Join us for a panel discussion on the future of higher education.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Higher education is under attack from several fronts today. Business leaders want graduates with more relevant skill sets. Parents howl at the rising costs in a stagnant economy. Students resent graduating full of promise only to find themselves moving back home while they job search. Higher education leaders fire back that high schools are doing a poorer job than ever preparing students to do college-level work and that building expensive recreation centers and refurbishing dormitories is a requirement to remain competitive with other campuses. Meanwhile, private ventures offering online learning with accredited degrees and/or certifications without the campus overhead market more vigorously and online course materials appear with greater depth, polish, sophistication, and followings each week for no charge.
This panel discussion explores solutions and likely scenarios 10 to 30 years out based on informed thinking, powerful trends, thoughtful analysis, and decided bias for what is anticipated to be a probable or preferable future for Higher Education. We will not seek consensus, but rather to surface the underlying reasons for forecasts and to clearly illuminate the implications of the business model, demographic, sociological, and technological directions.
Join us for this teleseminar panel discussion by registering now.
The guest expert panelists for this teleseminar are:
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| Andrew Schrage, co-owner of Money Crashers Personal Finance, provides essential education across a wide variety of topics and information on how to reduce and avoid student loan debt as the price of education continues to rise in a floundering economy. |
Art Shostak, PhD, author and Professor Emeritus, Drexel University, is a longtime member of the World Future Society who has been a futurist consultant for Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto, Proctor & Gamble, various levels of Federal, state, and local government, and major labor unions. |
Cathy Curran, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is a Fulbright Scholar whose research focuses on the Role and Purpose of Higher Education, the Impact of Public Policy on Higher Education, and other topics.
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Greg O'Brien is CEO of The College Bound Network, a leading provider of interactive, recruitment marketing services to higher education. |
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Jack Maguire, PhD, is Chariman and Founder of Maguire Associates, a leading research-based consulting firm serving the education industry. He introduced market research to the field of admissions when he became the Dean of Admissions at Boston College in the early 1970s.
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Kate Tulenko, PhD, is a globally recognized expert in the field of health labor markets and health workforce education. She is a leading thinker on strategies for health professional schools to cost-effectively train larger numbers of qualified, relevant health workers. |
Mark Kantrowitz is a bestselling author and nationally recognized expert on student financial aid and paying for college. He is the founder and publisher of FinAid.org and publisher of Fastweb.com, the most popular and complete free scholarship matching site.
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Mark Valenti, CTS, is President and CEO of The Sextant Group, Inc. His particular area of expertise is designing cutting-edge learning spaces and learning environments of the future. |
Expert Panel Facilitator and Host
 The panel discussion will be led by Bill Ringle, a nationally known business growth strategist and president of the World Future Society of Greater Philadelphia. Bill Ringle works with CEOs and their direct reports to accelerate business growth through specialized coaching and mentoring programs. His client roster includes well-known organizations such as DuPont, General Electric, Apple Inc, and the Wharton School, as well as many outstanding, yet lesser-known organizations from many diverse industries. His work has taken him across the United States and Canada, and to Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. A vice president of development says, “I wholeheartedly endorse Bill Ringle to those organizations or individuals who seek a strategic thinker, a persuasive speaker, and a masterful facilitator.”
Bill is author of TechEdge: Using Computers to Present and Persuade and a contributing author to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Customer Service and The LAN Times Guide to Telephony. His latest book, Click and Grow Rich, is under development.
He is a frequent radio and television commentator on technology trends in business, and has written over 420 articles for publication in magazines, newspapers, corporate newsletters, and web sites. His audio magazine of interviews, "My Quest for the Best" is listened to by business leaders globally.
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