Top StoriesAugusoft & LERN Offer Special 2011 PromotionAugusoft and LERN have teamed up to provide a special promotion for lifelong learning programs that purchase Lumens PRO or higher before June 30, 2011. (continue) NACCE Panel Discussion on Business Planning for Entrepreneurs Available for Limited TimeAugusoft CEO Cem Erdem was part of a panel discussion along with Dave Anderson of Famous Dave’s BBQ and André Taylor of Insight Worldwide at the recently held NACCE 2010 conference on how the business plan process taught in community colleges can be made more meaningful to new entrepreneurs. Augusoft Creates Credit Card Payment Gateway to West Virginia State Treasurer's OfficeAugusoft announced the release of a credit card payment gateway to connect Augusoft Lumens® to the West Virginia State Treasury Office (WVSTO) for West Virginia University Extended Learning and Pierpont Community & Technical College. This gateway fulfills a requirement by the State of West Virginia for all universities and colleges to provide an electronic payment system for students to use when self-registering for courses online. (continue) Join LERN in Chicago April 7-8 for its Contract Training ConferenceGrow with help from the industry's top experts The LERN Contract Training Conference is designed to give you the strategies, techniques, and tips you need to lead your contract training unit into the second decade of the 21st century. The information will be practical and proven, and you can implement what you learn immediately. Only LERN tracks the best practices of winning contract training units, and now you have access to contract training best practices, and ONLY contract training best practices at one conference! Boomers are the Latest Cash CropBy Erica Alini When David Prosser, 64, graduated from Ryerson University in June of last year, it was his third time there in a cap-and-gown ceremony. In 2005, after ending a lifelong career at Kodak Canada, he enrolled to train as a fundraising manager at Ryerson’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, and now works as a development director for a Toronto-based mental health charity. “It was a big change to get from the corporate world to the non-profit,” he says—but his alma mater was there to help. Hiring Staff to Work in CTBy Julia King Tamang, LERN As Contract Training Practitioners, you have two fundamental needs related to your institution’s department of Human Resources:
And while the first item on the list is potentially challenging, we are going to focus on the second in this article, as without Human Resources as your ally in this endeavor, it has the potential to shut your operation down. Most Contract Training programs run on a Just-In-Time hiring practice – bringing on board temporary help for just enough time to deliver the client’s training or services. Without the ability to do so easily, you don’t really have a program. (continue) Continuing Education as "Incubator" of New College Credit ProgramsBy Sandra Gaskin and Kirk White “Community colleges are centers of educational opportunity” (American Association of Community Colleges, 2010). Community colleges are a uniquely American institution, offering opportunity in higher education to students who might not seek higher education at a university. Open enrollment and opportunity are the hallmarks of community colleges. They are rooted in communities across the nation and provide academic transfer, associate degrees, adult basic education, and workforce training. (continue)
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