums and forgetting to update them, then it’s a sheer blunder, to…
Student attrition rate is on a rise, indicating that it’s high time universities took concrete steps to fix the issue. Guesswork and predictions backed with no research cannot be relied upon when dealing with something as valuable as student career. A couple of pioneering universities, therefore, resorted to a more credible and apt-for-the-time method for…
One-third of Americans regret major life decisions, which includes the university they chose, the career they ended up in, and the workplaces they joined. Even though universities in America have dedicated career guides on campus, we still see a significant number of Americans unhappy with their profession. Something is missing here, right? To help students…
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…