Welcome to the Collection! New Innovations This Week

We welcome the following higher education innovations to the collection this week. Please take a moment to read about them, comment, and rate the innovations.

• Atlas Black Business Textbooks. The use of the graphic-novel genre provides a medium where key concepts are presented in a story format, allowing for an increase of student engagement with course content.

• SCVNGR. Using this location-based mobile app as a means to facilitate student engagement with orientation programs & student activities may contribute to greater student retention.

• Rutgers Business School Entrepreneurship Pioneers Initiative. The program focuses on revitalizing the city of Newark and in order to do this develops a variety of partnerships in the community, and emphasizes community development as well as economic growth.

• The Accelerator and Project Olympus at Carnegie Mellon University. The Accelerator and its Project Olympus are taking direct action to avoid brain drain in the Pittsburgh area by supporting top entrepreneurial talent and creating local career opportunities.

Let us know if you have a suggestion for an innovation in higher education that we should be including in the collection!