Corporate Education
Effective Employer Partnerships/Engagements in a Post-COVID-19 Environment
Howard Drake | Director of Polk State Corporate College, Polk State CollegeThe key constituencies or stakeholders for the workforce development practitioner are employer organizations. The practitioners have been somewhat successful in creating and delivering training services with mixed results. I can…
Changing Pace to Serve Employers: Changing the Face of Professional Development
Shelley Osborne | Vice President of Learning, UdemyThe labor market is evolving so rapidly that employees can’t keep pace. As technology advances, the half-life of skills shrinks. This isn’t just a problem for the working professionals, but…
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.…
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…
How Chambers of Commerce Connections Can Help Align Programming with Workforce Needs
Cindy Miller | Director of Columbia College Global Civilian Region 2 and Director of Columbia College Kansas City, Columbia CollegeConversations are taking place in boardrooms across the country about the difficulty in finding and retaining good employees. Now, more than ever, higher education institutions must partner with companies to…