Programming
Community Crisis: Staying Engaged with Your Faculty, Staff and Learners
John LaBrie | Dean and Associate Provost for Professional Education, Clark UniversityAs COVID-19 continues to develop and impact our everyday lives, higher education is trying its best to quickly respond to each developing issue. As everyone takes on social distancing, how…
Teaching Online from Home? Make Cybersecurity a Priority
James Kenigsberg | Chief Technology Officer, 2UAs a global pandemic forces university campuses to shut down, faculty around the world are doing their best to create academic continuity for students by moving their classes online. Many…
Remote Learning: Peer Resources for Higher Education
James Baldwin | President, Excelsior College John CaronThis marks a new week in ever-changing times as New York State mandated 100 percent of work be done remotely for non -essential businesses. Over a one-week period, Excelsior College…
The Killing of American Higher Education (Part 5)
Alan Yeck | Director of Professional and Continuing Education, Elmira CollegeThe Dirty, Rotten, Crooked, Broken, Student Loan System and the Immoral Bankers, Brokers, Collectors, and Corrupt Politicians Who Make Billions Off of It While the Courts Garnish Wages and Destroy…
How Educator Externships Prepare Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Workforce
Jeff Weld | Executive Director of the Governor's STEM Advisory Council, State of IowaCommonly heard in K-12 and collegiate classrooms across the nation is the age-old question, “When will I ever use this?” Students often struggle to connect the dots between traditional classroom…
Horizontal Stacking of Credentials: Framework and Success Considerations
Pat Tyre | Director, Connecticut Information Technology Institute (CITI), University of ConnecticutMaintaining an educated workforce is critical to most communities. The challenge to continually upskill a workforce (specifically in health care and technology) is uncomfortably obvious to politicians, educators and corporate…
Inspiring Learners, Leaders and Visionaries in the Education-to-Career-Pathway
Christine Carpenter | Vice President of Membership Engagement, CAELFor most people, the greatest value of a conference is the interactions. As attendees engage with colleagues new and old, they can learn from the one another’s successes and setbacks…
The Ins and Outs of Internal Launch: Taking an Online Offering to Market Independently
Leslie Oster | Program Director in the Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern UniversityWhen designing a new program, some institutions turn to Online Program Management (OPM) companies for help. These companies launch programs from scratch and manage many of the administrative aspects required…