• Infographic Friday

    Updated: 2012-11-30 11:00:00
    Courtesy of: Schools.com

  • Still time

    Updated: 2012-11-29 13:31:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , November 29, 2012 Still time ACHE South Conference Destin , Florida April 21-24, 2013 Partnering to Serve : Opportunities for All ACHE South has extended the deadline for the Call for Proposals to Monday , nbsp December 3, 2012. Don't miss this great opportunity to showcase your institution's programs and procedures to your colleagues . Submit Proposals by e-mail to dlavit murraystate.edu Visit uwf.edu ache proposals for more . information Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook : Reactions No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom

  • Nominate a continuing educator for this leadership award

    Updated: 2012-11-29 11:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , November 29, 2012 Nominate a continuing educator for this leadership award This comes from the Chair Academy's 22nd International Leadership Conference , held in Phoenix , . Arizona The Idahlynn Karre Exemplary Leadership Award Exemplary Leader Guidelines As part of our commitment to recognize exemplary organizational leadership , the Chair Academy is soliciting the names of exceptional post-secondary leaders and or leadership teams . We recognize that one of the highest levels of recognition that a person can receive is to be honored by colleagues . The Chair Academy would like to team up with you and your college

  • Continuing educators have known this

    Updated: 2012-11-28 11:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , November 28, 2012 Continuing educators have known this For quite some time . Traditional students have just about disappeared . From The Chronicle of Higher . Education The New Traditional on Campuses And yet on another level , as a longtime professor and sometime administrator at community colleges , I am increasingly aware that the nostalgic film playing in my head , as I walk those elite four-year campuses , is more akin to an old episode of Leave It to Beaver than to contemporary reality . My experiences and those of the students I encounter at elite campuses no longer resemble the common experience of many

  • ACHE award winners

    Updated: 2012-11-27 11:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , November 27, 2012 ACHE award winners The following individuals and programs received awards at the recent Association for Continuing Higher Education Annual Conference and : Meeting INDIVIDUAL AWARDS Leadership John G . LaBrie Special Recognition Virginia Moxley OUTSTANDING COMMUNICATION AWARDS Crystal Marketing Award Northeastern State University College of Professional Studies Northeastern University Spring 2012 . Graduation Marlowe Froke Award Tim Sullivan and Emily Richardson Living the Plan : Strategic Planning Aligned with Practice and . Assessment PROGRAM AWARDS Distinguished Program Award Credit Northern

  • Maybe you think you're smarter than your boss

    Updated: 2012-11-26 11:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , November 26, 2012 Maybe you think you're smarter than your boss Well , you might be . But there may be other reasons why you're not the boss , and Alison Green aka Ask a Manager lists ten of them Here are the first two . From usnews.com 10 Reasons You're Not the Boss 1. You don't look the part . It might seem superficial and unfair , but appearances really do count . You might get away with pushing your office's dress code to the limit , but it's probably impacting the way people perceive you and what opportunities you're offered . nbsp 2. You're terrible at time management . Managers need to keep track not only of

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Updated: 2012-11-22 11:00:00
    I prefer Snowballs.

  • Infographic Friday

    Updated: 2012-11-22 00:00:00
    Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , November 22, 2012 by beckonmedia Learn about data visualization software Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook : Reactions No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm currently the Secretary Treasurer for the Tennessee Alliance for Continuing Higher Education TACHE and I'm a past president of both the Association for Continuing Higher Education ACHE and TACHE . In the real world , I work in university continuing education administration . The views expressed here are my own and not the views of any college ,

  • Credit for MOOC's?

    Updated: 2012-11-21 11:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , November 21, 2012 Credit for MOOC's Just a matter of time . But I still don't understand the business model behind them . From The Chronicle of Higher . Education MOOC's Take a Major Step Toward College Credit The American Council on Education has agreed to review a handful of free online courses offered by elite universities and may recommend that other colleges grant credit for them . nbsp The move could lead to a world in which many students graduate from traditional colleges faster by taking self-guided courses on the side , taught free by professors from Stanford University , the University of Michigan at Ann

  • Associate degree salaries

    Updated: 2012-11-20 11:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , November 20, 2012 Associate degree salaries Community colleges are hot right now . Among four-year degree holders , engineers earn the most and psychology majors the least . From CBS News What 2-year college degrees pay best The annual report shows much stronger interest among employers in graduates with associate degrees New grads with two-year degrees are earning an average salary of 34,960, and some earn significantly more . Computer science majors with two-year degrees earned 39,408, while nursing grads earned almost the same salary 36,927 as the typical bachelor-degree . recipient Posted by Rick Osborn Email

  • Checking up on the Chancellor's description

    Updated: 2012-11-19 11:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , November 19, 2012 Checking up on the Chancellor's description Of Tennessee's higher education funding flip-flop . Yes , it happened . When I started in Tennessee , we were a cheap tuition state where students paid 30 of the cost of tuition . Now we're a relatively high tuition state with students paying 67 of the cost . PolitiFact Tennessee confirms that history . below Official says students , not state , paying most of college cost But when John Morgan , chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents , told a U.S . Senate committee that Tennessee students now pay 67 percent of the costs of their educations at the

