by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Feb 16, 2021 | All Topics, Program Innovation
“What is going on in the noncredit market?” This has always been one of our clients’ toughest questions. Noncredit courses and programs are seemingly always both part-of-the-furniture—gathering dust in some obscure corner of continuing education—and about to come out...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 12, 2021 | All Topics
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Michael R. Sandler, Eduventures founder. Mike Sandler (1940-2020) was a force for good in American education, championing numerous entrepreneurial and philanthropic initiatives over four decades. In 1993, Mike established...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 12, 2021 | All Topics, Snapshot
Q. Will the Biden Administration turn its sights to regulation of OPMs, or can they breathe easily? While higher education oversight efforts under Obama were wide-ranging, for-profits were often the target, notably with the Gainful Employment rules requiring...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 5, 2021 | All Topics
In the wake of COVID-19, momentous and completely unexpected, it might be tempting to go big on higher education predictions for 2021—an alien invasion perhaps? But higher education is battling quite enough drama to get pulses racing over what might—or might...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 8, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics
COVID-19 has humbled prognosticators everywhere: an impossible-to-predict global pandemic has impacted higher education in 2020 far more than anything this rusty analyst’s musing could conjure in the halcyon days of last January. A year ago, my first of three annual...
