The University of Akron layoffs you haven’t heard about …yet April 15th, 2016 The costs of treating higher education like a business an op-ed by Chris Drabick; feature image by Ilenia Pezzaniti I lost my full-time job at the University of Akron. I am, until the end of the Spring semest...
TrustNavigator Success Coach threatens to pull UA students out of class March 4th, 2016 by Chris Horne With freshmen enrollment projected to sharply decline in the fall and University of Akron officials prepare to sign a new contract with TrustNavigator, one of the company’s 16 coaches expected t...
Toeing the Rubber: How the University of Akron saved money for football by costing its baseball players thousands August 26th, 2015 by Chris Horne NOTE: The Devil Strip is still waiting for responses from the University of Akron regarding the cancellation of the baseball program. In lieu of that, we’re leaning on interviews President Scott...
A Tale of Two Proposals: Sorting out TrustNavigator’s pitch for UA’s student success coaching job August 1st, 2015 How does a six-person startup with no client base and zero experience in higher education beat out a lauded firm with 325 employees that’s worked with 1 million students? by Chris Horne tl;dr highlights: ...
