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.
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…
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…
Seven Key Ingredients of Successful Contract Training
Alex Read | Program Development Strategist in the College of Continuing Education, Sacramento State University Hei FokYour continuing education institution needs to recognize the difference between B2B and B2C sales and service delivery. Marketing and delivering contract training to local companies requires different strategies than degree…
Lack of Relevance the Largest Stumbling Block to Higher Ed’s Success in Corporate Learning
Gustaf Nordbäck | Chief Executive Officer, FT|IE Corporate Learning AllianceThe corporate training marketplace is incredibly lucrative. With an estimated $161 billion to $177 billion spent on corporate education each year in the United States alone, serving this market well…