New and Innovative Market Opportunities
As higher education’s traditional market of high school graduates shrinks, college and university leaders need to become more creative in finding markets to serve. Identifying new and innovative revenue streams and adapting to serve them well will also ensure institutions are not reliant on the continued strength of a single demographic.
Realizing Transformation through Structural and Cultural Change: Defining and Pursuing the Vision
Hugh Brock | Associate Provost of Academic Innovation, University of British ColumbiaIn 2017, the University of British Columbia transformed Continuing Studies to UBC Extended Learning, mandated to meet the needs of 21st-century learners as part of its Career and Personal Education…
Will the OIG Audit of WGU Cool Interest in CBE?
A. Sasha Thackaberry | Associate Vice Provost of Online and Distance Education, Louisiana State UniversityThe Office of the Inspector General’s audit of Western Governors University’s course-based Competency-Based Education (CBE) model was a hyper-literal interpretation of federal regulations. What effect will the OIG’s conclusions, recommending…
Supporting Career Changers Critical to Addressing the Teacher Shortage
Angie Besendorfer | Chancellor, WGU MissouriAccording to the Learning Policy Institute, during the 2017-18 school year there will be a shortfall of 100,000 teachers. And the problem appears to be getting worse, not better. The…
Mapping the Trends on Our Doorstep: The Pace of Change Has Changed
Daniel Christian | Chief Learning Architect, Learning from the Living [Class] RoomThis article has been adapted from a video presentation by Daniel Christian. For many years now, I’ve been pulse-checking a variety of landscapes—scanning for emerging technologies, trends, and tools that…
Putting Students First Isn’t Rocket Science: Hitting Refresh on Scholarship Management
Ken Downs | Manager of ScholarshipUniverse, University of Arizona“If you build it, they will come.” From the 1989 American fantasy-sports drama Field of Dreams, today that quote has its own meme (in fact, its own meme generator). And…
Agents of an Untelevised Revolution in Higher Education
Shenita Ray | Director for Online Operations in the School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown UniversityVisible and invisible forces are demanding that traditional postsecondary institutions change to accommodate a brand new world, a new reality, a different playing field in which the present and future…
Bringing a New Kind of Medical School to Market
Elizabeth Pimentel | Dean of the School of Naturopathic Medicine, Maryland University of Integrative HealthThe medical field is in a constant state of change and evolution, pushing medical schools to keep up with the latest education, techniques and research. All told, however, the majority…