Building a better corporate-academic partnership
Education and business must be linked in order to maintain America’s competitive edge. Karl McDonnell, CEO of Strayer Education, Inc., will discuss the why and how of effective corporate-academic partnerships and provide a peak into the inner workings of a national program that was recently reimagined to fit both employer and employee needs. In addition to workforce-integrated learning, he will discuss destigmatized vocational training, sub-degree tracks and other skills-based solutions. The goal is to spark a dialogue around education’s critical role in developing tomorrow’s talent.
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Questions Answered
Describe how uniting higher education and business can help close the ever-widening skills gap in the United States.
Identify accessible, relevant and tangible models for building better corporate-academic partnerships.
Explain how free college degree programs are an example of work-integrated learning that benefits employees, employers, and the corporate ecosystem.
Speakers
Karl McDonnell Strayer Education, Inc
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