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Transform Your Team: Eight Key Elements to Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Travette Webster | Director of Administrative and Student Support Services, Houston Community CollegeProcess improvement is more than an exciting concept used in the manufacturing space. When done correctly, it sets the foundation for a cultural shift that drives efficiency and effectiveness throughout…
What Strategic Leadership Looks Like in Practice
Alison Witherspoon | Vice President of Continuous Improvement, American College of EducationStrategic leadership in education is critical to success in an ever-changing market. This message is increasingly popular in articles and at conferences geared toward education professionals. Earlier this year, I…
Moving Courses Online Post COVID-19: Consider These Factors Before Taking the Plunge
Alison Witherspoon | Vice President of Continuous Improvement, American College of EducationAs universities suddenly pivot to online teaching in response to COVID-19, administrators and faculty may wonder if this is the catalyst they needed to stimulate the development of truly online…
How a Culture of Continuous Improvement Drives Long-Term Divisional Health and Growth
Max Milder | Consultant for Strategic Research, EABFor many postsecondary divisions—even continuing education and professional development divisions—it takes declining enrollments and persistent warning flags to trigger a program review. But is this the best method to ensure…
Continuous Improvement and Innovation: They Are Interconnected Through Research
Michael Hites | Chief Information Officer, Southern Methodist UniversityContinuous improvement helps fix broken business processes and inefficient services. To these ends, innovation in administrative process is sometimes perceived as using fancy, new software to automate business processes or…
Continuous Improvement and Innovation
The EvoLLLutionThe higher education marketplace is not for the faint of heart. The demands of students and employers are rapidly and constantly evolving. The resources institutions have at their disposal are…
“Change?”: How to Drive Continuous Improvement on a University Campus
Chaouki Abdallah | Acting President, University of New Mexico & Greg Heileman | Associate Provost for Student and Academic Life, University of Kentucky & Terry Babbitt | Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management, University of New Mexico“When the winds of change blow, some build walls, others build windmills.” - Ancient Proverb There is a joke making the rounds of Academia recently: Question: How many faculty members…
Mapping Accountability: Plan your Work then Work your Plan
Tammy Lynn Woody | Director of Continuous Program Improvement, American Public University SystemOne of the most frequent conversations we have at our institution focuses on increasing our accountability to both our students and future employers. Now, more than ever, there is a…
Continual Improvement is Key to Success: Three Factors to Making it Part of Your Institutional Culture
Becky Takeda-Tinker | President, Colorado State University—Global CampusIn today’s higher education environment of declining enrollments and only half of entering students actually completing their programs, institutions that seek to be viable in the long run must be…
Pursuing a Major Business Process Improvement Implementation: Why Take the Plunge? (Part 1)
Bill Liddick | Associate Director of Enterprise Application Architecture, Ithaca College & Nick Farthing | Project Manager and Business Analyst in Information Technology, Ithaca CollegeThis is the first installment of a three-part series that will explore why you might take on a major project, reflect on who needs to be involved (and when/how), and…
Hurdles to the Improvement of Online Courses and Programs
Di Xu | Assistant Professor in the School of Education, UC IrvineIn two recent articles written for The EvoLLLution (found here and here) on semester-length, fully-online college coursework, I discussed the challenges many community colleges students face in an online learning…
CIOs Driving the Institutional Improvement Train
Paige Francis | CIO and Vice President for IT, University of TulsaPicture this: higher education ten years ago. The university environment. The role of the Chief Information Officer. Unlike today, someone traversing the path of the university CIO was more than…
COVID-19 Calls for Pivoting Towards Supporting Partners and Students
Stephanie Hinshaw | Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, American College of Education & Alison Witherspoon | Vice President of Continuous Improvement, American College of EducationRaise your hand if you know how to run a college in a global pandemic. No hands raised? Over the years, we have learned how to support students and partners…
Personalization at Scale: Using Analytics for Institutional Improvement
Elizabeth Mulherrin | Assistant Vice Provost for Student Success, University of Maryland University College—Co-written with Laura Fingerson | Interim Director of Institutional Research, Capella University— The first installment of this series, Personalization at Scale: Two Institutional Journeys, described the similarities and differences between two…
Improvement Of Non-Traditional And Adult Student Teaching Processes
D. Bruce Dearing | Program Lead Instructor and Assessment Coordinator, San Joaquin Valley CollegeWith an increase of non-traditional* and adult students** in the education system, beyond streamlined administrative and support services, how teaching is conducted is of primary importance for improved student, course…
