Positioning The Academy To Serve The Corporate Education Market
Robbin Page | Vice President of Human Resources, FedEx ExpressAnnual expenditures on employee education are significant—the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce pegged annual employer spending on formal training at $177 billion—and the costs of not investing in…
When Funders Call For A Map of Credential Transparency Initiatives, We Should Pay Attention
Holly Zanville | Strategy Director for the Future of Learning & Work, Lumina FoundationToday’s credential marketplace is confusing and chaotic for job seekers, employers and policymakers alike, with hundreds of thousands of credentials available in the U.S. alone, and little data available about…
Redefining Norms Critical to Sustained Relevance in the Changing Postsecondary Environment
Hunt Lambert | Dean of Continuing Education and Extension, Harvard UniversityHigher education has existed for over a millennium in an effectively unchanged state, but the impetus to transform has arrived. Fast-changing labor demands, evolving learner expectations and transformed market realities…
Reshaping the College to Avoid Failing the Modern Learner
Alan Kadish | President, Touro CollegeNon-traditional students are here to stay. Some 41 percent of students enrolled in higher education are 25 or older. The National Center on Educational Statistics forecasts that the adult student…