Operations and Efficiency
Meeting heightened student demands with plummeting operational budgets in a competitive and commoditized environment is no easy task for higher education leaders. Long-term viability and success require operational effectiveness and efficiency that is somewhat foreign to post-secondary management.
Aligning College and Careers: Working With Industry to Shrink the Skills Gap
Jeff Lynn | Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic Development, Alabama Community College SystemConsisting of 25 community and technical colleges, the Alabama Community College System is responsible for adult education and workforce development across the state. In this interview, Jeff Lynn discusses the…
The New Workforce Professionals Academy: Cultivating the Next Generation of Workforce Leaders
Darlene Miller | Executive Director, National Council for Workforce EducationThe Problem With all sectors of American business and industry struggling to find qualified employees, most rely on colleges and other training organizations to educate their workforce. Concomitantly, the process…
Measuring the Value of Digital Credentials (Part Two): The Role of Efficiency in Delivering Agility
Jonathan Lehrich | Associate Dean of Executive Education in the Questrom School of Business, Boston UniversityWith their increased granularity, transparency and portability, digital credentials are quickly supplanting the paper certificate as a means of non-degree skills verification in leading-edge continuing and professional education units. They…
Five Things I Didn’t Know About Being a University President (Until I Became One)
Martha Saunders | President, University of West FloridaI thought I was ready to be a president. After all, I had decades of involvement in higher education. My Curriculum Vitae purely sparkled with the work assignments, titles and…
MoWINs: Creating Win-Wins through Partnerships
Dawn Busick-Drinkard | MoWINs Project Director, Missouri Community College AssociationBeginning in 2011, Missouri’s community and technical colleges banded together to apply for three rounds of the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT grant program. Since the consortium was formed, thousands of…
Guiding Philosophies for Launching an Online Education Office
Robert Griffiths | Associate Vice President of Distance Education and eLearning, Ohio State UniversityIn an earlier post about the strategies I used to grow an online education office and weave online practices into the fabric of Ohio State University, I mentioned that how…
Overcoming Siloes: Promoting More Collegial Collaboration Within Postsecondary Institutions
Angela Baldasare | Senior Strategic Consultant, Civitas LearningWhy can’t we all just get along? One of my favorite things about working at a university is being surrounded by smart, dedicated colleagues who share the same goals of…