2015 End-of-Year Thoughts on Branch Campuses: The Macro View
I feel as if I should offer an end-of-the-year post, but I don’t see a lot of change in the past twelve months that would affect what I wrote last year. (See http://branchcampus.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-few-end-of-year-thoughts-on-branch.html and http://branchcampus.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-few-more-end-of-year-thoughts-about.html ) I do have a couple of suggestions for people interested in branch campuses. First, in the past I wrote about immersing yourself in data. It is only by digging into the information available to you that you can confidently identify trends. It is equally important to take a “macro” view of things that are happening broadly, so that you can see the bigger picture beyond your own situation. If you are looking for that macro perspective, you might consider using Google Alerts. I have an alert for “branch campus,” and nearly every afternoon I get an email with one or more hits from the Internet that mention ...