  • Infographic Friday

    Updated: 2012-11-16 11:00:00
    Source:FindOnlineEducation.com

  • Northeastern University opens a branch campus in the northwest

    Updated: 2012-11-15 11:30:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , November 15, 2012 Northeastern University opens a branch campus in the northwest And I don't mean northwest . Massachusetts The campus hopes to partner with Amazon , but it's hard to imagine that local universities chose to ignore that opportunity . From The New York . Times Northeastern University Plans Seattle Campus With name tags clipped on and PowerPoint at the ready , officials from Northeastern University invited prospective students in one night last week for a peek at a new extension campus , 2,500 miles from the school’s home in Boston and about as far northwest as you can get in the lower 48 without swim

  • Online adult education flat-lining?

    Updated: 2012-11-14 11:30:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , November 14, 2012 Online adult education flat-lining It would appear that most adults prefer to learn in a more traditional . environment This may be news and perhaps bad news at that to only the for-profits . I think the rest of us are not surprised . nbsp Eduventures is a sponsor for next week's Association for Continuing Higher Education's Annual Conference so maybe they will have something to say about this study there . From Inside Higher Education Adult students' interest in online education is flat , study finds The market for online higher education aimed at adults may be reaching maturity , according to a

  • More education means longer lives

    Updated: 2012-11-13 17:28:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , November 13, 2012 More education means longer lives White women without high school diplomas declined the most , followed by white men without high school diplomas . nbsp From The New York . Times Life Expectancy for Less Educated Whites in U.S . Is Shrinking For generations of Americans , it was a given that children would live longer than their parents . But there is now mounting evidence that this enduring trend has reversed itself for the country’s least-educated whites , an increasingly troubled group whose life expectancy has fallen by four years since 1990. Researchers have long documented that the most

  • ACHE starts today

    Updated: 2012-11-12 00:30:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , November 12, 2012 ACHE starts today Here I am at the ACHE Annual Conference and Meeting in Austin . I am working with technology for the conference , which means you can expect a return to chalk and blackboards if we're not careful . Hey , I think we depend way too much on PowerPoint anyway Fortunately , I have some capable help . That's kind of the story of my career . Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook : Reactions No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm currently the Secretary Treasurer for the

  • A continuing educator is leading ETSU's QEP team

    Updated: 2012-11-12 00:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , November 12, 2012 A continuing educator is leading ETSU's QEP team A five-year initiative at East Tennessee State University aims to get students in top form” when it comes to information . fluency This initiative , called INtopFORM , 8221 will begin in fall 2013 and will focus on teaching students how to seek , evaluate and use sources of information when resolving questions and addressing . problems Information fluency is an important critical thinking skill and one that is especially vital during this information age , 8221 said Dr . Amy Johnson , assistant dean of the ETSU School of Continuing Studies . With

  • Infographic Friday. Sort of.

    Updated: 2012-11-09 11:00:00

  • Christy Buckles presents on social media at TACHE

    Updated: 2012-11-08 21:22:00

  • TACHE opens

    Updated: 2012-11-08 13:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , November 8, 2012 TACHE opens With all the pre-conference activities successfully concluded , the 44th Annual Tennessee Alliance for Continuing Higher Education opens today in . Nashville Looks like a good turnout . Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook : Reactions No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm currently the Secretary Treasurer for the Tennessee Alliance for Continuing Higher Education TACHE and I'm a past president of both the Association for Continuing Higher Education ACHE and TACHE . In the

  • TACHE opens

    Updated: 2012-11-08 11:30:00
    Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , November 8, 2012 This year Association for Continuing Higher Education is broadening its audience and bringing a virtual component to the ACHE 2012 Annual Conference Meeting on November 12-14 in Austin , . Texas By utilizing the Mediasite webcasting platform , an online attendee pass will be available for the first time , giving attendees the option to view live streams of conference sessions from their desktops or mobile devices . They can even pose questions to the speaker by clicking the Ask button on the Mediasite player Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook : Reactions No :

  • TACHE keynoter, Joe Turner does card tricks in the Hospitality Room

    Updated: 2012-11-08 01:18:00

  • TACHE Registration

    Updated: 2012-11-08 00:53:00

  • Continuing education values

    Updated: 2012-11-07 13:00:00
    : Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , November 7, 2012 Continuing education values In preparation for a day-long visit from Senior Staff , our planning team took a look at what we value in the School of Continuing Studies and Academic Outreach . I imagine that these values are pretty universal in our field , and I would also imagine that most continuing educators strive to develop a culture within their organization that embodies them . Anyway , here they are . We may have missed some so please make any suggestions and improvements in the comments . section Student : service putting students first : Teamwork working together to accomplish university

  • Employment surges for community college grads-USA Today

    Updated: 2012-10-19 23:21:15
    These days, there may be something more valuable to job seekers than a four-year college degree: a two-year college degree. Employment for Americans with an associate’s degree or some college has increased by 578,000 the past six months to 35.2 million, while payrolls for those with at least a bachelor’s are up by just 314,000 [...]

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