Corporate Partnerships
The corporate training market is incredibly lucrative and growing, with over $1.1 trillion in annual spending, but also extremely competitive. Differentiation and success in the corporate training space requires institutions to create unforgettable experiences that help to forge long-term partnerships with employers.
Effective Employer Partnerships/Engagements in a Post-COVID-19 Environment
Howard Drake | Director of Polk State Corporate College, Polk State CollegeThe key constituencies or stakeholders for the workforce development practitioner are employer organizations. The practitioners have been somewhat successful in creating and delivering training services with mixed results. I can…
Framing States’ Education Attainment Goals at the Local Level: Leveraging Industry Sector Partnerships
Matthew Meyer | Associate Vice President for STEM Innovation and Strategic Planning, North Carolina Community College System Alex DolesWhat do the state initiatives Drive to 55, Launch Oklahoma, myFutureNC, Future Ready Iowa and Educating for the Future all have in common? They are states’ flashy names for education…
The Virtuous Cycle of Work, Learn, Earn
Lewis Brown | Vice President of Partnerships, CAELYou can probably think of several good reasons to champion working adult learners. With a big-picture view of that undertaking, the benefits get bigger too. Expanding awareness of—and access to—potential…
How University Partnerships Can Support Employer Competitiveness
Betty Vandenbosch | Chancellor, Purdue University GlobalAn increasingly competitive labor market and concomitant talent shortages have led to innovative partnerships between higher education and industry. Employers are finding greater value in upskilling their current workforce than…
Inside College-Employer Partnerships: The Importance of Trust
Linda Head | Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of External and Employer Relations, Lone Star College Brooke PolkHigher education administrators, especially those at two-year institutions, understand the importance of partnering with employers to create innovative and market-responsive programming to support community development and enrich the college. Lone…
Positioning Higher Education Institutions to Serve the Corporate Market
Gabe Clevenger | Assistant Vice President of Enrollment Management for Champlain Online, Champlain CollegeThe corporate training and education marketplace is incredibly lucrative, and demand will only continue to grow over time. But higher education is not alone in trying to serve this space.…
A Big DEAL for Little Rhode Island
Meghan Hughes | President, Community College of Rhode Island Julian AlssidRhode Island is now home to one of the most significant experiments to align education and workforce development. At the center of this experiment are Infosys and the Community College…