As COVID-19 keeps everyone off campus, colleges and universities are looking to deliver an effective remote learning environment. The current circumstances create a unique set of challenges for all divisions…
Business Schools
Disruptive Innovation Goes to Business School: Is the MBA Dead?
Ted Cross | Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in the College of Business, Western Governors University Rashmi Prasad, Sunil RamlallManagement education has changed significantly over the last few decades (Batista, 2019). In particular, MBA degrees are being revamped in a bid to ensure they stay relevant in the 21st…
Recently, there have been plenty of articles written about the fall of the traditional MBA program. Institutions have shut down their traditional MBAs and invested all of their resources into…
Horizontal Stacking of Credentials: Framework and Success Considerations
Pat Tyre | Director of the 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…
It is an exciting time for business education. For most of the past half century the reputations of American business schools have been defined largely by their MBA programs. Ironically,…
Willing to Fail: Evolving Graduate Business Education to Keep Pace with Market Needs
Caryn L. Beck-Dudley | Dean of the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara UniversityThose of us who lead business schools have known for a while that graduate business education is changing dramatically. Most MBAs, including ours, have lost enrollment over several years. The…
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) programs have been popping up at colleges, universities and within organizations in rapid succession over the past several years. In response to calls for more…
Disrupting the Adult Student Lifecycle in Online Higher Education
Dennis Bonilla | Vice President of the Employer and Academic Partnership Group, University of PhoenixI believe the term âdisruptionâ is often misunderstood in the context of innovation. Disruption can be incorrectly perceived as a market breakthrough or an improvement to a typical business trajectory.…
With their increased granularity, transparency and portability, digital credentials are quickly supplanting the paper certificate as a means of non-degree skills verification in leading-edge continuing and professional education units. They…
Measuring the Value of Digital Credentials (Part One): The Shared Benefits of Microcredentialing
Jonathan Lehrich | Associate Director of Strategy and Projects in the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard UniversityWith their increased granularity, transparency and portability, digital credentials are quickly supplanting the paper certificate as a means of non-degree skills verification in leading-edge continuing and professional education units. They…
Virtually all US postsecondary institutions today are grappling with profound and near unprecedented change and disruption, both of which are redefining much of the American higher education marketplace. Among the…
Open Loop Education: Codifying the Lifelong Learning Partnership Between Students and Institutions
Scott DeRue | Dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of MichiganReports say the near-future threat of automation will one day require working adults in every industry to continue educating themselves to stay employable and ahead of the curve. The truth…
With the passage of Post 9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Act of 2008, more commonly referred to as the Post 9/11 GI Bill, institutions of higher education experienced a dramatic influx…
Measuring High-Quality Online Instruction: Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a Faculty Development Process
Scott Dolan | Associate Dean of the School of Business and Technology, Excelsior College Jessica Lamendola, Cheryl McPhillips, Santhosh Abraham, Brenda Hardy, Shou-Bang JianAmong the challenges facing higher education, few are more critical than the issue of effective instruction. In fact, for Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize award-winning physicist, the biggest problem with higher…
Online education has, in many ways, changed the face of the higher education industry. Beyond creating greater expectations around self-pacing, flexibility and service, it has impacted the markets any college…
Changes in Management Education: Three Themes Defining the Sector
Brent Chrite | President, Bethune-Cookman UniversityOver the past decade or so, wide varieties of economic and competitive forces have directly impacted American-based management education institutions. Many of the factors and conditions that have upended traditional…
As with most other faculties across the postsecondary landscape, the business education marketplace is evolving quickly. Students and employers alike are questioning the value of traditional offeringsâincluding the MBA, which…
The Transforming Corporate Education Environment: Comparing Competitive Advantages
David Frayer | Director of Executive Programs at the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State UniversityThe corporate education marketplace is incredibly lucrative, but immensely competitive. Within the market are numerous playersâprivate organizations, consultancies, colleges, universities and moreâleveraging their unique competitive advantages and jockeying for position…
Given the speed of change in every industry, thereâs greater recognition of the importance of ongoing education just to ensure working professionals keep pace. The corporate education marketplace is massive…
Big Data: Transcending Disciplines in Higher Education
Anteneh Ayanso | Director of the Centre for Business Analytics in the Goodman School of Business, Brock UniversityFor higher education to be truly successful, institutions need to consider both what students want, and what society is going to need from them once they leaveâthere needs to be…
The MBA marketplace in the United States is fiercely competitive. There are numerous competitors offering their own spin on the credential, and many more offering alternatives. Whatâs more, the credentials…
Responsiveness, Rigor and Student-Centricity Will Spell Success for Business Schools
Alex Sevilla | Associate Dean and Director of the Heavener School of Business, University of FloridaThe higher education marketplace is evolving and, with it, business schools are shifting as well. Like their colleagues across the institution, business school leaders are in a new position where…
Todayâs higher education market is competitive, crowded and evolving. The range of competition has grown enormously, from other institutions within a 10-mile radius to every college and university in the…
Responsiveness and Collaboration: Developing a Distinctive, Holistic, Market-Driven MSBA
Jeffrey Camm | Associate Dean of Business Analytics in the School of Business, Wake Forest UniversityWhat does it take to develop and launch a successful masterâs program from scratch on an accelerated time frame? The brief answer may be obvious: committed university and school administration,…
Veterans leave the military having received a significant amount of training along with a wealth of work and life experiences to draw upon. Service members are trained in one of…
Transformation in the Business Education Marketplace: Experience as a Differentiator
Philip Powell | Associate Dean of Academic Programs at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana UniversityThe business education marketplace is transforming rapidly. The expectationsâand demographicsâof students are shifting rapidly, as are the needs of the employers looking to hire them. More and more business schools…
The business education marketplace is transforming rapidly. The expectationsâand demographicsâof students are shifting rapidly, as are the needs of the employers looking to hire them. More and more business schools…
What Makes a Great Business College?
Nancy Taylor | Director of MS in Supply Chain Management Program at the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University David ClossWhat are the qualities that make a business college great? MSUâs Broad College of Business is asked that question many times, as students consider applying to our various top-ranked…
Corporations across the globe have been focused on the question of innovation for decades and longer. The desire to become leaner, better and more efficient has driven innovative leaders for…
Transforming the Institution to Treat Students Like Customers
Mark Farrell | Head of the Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University John Davis Todayâs students are discerning, price-conscious and outcomes-oriented. They have higher expectations when it comes to service and quality than ever before. Whatâs more, they have almost complete freedom…