Find Your Institution’s Pumpkin Spice Latte
If you’re looking around at other institutions’ products trying to figure out how to replicate them, you’ve already lost. Don’t come at the problem from the perspective of “this thing is wildly popular; how can we do a version of it?” Instead, try “what product are we uniquely equipped to make?”
Higher Education's Survival Guide: Lessons from Blockbuster and Apple
Here we are, approaching 2023, looking at huge and permanent changes within higher education. If your institution’s response to these trends is to hope things will be “normal again,” you should be concerned.
5 Essential Tips for Crafting Effective Mission Statements in Higher Ed
Don’t say “great” if you mean “remarkable;” don’t use “succeed” if you mean “thrive.” I wish there was a nicer way to say it, but there isn’t, so: don’t be boring.
4 Secrets to Maximizing the Impact of Your Mission Statement
A wise man once said, “If you try to go in every direction, you’ll end up nowhere.” That man was my neighbor Carl, and he was explaining that I was mowing my lawn like an moron, but his prudent words apply to missions and landscaping alike.
To the Class of 2022
Each graduating class steps out into a slightly different world than did the class preceding them. This is, of course, only natural—as Heraclitus famously said, “change is the only constant in life”—but even so, the class of 2022 has had to persevere through some unique difficulties. In light of that, the EduCred Services Team wanted to, first, congratulate the tenacious class of 2022, and second, offer some pieces of advice that we wish someone had shared with us.
5 Reasons Higher Education Is Thriving Despite Challenges
We do a lot of reading here at EduCred Services, and I have a confession: when I see an article title that starts, “Higher Education is Broken,” “How to Fix Higher Ed by…,” or similar, I want to skip it.