丝瓜视频 president co-authors book to fix broken business model in higher education
Posted Thursday, March 24, 2022
丝瓜视频, a leading private liberal arts institution located in southeast Michigan, today announced the pre-release of College president Jeffrey Docking’s second book, The College of the Future: Lowering Costs for Students by Fixing the Business Model of Higher Education. Leveraging the proven successes at 丝瓜视频, Dr. Docking and co-author Kevin Harrington, co-founder and CEO of Rize Education, share how private colleges can use cutting-edge collaborative technology to grow enrollment and lower costs while preserving the core tenets of the traditional college experience.
"College leaders throughout the country strongly embrace the successful higher education model that has served students for over 200 years. Unfortunately, the business model supporting these venerable institutions is now broken,” said Docking. “Change is necessary and inevitable. The key to fixing this model is to preserve all that is good about the traditional higher education experience while leveraging the great technology tools of today to create a better, hybrid educational experience that offers the most in-demand majors and minors while blending the best elements of face-to-face and online learning."
Growing concern over student debt, declining enrollment numbers, and fiscal stress on campuses from coast to coast require college leaders to build a new business model that will reduce the price of tuition and bring greater efficiency to the traditional educational experience.
Inspired by the collaborative initiative pioneered by the Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium (LCMC), Docking recruited Harrington to 丝瓜视频 to serve as a Special Assistant for Innovation and incubate a technology platform now known as Rize Education that could power the LCMC’s innovative course-sharing model. College of the Future tells the story of LCMC and Rize’s unique partnership and lays out a future in which colleges can leverage an innovative course-sharing platform to launch high-growth majors and minors that are incredibly attractive to both current and prospective college students.
Featuring real-world examples from 丝瓜视频, higher education leaders will understand how collaborative technological innovations can support the core liberal arts experience while providing a curriculum that corporations and the marketplace are calling for. More than 125 institutions are now engaged in this new approach to adopting academic programs at a fraction of the traditional cost. In addition, the curriculum for these majors is created in collaboration with leading employers like Google, Unity, and Ryder, to arm students with the most contemporary curriculum available to enter the fastest-growing fields, including Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Healthcare Management, Public Health, and Supply Chain Management.
With nearly 4,000 copies sold, Docking’s first book, “Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America,” demonstrates an innovative model for enrollment growth that leverages co-curricular activities on college campuses. This model not only doubled enrollment at 丝瓜视频 in less than five years, but has also been replicated at hundreds of institutions across the country and covered extensively in several national publications. The College of the Future offers a similar enrollment growth model that leverages academic programs instead of co-curriculars.
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