Higher Education
Leading Through Uncertainty
These are tumultuous times for higher education. Universities are under fire for being too expensive and offering majors with seemingly no real-world applications. Student protests have roiled campuses, and research is under attack. Higher education leaders could be excused if they feel despair—or even consider abandoning the field altogether for calmer waters. But BU Wheelock […]
A Degree for This Moment
BU Wheelock’s new Executive Doctor of Education (EdD) in Higher Education Leadership has been in the works for several years, and program director Sherri Hughes says it feels like the program—whose inaugural cohort of students began in September 2025—is launching at exactly the right time. “As we watched higher ed get struck by another round […]
A College Leader Makes Connections
The University of Hawaii might be the most ethnically diverse academic institution in America. Across its ten campuses on six islands, only one-fifth identify as Caucasian, and the plurality are indigenous Hawaiians. One of these campuses, the Windward Community College in Kaneohe (on the island of Oahu) is two-fifths native Hawaiian—and another one-fifth descendants of […]
Creating a Student-Centered Experience
Over more than a century, traditions emerged in higher education that evolved into constraining, never-questioned practices, such as the notion of “student credit hours” as the measure of learning. This worked well for those delivering higher education, but not always for those receiving that education. Currently, there 40 million Americans who began but never finished […]
Making Student Loan Programs Fair
According to the Education Data Initiative, there are around 42.7 million students who have federal loan debt, which totals approximately $1.7 trillion. To understand some of the complex issues facing these students, BU Wheelock’s Jerry Whitmore, Jr., is studying debt forgiveness programs and state initiatives that people may not be aware about. His study is […]
A Student-Driven Curriculum for Adult Learners
Adam Bush is co-founder and current president of College Unbound, a nonprofit educational institution that serves adult learners. Founded a decade ago in Providence, Rhode Island, College Unbound now has locations in a dozen cities across the United States. The founders’ vision was to create a college that could welcome full-time workers and parents who […]