Lilla Ross

Too much data is fragmenting universities and the students they serve

Kara Ball always knew she wanted to be a teacher. She even practiced with pretend classes attended by her family.
It was an above-average ambition for the girl who was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade, dyscalculia in sixth grade and dismissed by a teacher in 10th grade as “stupid.” 
“School was always a challenge. I had to work twice as hard. I had a lot of anxiety,” Ball says. “I don’t think I understood it. Dad understood it. He was dyslexic, too.” 
She credits her supportive family with...

All around the country, universities are moving downtown. Some are expanding existing campuses, but many others are launching new ones. It’s happening in New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Georgia and Pennsylvania. They are representative of a national trend to better position students for job opportunities and universities for industry and community engagement.
Florida is leading the trend:
And next year, the University of Florida in Gainesville plans to launch a new graduate campus 75 miles north in Jac...

The University of North Florida has a new requirement for incoming students: to have some form of experiential, hands-on learning before graduation, including an internship, research project or leadership opportunity.“We want to produce a career-ready workforce,” said Scott Curry, senior director, industry engagement. “It’s part of our strategy to grow from 17,000 to 25,000 students by the end of the decade.
To help make that happen, UNF has created Soaring Together, a play on the university’s m...