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.
Why Student Veterans Need to be a Part of the Conversation
Kay Yoon | Associate Professor, University of Colorado – Colorado Spring Katie SullivanStudent veterans are willing and wanting to be a part of the higher education conversation—leaders need to give them the platform on which to share their experiences. Coming out of…
The Age of Education as a Benefit Package: Marketing Experiential Pathways for Learners to the Workforce
Brandon Busteed | President, Kaplan University Partners Ed Up ExperienceWhen it comes to experiential marketing, adult learners are looking for something affordable that will get them to the workforce quickly. It’s important for institutions to show not only the…
This is the Push We Need for an Online Future
Ian Allen | Executive Director of the College of Extended Learning, University of New BrunswickGoing online may be more important now than ever, as the COVID-19 pandemic pushes everyone to explore new options. Of course, as institutions begin to settle into a remote learning…
Defining Higher Education’s New Normal
Michael Horn | Senior Strategist, Guild Education & Co-Founder, Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive InnovationAs institutions deal with the current COVID-19 crisis, they must simultaneously prepare for a recession on the horizon, defined by severe job losses and fundamental economic change. In this interview,…
Scaling CBE to Democratize Postsecondary Access & Success in Delivering A New Vision of Lifelong Learning
Ryan Ivers | Goal Lead, Southern New Hampshire UniversityThe Challenge Ahead of Us Challenges lie ahead of every industry, but with the complexity we are seeing in the V.U.C.A. environment today, what worked for previous generations will not …
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Dave King | Associate Provost (Retired) and Professor Emeritus, Oregon State UniversityTruly innovative ideas invariably encounter pushback from factions committed to maintaining the status quo. The original annual Sloan survey — and more recently the Babson/Seamon study — show incremental improvement…
The ROI of CBE: A Six-Year Analysis
Carlos Rivers | Operations Research Analyst in the Institute for Competency-Based Education, Texas A&M University-Commerce Yvonne Villanueva-Russell, James FountainIntroduction This short analysis builds upon the work of an original case study published by Texas A&M University-Commerce in The Journal of Competency-Based Education titled, “Competency‐based education: An evolutionary higher…