Reboot Higher Ed

*Higher Education Disruption Alert!*

Today's guest is Dawn Medley, Associate Vice President,Wayne State University.

Dawn is responsible for domestic and international undergraduate admissions, the campus “one-stop enrollment services shop”, customer relationship management and campaigns, and all Title IV financial aid and merit scholarships totaling over $330 million annually. Her areas of specialty are in communication life-cycle creation, program creation, financial aid leveraging, and geo-demographic analysis with predictive modeling. She has worked in various leadership and faculty positions focusing on student recruitment, retention, financial aid and marketing at large, small, private and public institutions.

Warrior Way Back is a process for students to earn their way back into Wayne State University. Warrior Way Back relieves past student balances of former Wayne State University students who did not graduate.There are almost 700,000 people in the Detroit area with some college, but no degree, according to Wayne State officials. Among those are more than 12,000 former WSU students. Kim Kozlowski, The Detroit News

Tune in to our conversation covering steps covering the "WHY" through program implementation.

Have a topic you would like to hear more about or suggestion for a guest? I'm always looking for new ideas covering topics that are important to you and your team! 

Support the show

Contact Me: [email protected]

Show Resources

Warrior Way Back Information Session

Facebook

Detroit News

Matt Bergman, PhD, Program Director/Professor in the College of Education and Human Development. Dr. Bergman’s research is focused on adult learner persistence, prior learning assessment, leadership, and degree completion programs. His work has appeared in refereed journals such as the Journal of Continuing Higher Education, Human Resource Development Review, Adult Learning, International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development, and his work highlighted in international media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR, and TIME Magazine.

In 2015, Matt Bergman and his colleagues won the E. F. Holton III Outstanding Article of the Year. His program was the recipient of the 2016 ACHE South’s Distinguished Program Award and the 2013 AAACE Malcolm Knowles Award for Adult Education Program of the Year. The program was also acknowledged as a 2014 National Program of Distinction in the American Public and Land Grant Universities’ MVP Awards for Campus Based Strategies for Student Success and the 2013 Innovation for Educational Attainment from the Gheens Foundation and 55,000 Degrees based upon local implementation of his research. Dr. Bergman was awarded the 2018 ACHE South Outstanding Faculty Award, the Metroversity Outstanding Faculty for Adult Learners in 2015, and has been a Faculty Favorite at UofL from 2012-2018. He is a Fellow for Complete College America that serves as a teacher, administrator, and ambassador of adult degree attainment both locally, and nationally. 

Have a topic you would like to hear more about or suggestion for a guest? I'm always looking for new ideas covering topics that are important to you and your team!  

Support the show

Contact Me: [email protected]

https://louisville.edu/education/departments/faculty/bergman

Let’s break down one Proposal within the White Paper Accreditation Reform

Proposal 3

Increase academic and career mobility for students by eliminating artificial

Boundaries between institutions due to the credential levels an institution

Offers or the agency that accredits the institution or its program.

Barriers

Regionally Accredited Institutions to accept transfer credits from nationally accredited institutions or enroll graduates of nationally accredited institutions in higher level credential programs.

In some cases, genuine differences among institutional learning objectives or pedagogy may limit the transferability of credits; however, it should never be the case that institutional elitism and historical hierarchies alone make it unnecessarily difficult for transfer students, mid-career professionals, and veterans to obtain a post-secondary credential.

Sources

https://nces.ed.gov/

https://www.chea.org/userfiles/uploads/fund_accred_20ques_02.pdf

U.S. Department of Education

https://www.nasfaa.org/uploads/documents/Accreditation_Reform.pdf

https://www.edsmart.org/regional-vs-national-accreditation/

Bob Johnson, who has a wealth of knowledge regarding adult learners is featured on the Show today interviewing Mary Laphen, who is the Tennessee Reconnect Community Network Director at Tennessee Higher Education Commission. They will be discussing Tennessee Reconnect which is under the umbrella of the Drive to 55.

What’s the Drive to 55?

Governor Haslam challenged the state of Tennessee with a critical new mission: the Drive to 55 – the Drive to get 55 percent of Tennesseans equipped with a college degree or certificate by the year 2025. Tennessee Reconnect is one major initiative of the Drive to 55, which is focused on helping adults 25 and older enter post-secondary education so that they may gain new skills, advance in the workplace, and fulfill lifelong dreams of completing a degree or credential.

The need is in the data. The How is in the execution. The Why is in the show today.Thanks for joining us here on Reboot Higher Ed. Don't forget to leave me a show review...Thanks!

Show Resources

Graduate Network Model

Graduate Network Learn X

Tennessee Reconnect Community Navigators

Reconnect at a TCAT

Reconnect Grant is a last dollar scholarship, so it funds the remaining tuition after the federal government, and any other eligible state programs chip in. The result for qualifying students is the same: Tuition-free education at TCAT.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

"It's just always been this way" - Decentralized

The landscape of Graduate Enrollment has changed. Many Universities have been tasked with the development of new graduate programs. Development of new opportunities in your graduate programs can be negated by oversight of your current operations model.

Let's talk about phase one to set your Graduate Programs up for success in the competitive market.

Have a topic you would like to hear more about or suggestion for a guest? I'm always looking for new ideas covering topics that are important to you and your team!

Contact Me: [email protected]

The Lumina Foundation has awarded more than $2.5 million in grants to six states supporting adults who want to earn college degrees, certificates, and other quality credentials beyond a high school diploma.

Who does it serve in Kentucky? What are the actives supported by the Grant?

What does that mean for others?

Let's discuss Barriers and Solutions (Something new

We have discussed the 2year to 4 year transition in previous episodes. Today, hear from Selena Sanchez, Assistant Director of Advising for Transfer Students at Jefferson Community & Technical College (JCTC).

• Current trends in community college

Jefferson Community and Technical College is a public community college in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and the largest college in that system. JCTC was formed on July 1, 2005 by the consolidation of Jefferson Community College and Jefferson Technical College.

Learn more about Jefferson Community & Technical College

Meet Joi Martin, a community leader from Degrees Work.

Degrees Work has the goal of helping 15,000 working adults in Greater Louisville complete college degrees by 2020.

Degrees Work helps to ease the process for returning to school and completing a degree by providing important resources about:

• College Knowledge: How to apply, transfer credits, secure financial aid 

Take me to the Degrees Work Website

Starting his career as an admissions representative gave Brian experience on the front lines of higher ed enrollment and recruiting. He learned first-hand the challenges that recruiters face, and he recognized a need for equipping admissions professionals with proper training and coaching.

Brian created the Admissions Advantage to provide higher education admissions professionals with a practical, repeatable process that delivers consistent results.

Additionally, Brian manages the Brian Willett Group and is a respected author of leadership-themed topics. Brian has published over 500 articles and posts, and has been featured on sites such as lifehack.org and Career Education Review.

 Brian is also a co-host of The Higher Ed Parthenon Show

http://www.reboothighered.com/

Listen in on a solution driven conversation with David Scobey centered on barriers that many in the underserved population of higher education are facing and addressing. Much of his recent research centers on nontraditional undergraduates—the large majority of U.S. college students—and their importance to the future of higher education.

David Scobey has a Ph.D. from the Program in American Studies at Yale University, a Diploma in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in English Literature (summa cum laude) from Yale University.

David's Website

Published Article

"The Other Student Debt Crisis," Inside Higher Ed (online, December 4, 2017) URL

Connect with me on Twiiter

Connect with me on LinkedIn