By Sharon H. Bob, Ph.D., Higher Education Specialist, Powers Pyles Sutter and Verville, PC
The following Washington career college news brief is a summary of important higher education news originating from Washington D.C.
By Suzanne Morrison-Williams, EdD, Vice President, Academic Affairs, City College
One of the things that is difficult in any organization is change management. How it happens and how successful it is, remains up to the leaders.
Written from an interview with Joel A. English, Executive Vice President and Kenneth Cooper Alexander, Chancellor, Centura College, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Tidewater Tech
Centura College has made a commitment to add renewable energy programs to its offerings, and plans to take renewable energy to the next level in career and technical education. The timing is certainly right with its newest program, wind turbine maintenance, as nearly 400 wind turbines are built or under construction in the Mid-Atlantic region.
By Mireidy Fernandez, PsyD, Faculty, Florida National University, and Dr. Jose A. Perez, Psychology Program Director, Florida National University
Dr. Fernandez and Dr. Perez discuss how FNU efficiently transitioned its students to online or remote learning instructional method paradigms while maintaining high-performance standards and optimizing the student learning experience while mitigating the pandemic’s impact.
The Future of Marketing Education By Kristopher T. Loretz, President, Southeastern College
Over the vast course of educational history, recruitment practices have evolved. Social media, mobile media and other forms of online and multimedia marketing are and will forever be changing the recruitment landscape for all types of educational organizations. Loretz’s research concluded the future of marketing cannot be a “cookie-cutter” formula.
By John King, Ed.D.
The coronavirus presented the world with a unique set of problems that we had never seen or experienced at this level. The world, and in particular higher education, will be different coming out of this pandemic and as an academic leader you and your team must be ready to deal with and adjust to it. Failure to do so is not an option.