Thomas State Edison Conference

By Catrina Roitman

6/15/2011

• Founded in 1978 as a private, non-profit institution and regionally accredited in 1980

• In 1995, WIU was acquired by Apollo Group Inc.

• In 2010, WIU became part of Apollo Global, a consolidated subsidiary of Apollo Group, and joined with sister schools in the United Kingdom, Chile, and Mexico

• Essays and portfolios

• Credit for West courses

• Before admitted

• Workshops and seminars • Online• Face-to-face• At corporations

• Strategy Process

• Faculty

• Research and Benchmarking

• Communication and Marketing Plan

• Discussion

• Support from management

• Assess systems

• Create a process

• Set a launch date

•Training and Hiring Challenges

•Recommended Books• Hart & Hickerson (2009)• Fiddler, Marienau, & Whitaker (2006)• Zucker, Johnson, & Flint (1999)

•Communication and update training plan

•Calibrating Faculty each quarter or as needed

• Data and Industry Standards

• CAEL Discussion board/ Contact List

• Find a Mentor

• CAEL Books

• Training • Developing materials• Create a plan• Regular schedule

• Newsletters• Faculty training• Student orientations

• Community colleges

• Human resource departments

• Websites

• Student Workshops

•Discussion

•Table Group Exercise

Fiddler, M., Marienau, C., & Whitaker, U. (2006). Assessing learning: Standards,

principles & procedures. Council for Adult and Experiential Learning: Chicago.

Hart, D., & Hickerson, J. (2009). Prior learning portfolios: A

representative collection. Chicago: Council for Adult and Experiential Learning.

Nonaka, I., & Nishiguchi, T. (Eds.). (2001). Knowledge emergence: Social, technical, and

evolutionary dimensions of knowledge creation. New York, NY: Oxford

University Press.

Zucker, B., Johnson, C., & Flint, T. (1999). Prior Learning

Assessment: A guidebook to American institutional practices. CAEL Dubuque,

Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.