The Financial Planning Made Simple (FPMS) was created by the Imagine America Foundation to help students protect their future.  FPMS is an online-based tool to help career college students make responsible financial decisions. It consists of an 18 minute animated, interactive video with the student’s choice of two avatars to walk them through basic budgeting, borrowing and repayment process.

FPMS includes a downloadable student financial planning calculator that students can use to help them create a budget and determine the amount of loan they can afford, along with what the best post-graduation repayment plan is for them.

Student retention is key to private sector education institutions, and student engagement is a critical component of student retention.

What are the challenges associated with student retention and engagement and what best practices can be employed to mitigate those challenges?

Student retention is key to private sector education institutions, and student engagement is a critical component of student retention.

What are the challenges associated with student retention and engagement and what best practices can be employed to mitigate those challenges?

In this age of Gainful Employment and enhanced government and regulatory scrutiny, academics will become more important than ever as career schools and colleges focus on improved outcomes as a means to demonstrate their worth and viability as critical providers of trained workers for the American economy. It will be necessary for academic deans to assume key leadership positions in their institutions to lead quality initiatives to improve student persistence, graduation and subsequent placement.

Faculty are critical to the success of students.  Therefore, creating processes that ensure effective faculty selection, retention and development is critical.

To effectively maximize faculty performance, both programs and processes need to be in place to ensure that instructors are gaining, applying and, in effect, transferring the knowledge and skills acquired from their developmental activities to the student learning environment. Can institutions utilize performance-based activities and measurements as a basis for faculty development?

To effectively maximize faculty performance, both programs and processes need to be in place to ensure that instructors are gaining, applying and, in effect, transferring the knowledge and skills acquired from their developmental activities to the student learning environment. Can institutions utilize performance-based activities and measurements as a basis for faculty development?

American Enterprise Institute

Student Value Proposition Discussion

For-Profit Post-Secondary Value Proposition

Impact of Proposed Gainful Employment Regulation

There is no general accepted definition or measure of quality in higher education. However everyone can practice quality improvement by selecting the right measures and putting actions in place to improve against those measures.

Outcomes assessment is one of the ways in which we evaluate quality of education. Specifically we assess performance relative to a goal or an objective.