Pine Manor College, a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, has responded to the intense financial and operational pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic in a unique way: by partnering with nearby Boston College to become the Pine Manor Institute for Student Success. Peter Alcock, a Pine Manor trustee who has been a key driver of positioning PMC for this initiative, sat down with ACTA’s Armand Alacbay to share lessons learned that will prove instructive for many other institutions around the country.
Hanna Stotland, JD is an admissions consultant specializing in educational crisis management. She has helped students overcome virtually every kind of educational interruption, from mental illness to academic failure to disciplinary and criminal consequences. Ms. Stotland sat down for a Q&A with Dr. Jonathan Pidluzny, Vice President of Academic Affairs at ACTA, to discuss the admissions […]
With uncertain enrollment numbers and precarious state budgets, America’s colleges and universities face a steep financial crisis in the coming years. And as countless families continue to struggle to stay afloat through illness, unemployment, and general economic uncertainty, higher education’s typical failsafe for making up for shortfalls—the annual tuition increase—may not be a reliable option […]
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President Emeritus of The George Washington University, rejoins the podcast to explore higher education’s response to the current national crisis around instances of police brutality and the protests against systemic racism. ACTA’s president, Michael Poliakoff, kicks off the conversation.
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