Shorter approval times for new programs means students who aren’t necessarily interested in a four year degree can get the most out of their education in a shorter timespan. Advancements…
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…
The 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…
Higher 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.…
Annual 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…
Your continuing education institution needs to recognize the difference between B2B and B2C sales and service delivery. Marketing and delivering contract training to local companies requires different strategies than degree…
Lack of Relevance the Largest Stumbling Block to Higher Ed’s Success in Corporate Learning
Gustaf Nordbäck | Chief Executive Officer, FT|IE Corporate Learning AllianceThe corporate training marketplace is incredibly lucrative. With an estimated $161 billion to $177 billion spent on corporate education each year in the United States alone, serving this market well…
The corporate training market is incredibly lucrative, with some estimates valuing the space between $161 billion and $177 billion per year. For colleges and universities to increase their market share…
Is The Force With SPOCs? How Small, Private Online Courses Are Taking On MOOCs for Corporate Supremacy
Liz-Ann Gayle | Global Head of Learning and Innovation, Headspring Idris CroftThe corporate training market is large, competitive and immensely promising for education providers who can stand out and serve the needs of the space. Colleges and universities have been competing…
Community colleges across the United States are facing challenging times and market conditions. With ever-greater expectations placed on them from external observers, many colleges have seen their three-leg funding model…
How a Successful Customized Training Division Benefits the Rest of the Institution
Carol Howard | Director of the School of Extended Education, Brandman UniversityMany postsecondary institutions now include some form of corporate and customized training division. And most of them provide numerous benefits to these divisions, including access to academic faculty and programming.…
Launching a new program is a great time for any Continuing Education department. There is a sense of excitement and enthusiasm at the possibility of what this program will mean…
Seven Ways to Drive Successful Corporate Partnerships
Lisa LaVigna | Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, Excelsior CollegeThe old adage says “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” In this case I propose Corporate America (or do we say global corporations?) are from Mars and Institutions…
The Learning and Development function is just like any other business process; it must evolve as employees and organizations mature, change and grow. To stay current in today’s constantly shifting…
Relevance and Convenience Prioritized by Both Employers and Employees
Robert David | Director of Corporate and Professional Programs, UC Berkeley ExtensionThe corporate and executive education marketplaces are incredibly lucrative, but also immensely competitive. Employers have high expectations of their learning partners—both in the manner of the partnership and in its…
There are over 3000 four-year universities in the U.S., many providing some type of professional development or corporate training. That’s a good thing. But in today’s world of customized shopping…
Leveraging Synergies: The Benefits of Strength in Open Enrollment and Custom Corporate Education
Stephen Burnett | Managing Director, Executive Education CollectiveCorporate spending on executive development is highly sensitive to economic conditions. The Great Recession of 2007-2009 reduced the executive education revenues of many schools by 30 percent or more over the…
In each tailored corporate training interaction we are seeking one outcome: success. The challenge arises when we are fully cognizant that there is another party that is also seeking that…
Five Tips to Stand Out in Today’s Competitive Custom Training Market
Catherine Jones | Associate Vice President of Workforce Development, McHenry County CollegeIn today’s crowded custom training marketplace, employers are demanding more from outsourced providers than merely a quick, easy and affordable training solution. Companies are looking to colleges and universities with…
Ongoing learning presents a number of advantages for professionals in today’s labor market, but some employers tend to be concerned that investing in ongoing education will lead employees to gain…
The Hidden Benefits of Corporate Training Programs
Vicki Brannock | Director of Workforce Strategy and Innovation, Biocom InstituteWhen universities think about the benefits of non-credit programs the first thing that comes to mind is revenue generation. But really that is only a piece of what these programs…
There’s a lot of “noise” in the corporate education space and competition can be fierce. One critical area that we are always looking at is how to differentiate our continuing…
Internal Partnerships Make External Partnerships a Reality in Corporate Education
George Irvine | Assistant Director of Organizational Learning Solutions, University of DelawareThe professional education and corporate training marketplaces are exploding in value, which makes them lucrative for universities but also more competitive. Standing out in this space requires institutions to go…
Developing talent within organizations is essential to maintain a competitive knowledge supply-chain advantage. For some organizations, the validation standard for professional development programs involves whether or not alignment to organizational…
The Online Educational Environment is Rich With Possibilities for Employers
Rolando Lange | Director of TenarisUniversity, TenarisEmployee education is a critical investment for employers in today’s knowledge economy. Beyond contributing to an employee’s capacity to grow within an organization, many employers feel that regular ongoing education…
As a working professional, how would you go about choosing an educational provider when the time came to upgrade your skills? I was recently asked about the main factors that…
Public-Public Partnerships: Challenges, Opportunities and Pitfalls
Henrik P. Minassians | Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning & Director of Regional and National Partnerships for the Public Sector, California State University, NorthridgeExpanding demand by globalized market forces for a highly skilled and educated workforce, coupled with flat or declining budgets at many higher education institutions, is probably the greatest systemic challenge…