3 Reasons Your Higher Ed Institution Needs a Teach-Out Plan
Much like reviewing your will before having a baby, or hanging lifeboats on the side of a luxurious ocean liner before its inaugural voyage, dealing with a teach-out plan confirms our worst fears to us—that something can and might go wrong. But, as anyone who’s ever needed a lifeboat will tell you, just because it’s uncomfortable doesn’t mean you should skip it.
Cookie Lessons for Higher Education
Much like everything else, the Oreo cookie has had to reinvent itself over the years to continue its appeal to the masses in an ever-changing marketplace. Being “America’s Best Loved Cookie” just isn’t good enough. Now it’s higher education’s turn to learn the Oreo lessons.
Demystifying Goals, KPIs, and Benchmarks
We see a lot of institutions struggle with differentiating between their goals, their KPIs (key performance indicators), and their benchmarks (achievement measures). This confusion is understandable because, although we all intuitively use and blend these concepts in our daily lives, we are rarely forced to separate, categorize, and define them by their specific purposes.
Why General Education Credits Matter
When a society is built on a population with a well-rounded education, everybody wins. We all win when choices are being made by people who understand how to interpret data; express complex ideas effectively; think critically and contextually; and create logical, actionable plans. You owe it to your fellow citizens to be one of those people.
Are you there, 2023? It’s us, EduCred Services
A New Year provides a new opportunity for reflection, intention, and perspective. As we launch into 2023 full of optimism (albeit cautious optimism, at times), we wanted to write a collaborative post where we can each share our lessons-learned and hopes for the new year.
What’s Most Important?
A new year gives us a chance to ask ourselves: what’s most important? Do we want to be “right” or do we want to grow?