Noodle Partners teams with for-profit college operator to launch tuition benefit platform – Education Dive
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Dive Brief:
- Noodle Partners, a prominent online program manager, is teaming up with the parent company of two for-profit universities to create a platform for employers to administer tuition assistance benefits.
- WorkforceEdge will allow employees to enroll in online undergraduate and graduate programs offered by participating colleges within Noodle Partners’ network — including Boston College, the University of Michigan, and Harvard and Howard universities — as well as through Strategic Education’s two for-profit universities, Capella and Strayer.
- The move follows mounting interest from employers to use tuition benefits to retain workers and grow their talent pipelines, though it’s unclear how the pandemic will impact those trends.
Dive Insight:
WorkforceEdge intends to make it easier for employers to offer tuition benefits to their workers and track their educational progress.
In turn, Noodle Partners’ network of colleges stands to gain a new pipeline of students. “(If) you’re a university running an online program, you normally have some recruitment expense,” said John Katzman, Noodle’s CEO and founder. “Through this channel, we are lowering the recruitment expense and giving the money back to the students.”
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