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According to the Sloan Consortium's recent annual report, online learning is continuing to grow at a significant rate.  In fact more than 1 in 4 college students are enrolled in online courses.

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In twenty years of experience in launching these programs with partnering institutions I have been able to identify the perfect storm that creates a false start or a no start situation or even a shut down of a previously successful program.



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The health care industry is the largest industry in the U.S. today.  Employment of medical and health services managers is expected to grow 16 percent to 2018, faster than the average for all occupations. The health care industry will continue to expand and diversify, requiring managers to help ensure smooth business operations and high quality care.

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Federal regulations are in the works that will mandate more accountability for Financial Aid.  Sounds good at first, but may be a very scary thing.  The accountability is on the outcome, not the input.  If federal regulations can mandate which schools can get Financial Aid for students based on the rate of pay for the jobs those students get upon graduation....what is next? 

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There is much written today about value propositions.  The concept has been around for some time within the corporate vocabulary and is now moving into the halls of higher education administration.  The interesting thing about it to me is that no matter how good your value proposition might be, no one will speak with you unless you first listen to the point of pain.

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Today in the Omaha World-Herald the announcement was made that the 125-year old Lutheran Dana College has been sold to a group of investors.  When questioned about the financial troubles that led to this, the answer was simple.  The college couldn't keep doing things the old way.

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Higher education, like so many other business sectors, seems to be getting myopic about lead generation.  The contrarian in me wants to stand on a stump and yell out, "It's not about lead generation.... it is about enrollment conversion and persistence."

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Institutional positioning as the more attractive alternative to the for-profit colleges has become a challenge for many public and small non-profit colleges.  For-profit colleges now represent about 7% of the nation's roughly 19 million students who enroll at degree granting institutions each fall. 

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The glacial pace of higher education may be its undoing.  Two days ago I had a discussion with another higher education service provider who was pulling up stakes in the higher education market.  His reason: "I can't continue with the glacier pace of higher education decision-making."

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