At a time when enrollment numbers continue to drop Continuing Education units are to be relied on. Their flexibility, affordability and connection to market needs make them essential in disruptive…
Community College
Tandem Time: How Community Colleges and Workforce Development Programs Go Hand-in-Hand
Alissa Levine | Director of Workforce Development Programs, Kingsborough Community College Jessica CinelliIntegrating Workforce Development programming can be vital to student success and give them more opportunities after graduation while meeting industry needs. Various types of partnerships and collaborations between the institution…
Boot camps disrupt an established industry and offer access to highly specific tech skills to learners who previously may have been left out. Boot camps are a fast and effective…
Going Paperless: How to Effectively Manage Curriculum from Home with Changing Technology and a Changing World
Rob Spohr | Vice President for Academic Affairs, Montcalm Community CollegeFinding a way to streamline a convoluted and cumbersome curriculum refresh process from home is a monumental task. By simplifying the process thanks to easy-to-use systems, schools can find themselves…
Making a difference for students starts from the top, and extends beyond the walls of the institution. Accessibility to quality education can change lives and communities, but finding a way…
Microcredentials: Why Industry Is in the Driver’s Seat
Vis Naidoo | Director of the Centre for Continuing Education and Professional Studies, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) Cheryl Kinzel, Natasja SaranchukClear and consistent definitions for microcredentials are critical to our capacity to scale and leverage these new models to make learning more accessible, flexible and outcome-oriented. Background/Context As Alberta’s industry,…
https://youtu.be/UvTIv-iTVAE Access to funding in Continuing Ed is a challenge that institutions across the United States and the rest of the world face. Finding ways to overcome these challenges, while…
Ideation to Implementation: Engaging Faculty to Lead Innovation
Fabiola Riobe | Associate Provost of Academic Innovation, Online Education & Global Opportunities, Rockland Community CollegeFor so many leaders, lack of faculty buy-in is a major impediment to innovation. However, there are three steps that can be taken to create excitement around transformation. Before the…
The Drawing Board: How Program Design Plays into Student Success
Shannon McCarty | Vice President Learning and Instruction, Calbright CollegeStaying responsive to labor market and employer needs—both today and into the future—is a critical component of delivering the experience and outcomes today's learners expect. Serving students is the core…
The Comeback: How Colleges Can Re-Engage Students with Some Experience but No Degree – Part Two
Lawrence Rouse | President, Pitt Community College Johnny SmithRe defining who adult learners are means changing the way they’re taught. The term “adult learners” means different things to different people. From corporations looking to reskill their employees to…
Reconnecting with students and ensuring they earn their degrees not only bolsters their skills, but provides an opportunity for the institution to learn as well. Nearly 40 million Americans have attended…
Breaking Tradition: How New Developmental Education Models Help Students
Amanda Smith | Associate Vice President of Liberal Arts and Adult Education, Rock Valley CollegeStudents are often solely responsible for their postsecondary academic success, but the institution plays a major part in it as well. Developmental education has become an integral part of the…
When Industry Meets Continuing Education: How Business Partnerships Benefit the Modern Institution
Salvatrice Cummo | Vice President of Economic and Workforce Development, Pasadena City CollegeTransformation and growth in online learning and training is no longer being driven by new technology launches and the promise of possibility. Instead, the focus is on fit within a…
What It Takes for High-Risk Students to Thrive in Higher Ed
Sheila Quirk-Bailey | President, Illinois Central CollegeHigher education tends to focus on that first-level goal for students. When they reach it, we check the box, congratulate them and send them off. But it can be so…
Integrating Workforce Development programming can be vital to student success and give them more opportunities after graduation while meeting industry needs. Various types of partnerships and collaborations between the institution…
Thriving or Falling: The Programs Least Impacted by COVID-19
Brenda Hellyer | Chancellor, San Jacinto Collegehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5BfVMBgTU&ab_channel=ModernCampus Some programs, such as Workforce Development courses, stayed strong during the COVID-19 pandemic, while others saw significant reductions in enrollments. The key to retention could be engaging with students…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLcQtbCMCoY Higher ed enrollments are down over one million since the advent of COVID-19, but the pandemic is not the only factor. Schools have to adapt to today’s students to…
Walk the Walk: How Continuing Ed Can Build Re-Enrollment Pathways for Returning Learners
Richard Rhodes | Chancellor, Austin Community CollegeContinuing Education in North America continues to exist adjacent to higher ed instead of within it. A change is long overdue for the benefit of students and their communities. Cost…
Making a difference for students starts from the top, and extends beyond the walls of the institution. Accessibility to quality education can change lives and communities, but finding a way…
State of Continuing Education 2022: How Continuing Ed Continues to Overcome Obstacles
Sammi Morrill | Associate Vice Chancellor of Operations, Economic and Workforce Development, Alamo Colleges Districthttps://youtu.be/UvTIv-iTVAE Access to funding in Continuing Ed is a challenge that institutions across the United States and the rest of the world face. Finding ways to overcome these challenges, while…
Cybersecurity could be the answer for many in the Great Resignation, but finding a way into the industry can prove challenging. The U.S. labor force is undergoing a drastic change.…
How Boot Camps Are Shifting the Continuing Ed Space
Andrea Sisneros Wichman | Program Director in CNM Ingenuity, Central New Mexico Community CollegeBoot camps disrupt an established industry and offer access to highly specific tech skills to learners who previously may have been left out. Boot camps are a fast and effective…
Colleges can adapt to a diversity of learners, build spaces for them and, in turn, help define the future of not only the institution but the community at large. Colleges…
How Continuing Ed Fits in with The Overarching Institution
Jenna Cullinane Hege | Vice Chancellor for Institutional Research and Analytics, Austin Community CollegeContinuing Education lives in a space with more flexibility and looser state regulation, which can lead to it being thought of as separate, or different, from the rest of a…
By understanding what the job market is looking for, colleges and universities are better prepared when developing the programming that employers will find appealing down the line. College programs and…
How Trades Programs are Building The Future of Education
Ian Howcroft | CEO, Skills Ontario Paul ClipshamAccessibility is key for growing awareness of and enrollment in skilled trades programs, as well as extended learning. Reaching out to students where they are, on their phones, could be…