MAY PANEL | Continuous Adult Education Contributes To A Strong And Skilled Workforce
George Mouzakitis | Academic Dean, e-DEKA—Co-written with Despoina Goutou | MSc student in International Management, Exeter University and Assistant Researcher, e-DEKA Educational Organization— It is accepted that three issues have been the dominating concern over…
Measure What Matters: Time for Higher Education to Find Their Eureka Moment
John Cosgrove | Senior Partner, Cosgrove & Associates & Maggie CosgroveAs the story goes, the Greek mathematician and measurement guru Archimedes, upon discovering the best measurement to evaluate the purity of a gold crown, exclaimed Eureka! Having previously served as…
Providing Alternative Pathways to “15 to Finish”
Karen Stout | President and CEO, Achieving the DreamThe campaign underway to promote the “15 to Finish” concept of encouraging college students to earn at least 15 credits each semester is gaining interest among a number of public…
The 5 Ds: A Collaborative Model for Learning Design (Part 2)
Bonnie Budd | Manager of Learning Design and Analytics in the Graduate School of Education, Harvard UniversityThis is the conclusion of a two-part series by Bonnie Anderson discussing the 5 D’s Framework to support collaboration. The 5 D’s are Discovery, Design, Development, Delivery and Debrief. Anderson…
Partnering with an Industry Giant to Fill Skills Gaps and Support Job Readiness
Lenore Rodicio | Executive Vice President and Provost, Miami Dade CollegeIn December 2018, Miami Dade College (MDC) launched a certificate program in partnership with Facebook to help train students, small business owners, entrepreneurs and others in digital marketing. This partnership…
Strategies to Foster an Innovative Culture
Benjamin Deaton | Vice President of the Office of Technology, Online Learning and Innovation, Anderson University & Josh Herron | Dean of Online and Continuous Learning, Anderson UniversityAnderson University (S.C.) is a comprehensive university with a combination of professional and liberal arts programs serving about 3,500 students with a growing online population and a residential emphasis on…
The Science of Digital Growth: Exploring Best Practices in Online Programming and Innovation
Lou Pugliese | Senior Innovation Fellow and Managing Director of Technology at the Innovation Action Lab, Arizona State UniversityIn March 2018, the EdPlus Action Lab at Arizona State University released Making Digital Learning Work: Success Strategies from Six Leading Universities and Community Colleges. The comprehensive study, conducted in…
Driving Opportunities for Change: How Users Can Mobilize Change in their Divisions
Ligia Cicos | Project and Organizational Change Manager, Edmonds Community College & Daniel Cordas | Project Manager, Seattle CollegesIn every workplace, opportunities for improvement and innovation abound, but how does one get started? What seems to be the problem or opportunity? What are potential solutions and outcomes? Who…
Student-Centric and Data-Driven: Designing the Institution to Support Success
Chris Bustamante | President, Rio Salado CollegeThe conditions in the two-year college environment have changed significantly in recent years. Many of these colleges are open-enrollment institutions, however their goalposts for success have shifted from access to…
Reacting To Change: A 20-Point Plan for Higher Education’s Continued Relevance
Earl Harewood | Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University/School of Higher EducationHow much flexibility exists within higher education institutions to react to change and alter organizational models? In art, primary colors are mixed together to get secondary colors and even secondary…
The $10,000 Degree and the Growth of Online Education at Fayetteville State University
Jon Young | Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff, Fayetteville State UniversityFayetteville State University’s $10,000 (or $10K) Degree Pathway—unveiled by Chancellor James A. Anderson in August 2018—launches a new chapter in this North Carolina public HBCU’s expansion of its mission through…
Focusing on Relevancy and Flexibility: Solidifying the Place of the Community College
Lenore Rodicio | Executive Vice President and Provost, Miami Dade CollegeCommunity colleges play a critical role in the health of a community. Providing individuals—often from traditionally-underserved demographics—with an entry point into postsecondary learning and opportunities for upskilling and reskilling, all…
Supporting Employee Learning Strengthens the Corporation from Within
Karen Kocher | Chief Learning Officer, CignaOngoing learning presents a number of advantages for professionals in today’s labor market, but some employers tend to be concerned that investing in ongoing education will lead employees to gain…
DAETE: Benchmarking Lifelong Learning Management
Alfredo Soeiro | EUCEN Representative, Universidade do PortoThe case study of quality management in LLL is based on the project DAETE (daete.up.pt). This was a project funded by the European Commission and by the United States of…
Time To Get Cultured
Stephen Gill | Independent Consultant and Member of the Board of Trustees, Washtenaw Community CollegeThe biggest workplace hurdle to identifying and assessing development and training needs is lack of a “learning culture.” Organizational culture is defined as the values, assumptions, beliefs, behaviors, and norms…