Category: Focus Friday

Good morning everyone, Tiffany here. Just a reminder that Focus Friday is today at 12:30-1:30pm Eastern! Joining me today is Pat Lougheed from Plaid Analytics for what I think will be a really fun conversation on data myth busting in higher education. Across the sector, we spend a lot of time talking about being “data-informed,” but there are also plenty of assumptions, half-truths, and recurring narratives that shape institutional decision-making. Today’s conversation will dig into some of the biggest myths that continue to circulate

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. As a reminder, Focus Friday is happening Today! April 17th! 12:30-1:30 EST. This week, we’re turning to another area where institutions are navigating rapid change: the future of online and distance learning. Over the past few years, institutions have been expanding their offerings, invested in digital infrastructure, and experimented with new delivery models and yet questions remain about what students actually want, what “flexibility” really means in practice, and how institutions can build models that are

Hi all,  Tiffany here. It’s Focus Friday and today we have a chance to lean into a topic that many of you have been asking about: the relationship between industry and postsecondary institutions. So, today’s session (12:30-1:30 ET) will explore that broader ecosystem, beyond just work-integrated learning, and diving into research partnerships, commercialization, applied research, talent development, and how institutions and industry are actually working together (or could be working together better). Lindsey Fair from Invest Ottawa for this conversation.

Hi all, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern! In this session, we’ll be joined by colleagues from the University of Alberta to talk about how institutions are beginning to use AI across multiple parts of the university. Rather than focusing on a single initiative, the conversation will explore how AI is being integrated across teaching and learning, research, IT, the library, and graduate programming. One of the challenges many institutions are facing

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today, from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern. Coming out of several recent conversations, whether on institutional recovery, sustainability, or governance, one theme keeps surfacing: institutions are being asked to make difficult academic decisions in an increasingly constrained financial environment. And yet, many of those decisions are made without a clear, shared understanding of what programs actually cost to deliver. So this week, we’re turning our attention to program-level financial viability and