Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

“With the economy shifting … we need workforce education training faster and better,” said James Fong, chief research officer at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). Even if they understood their options, they worry that such credentials may be costly to obtain.

Marketing and Communication Services 119

Marketing and Communication Services Manufacturing Industry Management 119

University Business

JUNE 28, 2024

He also ushered in record levels of student and faculty diversity, research expenditures, first-year student enrollment and retention rates as the dean of the engineering department. As an administrator, the first-time president helped create new degree and continuing education programs, as well as forged corporate partnerships.

Community College 52

Community College Professional Development Student Affairs Engineering 52

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

Budget and Finance Management 52

Budget and Finance Management Marketing and Communication Services Enrollment Management Higher Education 52

Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I was an engineer and during grand designs, these are some of the things that I accomplished in grand designs. So like a philosophy professor could look at their class and say, these are mostly engineering students taking this as like a gen net, you know, as part of their core. You know, I don’t have a ton of experience.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

Marketing and Communication Services Student Affairs Study Abroad Research 52

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When : Mar 21-23, 2023 Where : Las Vegas, Nevada Website : [link] UPCEA Annual Conference This gathering, hosted by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), focuses on helping higher ed professionals reconnect and share with one another.

Higher Education 40

Higher Education Education Enrollment Management Management 40

SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Baldwin, J, Raven, N and Weber-Jones, R (2020) ‘Access ‘Cinderellas’: further education colleges as engines of transformational change’, in Broadhead, S, Butcher, J, Davison, E,, Fowle, W, Hill, M, Martin, L, Mckendry, S, Norton, F, Raven, N, Sanderson, B, and Wynn Williams, S (eds) Delivering the Public Good of Higher Education: Widening Participation, (..)

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Research Education Finance 52

Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

And when we were working with the education design lab during the pandemic on developing our micro pathways regimen as a part of what they call the community college growth engine fund. Learn from organizations such as the Higher Learning Commission, or such as Community College Growth Engine Fund, or New America.

Veteran and Military Services 52

Veteran and Military Services Development and Fund Raising Community College Faculty 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2023

Some schools have, like Arizona State with its vertical research track, vertical teaching track, and continuing education lifelong learning track. Alumni who want to reenroll at their alma mater for ongoing education should not have to go through another 30-step registration process. That’s how I look at loyalty.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

Marketing and Communication Services Computers and Informational Technology Higher Education Enrollment Management 52

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CPAs need to be knowledgeable about technology topics for personal and professional development, especially considering that Congress introduced a bill to add accounting to the Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) education category. I was certainly one of them.

Financial Aid 52

Financial Aid Finance Education Professional Services 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 9, 2023

When you take a look at MIT, it’s engineering. Over the course of the last 10 years, I’ve worked with a number of developers, project managers, accountants, and people in any number of roles and fields who, much like me, are no longer using their undergraduate or graduate-level degrees. Does that make sense? It’s new knowledge.

Industry 52

Industry Manufacturing Medical Consulting 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Camille has 25 years of experience in higher ed, continuing education, career development, and academic department management, including president of the Connecticut Career Counseling and Development Association. It’s very different from other job search engines.

For-Profit Universities 59

For-Profit Universities Marketing and Communication Services Professional Development Industry 59

eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

Will the continuous education approach be taken up more broadly by a wider range of industries? And a small number of industries, some of which (like allied healthcare) have been doing stackable micro-credentials for decades before that term was invented. Again, we have lots of surveys. I’ve not looked closely at the latest data.

Industry 84

Industry Development and Fund Raising Computers and Informational Technology Faculty 84

University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Education for a Lifetime How one university turned a struggling enterprise into a $6 million lifelong learning powerhouse A decade ago, the University of South Florida’s Continuing Education program was by all accounts a financial burden. Then part of USF’s Innovative Education division, the unit was losing $60,000 a year.

Finance 52

Finance Continuing Education Engineering Industry 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 1, 2025

We used Credential Engine data, which is the largest national registry on credentials, and then some publicly available education, higher education data from IPEDs to extract information about program cost, location, and indirect costs. Let’s say you have a main campus and then you have a continuing education campus.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

Marketing and Communication Services Financial Aid Research Higher Education 52

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

To raise revenue, campuses became more entrepreneurial, expanding continuing education, offering summer programs, renting campus space, and more. Even small colleges took on the responsibilities of a small city for housing, transportation, health care, and sports.

Federal Government 116

Federal Government Libraries Higher Education Admissions 116