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Converting the Worst of Times into the Best of Times: Market Research in a Time of Rebirth

By Aaron Edwards, Founder, Edwards Strategies and Dr. Joel English, Vice President for Operations, Centura College, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, and Tidewater Tech
A close look at how Centura College collaborated with Edwards Strategies to align its campuses and programs with the market to work towards sustainable success.

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Competition Among Superheroes: Qualitative Assessment of Schools Within a Multi-Campus Group

By Dr. Joel A. English, Vice President of Operations, Centura College, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Tidewater Tech
Dr. English shares how his school group designed and communicated the values, goals, assessment, timelines, and competition that leads his campuses to institutional success, and how this benchmarking structure supports their best campus directors in leaping tall buildings in single bounds.

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Ombudsmen can Resolve Issues Before Students Become Frustrated

Written by Barbara A. Schmitz from an interview by Jenny Faubert with Jim Klein, Ombudsman, Sullivan University
Sullivan University appointed Jim Klein to its first ombudsman position in 2012. The ombudsman is responsible for investigating and resolving issues and complaints that come to his or her attention informally from active or former students or others.

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Schools Share Their Strategies, Plans to Reopen After Pandemic

Written from interviews with career education leaders
Career Education Review talked to seven school leaders with various programs and facilities scattered throughout the nation to gain their perspectives on the reopening process and to share their suggestions on how to keep faculty, staff, students and others safe as schools move to again start on-campus instruction.

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Hire – Train – Monitor – Motivate

By David J. Waldron, Author, A Great Place to Learn & Earn
Hiring, training, monitoring, and motivating are necessary, in unison, to build and maintain a campus or company of distinction. This article is adapted from the book, “A Great Place to Learn & Earn: An Organizational Effectiveness Model for Career Sector Education’s Critical Role in Twenty-First Century Workforce Development.”

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Campus Impossible

By Jeff Akens, Divisional Director of Operations, Success Education Colleges
In the Travel Channel’s show “Hotel Impossible,” host Anthony Melchiorri helps inexperienced hotel owners save their struggling properties by improving in five key areas. In Campus Impossible, Jeff Akens will bring his 25 years of operational experience to show how career college campuses can improve by focusing on the same five areas.

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Alleviating Campus Issues…Before They Become Crisis

By Kristen Torres, Regional Director of Operations, Pima Medical Institute
If you’ve ever left your institution at night worried about the safety and well-being of your students, employees, and yourself, you are certainly not alone. This article discusses practical, tactical steps to prevent, deescalate, and alleviate situations before they require a crisis team, enabling you and your team to minimize distractions and focus on the success of your students.

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Emerging Competing Training Models: Opportunities and Challenges for Career Colleges

By Stanley A. Freeman and Sean T. Beller, Education Attorneys, Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC, Washington, D.C.
As career colleges innovate and expand their operations in the midst of market disruption, their strategic planning should include a focus on competing business models and the challenges and opportunities that they present. This article discusses some of the steps that colleges are taking to keep current in today’s postsecondary education world.

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