Category: Focus Friday

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

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today, February 6th, from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern. Over the past few Focus Friday sessions, we’ve spent a lot of time sitting with the pressures facing postsecondary institutions: financial constraint, political intervention, governance challenges, and the sense that many institutions are being asked to change faster than ever before. Today, we want to shift the lens slightly. Rather than focusing only on constraint, this session asks a different question: what