Corporate Education
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…
Seven Key Ingredients of Successful Contract Training
Alex Read | Program Development Strategist in the College of Continuing Education, Sacramento State UniversityYour 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…
Injecting Creativity and Breaking Down Siloes: How Universities Can Grow their Share of the Corporate Learning Market
Catherine Jones | Associate Vice President of Workforce Development, McHenry County CollegeThe 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 | Head of Innovation, FT | IE Corporate Learning AllianceThe 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…
Replacing the Third Leg: Corporate Partnerships and Long-Term Community College Success
Ian Roark | Vice President of Workforce Development, Pima Community CollegeCommunity 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.…