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OP105 - Developing a Five-year Plan for Your Career School
Facilitator: Dr. Susan Schulz- What will your school look like in five years? School growth takes change and the commitment of the stakeholders in your organization. A five-year plan is essential for any school owner or director no matter how long they have been in the business. It includes various elements such as your enrollment goals for all programs, plans for new programs, new profit center potential, fees and all financial aid opportunities, enhancement of student services, faculty and staff planning, marketing and development strategies, and planning for physical space to support your expansion goals. Also, development plans are often needed to satisfy licensing and accreditation requirements.
This course covers the essential components and techniques involved in developing a comprehensive five-year plan. We will show you an effective step-by-step planning process that involves the participation of representatives from your school including staff, instructors, students, graduates, and the employers who hire your graduates. The process encourages participants to share their knowledge and ideas, and everyone who participates in the process ultimately becomes a stakeholder in making the plan work. The course includes planning worksheets that you could download and use to help you develop your school’s five-year plan.
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OP110 - Developing Effective Advisory and Governing Boards
Facilitator: Dr. Robert Roehrich- Vital advisory and governing boards create additional opportunities to enhance school operations. Well-prepared board members engaged in appropriate and timely activities can make a substantial contribution to a school's operational, financial and management success. Creating, managing and maintaining effective advisory and governing boards can be a demanding yet rewarding process. Board members have to be identified, recruited, and trained to be effective and to understand their role as individual contributors and as members of a group of advisors. To gain maximum leverage from a board, members must also remain motivated and retain a concentrated focus on the school's mission, purposes and goals. This course will provide a blueprint, with accompanying checklists, for establishing and maintaining effective advisory and governing boards in a career school setting.
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OP115 - Hiring the Right Faculty for Your School
Facilitator: Jeffrey Schillinger- This course shows you how to hire high-quality career school instructors and orient them to your school. The skills also apply to hiring staff. It's easy to hire someone to do a job. But it can be difficult to hire the right person. You want instructors who are top notch. They represent your school and interact with the most people at your campus and particularly your students. This course starts with how to determine exactly what type of people you need as your instructors. Then it shows you how to recruit and hire them. Once hired, you'll learn how to introduce them to the working environment at your school. By the time you finish this course, you'll be recruiting, hiring, and orienting quality instructors. You'll see results in improved enrollments, student achievement, retention, and completion.
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OP121 - Managing Online Faculty at a Distance
Facilitator: Dr. S. David Vaillancourt- It is no longer news that predictive learning analytics are changing online classroom instruction. This course teaches current trends in locating, hiring, monitoring and retaining the best professionals that specialize in online instruction. More importantly, this course provides insights for using the new predictive analytic approaches to optimize management of online faculty. Generalized "best practices" are waning in favor of real-time monitoring for individualized qualitative and quantitative analyses. This real-time approach provides significantly increased student success and retention. Also addressed in the course is how to build a strong faculty management team, continuing faculty development recommendations and various business considerations.
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OP201 - Developing a Successful Online Program
Facilitator: Dr. Robert Roehrich- In most cases, launching an online program successfully requires more planning, time, and resources than will be available. Marrying the mission of the school, the demographics of students, the capabilities of faculty, and the technology is challenging. This course describes the phases of launching an online program and strategies for successful implementation. Each module is based on key decision points that need to be addressed before, during, and after each phase of implementation. Definitions of key terms and acronyms will help build confidence in discussing aspects of online program development with all of the stakeholders.
This is a free course sponsored by
McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions
Use Enrollment Key: MH-3435
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CM301 - Compliance Training for Texas School Directors
Facilitator: JP Mehlmann- This course provides school administrators (including School Director, Executive Director, Campus President, Dean of Education and senior campus managers) in the state of Texas a working knowledge of the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) Rules and Regulations for Career Schools and Colleges. This course covers all aspects of operations and compliance for administrative-level staff. The how and why details in the areas of Admissions, Administration, Financial Aid, Education and Career Services are covered in a user-friendly, multi-sensory environment that allows the participants to test themselves on compliance issues that are faced on a daily basis. Participants are advised to review the TWC rules and forms via the internet, throughout the course.
This course has been created from the TWC's School Directors' Resource Guide for Career Schools and Colleges. Thanks to TWC's curriculum writers, content specialists and sponsors for the creation of the excellent guide that provided the core content for this course. Also, thanks to Career Colleges and Schools of Texas (CCST) for providing the additional content for the interactive features and assessment components of the course.
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ML110 - New Manager Transitions
Facilitator: Ryan Meers, Ph.D.- In this course, you will learn what it means to be a manager, as well as how to navigate the complex and often stressful transition from individual contributor to a new manager.
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ML123 - Managing Upward
Facilitator: Ryan Meers, Ph.D.- How well do you work with your supervisor? This course will help you develop a mutually rewarding relationship with your supervisor. You will learn proven techniques for effectively communicating and negotiating with your supervisor, presenting problems or opportunities and accepting responsibility for your proposed actions.
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ML124 - Managing Virtual Teams
Facilitator: Ryan Meers, Ph.D.- This course provides concrete suggestions for forming virtual teams, including assessing their technology and communication needs, structuring the team to build trust, and keeping the team on track.
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ML138 - Crisis Management
Facilitator: Dr. Gary Carlson- In this course, you will learn a practical, hands-on method for looking at crises. The course will show you how to develop a crises audit to avoid and prepare for crises, how to manage an actual crisis, and how to learn from past events.
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ML141 - Finance Essentials
Facilitator: Jay Hollowell- Financial management can be a daunting task. This course covers the essential concepts of finance, budgeting, forecasting, and planning for non-financial managers.
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ML142 - Budgeting Essentials
Facilitator: Jay Hollowell- In this course, you will learn about the budget process, different types of budgets, and common budgeting problems so you can allocate resources wisely to meet your goals.
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ML145 - Process Improvement
Facilitator: Dr. Eric Goodman- In this course, you will learn what business processes are, why improving them is essential, and how to carry out a business process improvement (BPI) initiative.
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RT104 - Best Practices to Enhance Student Retention
Facilitator: Jeffrey Schillinger- This course is a collection of ideas and best practices drawn from the implementation of enrollment growth strategies at over 300 colleges and schools nationwide. The course is based on a highly successful in-service training program offered by Dr. Joe Pace, Managing Partner of The Pacific Institute and includes video delivery of Pace's presentations. Filled with practical tips and suggestions, the course also discusses the application of current research results on human behavior and organizational culture to enhance student enrollment and retention. This is a unique course that will dramatically change your perspective on school effectiveness.
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