Partnerships for Progress: Fueling Innovation in Higher Ed

In this episode, we sit down with Marjorie Hass, President of the Council of Independent Colleges as we discuss challenges facing the 650+ institutions supported by CIC and how those challenges have evolved. Listen in as we share how the digital transformation is bolstering innovative solutions to create collaborative, sustainable paths forward.

In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Collins, President of Ad Astra, to talk about new data highlighting trends in retention and completion impacting higher education. Listen in as we discuss real-time, data-driven methods to help colleges and universities collaborate to address critical challenges, create program financial sustainability, and get students to the finish line in today’s learning ecosystem.

In this episode, we sit down with Earl Buford, President of the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL), to talk about how more than 9.1 million adult learners attend the country’s 4,000 colleges and universities, comprising almost 49% of total enrollment. Listen in as we discuss how institutions can create opportunities to help the workforce population who are depending on upskilling and reskilling opportunities to achieve equitable economic mobility. Through innovation and collaboration, educators, trainers, employers, industry groups, and policy makers can align in support of adult learners and workers.

In this episode, we sit down with Eugene So, Managing Director of Lifelong Learning at Jobs for the Future to talk about how higher education is innovating to meet the needs of learners along the education-career continuum. Listen in as we discuss the shortcomings of the current higher education model, emerging conversations around a skills-first philosophy, and how learners as well as learning providers can navigate this change to be future-ready.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Wally Boston, President Emeritus of the American Public University System, to discuss the increasingly digitally connected ecosystem within higher education. Listen in as we discuss the need for interoperability, technology and data science, and well-defined learning outcomes across the industry for a systematic approach to parse equivalencies that better serve the needs of the modern-day learner while keeping institutions thriving through disruption.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Brian Mitchell, former president of Bucknell University and Washington & Jefferson College and founding principal of Academic Innovators to talk about how academic leaders can adapt to the challenges facing higher education today. Listen in as we discuss the existential crisis facing American higher education, the necessary shift in engagement needed across institutional leadership, and how collaboration and partnerships can play an important role in facing these challenges.

In this episode, we sit down with Deb Adair, Executive Director & CEO of Quality Matters, to talk about how teaching and learning is evolving in an increasingly digitally connected world. Listen in as we discuss trends from the 2023 CHLOE report, the various modalities being sought by learners, and potential tactics institutions can implement to ensure quality in online education.

In this episode, we sit down with Louis Soares, Chief Learning & Innovation Officer at the American Council on Education, as we discuss how Interdependence forms the foundation of the innovation required to move the needle for many postsecondary institutions as they seek sustainable business models in this new environment of shrinking enrollments. Listen in as we talk about how innovation doesn’t always mean a complete transformation that takes more time and money than most institutions possess. It can mean leveraging alternative providers in the postsecondary learning ecosystem with consideration toward interdependently generated quality and affordability.