Strategic planning seminar for community and technical college decision makers, including chief academic officers, college presidents, vice presidents, members of boards of trustees, and other senior decision makers.
Come experience two days with experts who spend every day on the cutting edge of education. Discover how society is changing as we move from the Industrial Age to the Internet Age. Learn about the implications for repositioning your community or technical college for success in the new century.

Then take home our exclusive 21 action recommendations for strategic planning for community and technical colleges, and participate in the adventure to make our education even more successful in the second decade of the century.

Why You Should Attend
In the next ten years, our society will transition from the Industrial Age of the last century to the Internet Age of the 21st century. Community and technical colleges will necessarily have to be transformed to meet the new requirements for society, your local economy, your students, and the quality of life in your community.

The need for discussion and dialogue about strategic planning has never been greater. There is now widely recognized confusion about the direction of higher education and the role of community and technical colleges in this century.

Who Should Attend
Community and technical college decision makers, including chief academic officers, college presidents, and vice presidents, should attend this premiere event. Members of boards of trustees and other senior college decision makers will also find the strategic planning seminar relevant and valuable.
End Results
With new information not available anywhere else, you will go home with an entirely new and positive perspective on your college and its future, as well as 21 specific action recommendations to position your institution for greater success.
Outcomes
As a result of attending this planning seminar, you will have a strategic knowledge advantage in making business and pedagogical decisions determining your college’s future.
Benefits
• Copy of “Nine Shift: Work, life and education in the 21st century”
• Premiere release of “The Pedagogy of the 21st Century”
• Opportunity to refresh your thinking and energies by engaging in a dialogue with other senior decision makers in community and technical colleges
Take home
Exclusive 21 Action Recommendations for strategic planning specifically for community and technical colleges over the next 3-5 years
Unique
Just three of the reasons this premiere seminar is distinctive:
1. Research and evidence not available anywhere else
2. Engaging presenters and futurists whose predictions are already coming true
3. Unique perspective and recommendations you will not get from any other source
Timely
This is the decade when the Industrial Age of the last century goes into decline, and the Internet Age of this century emerges. It is the decade when your community or technical college transforms itself to remain relevant for your community’s economy, business and workforce needs, and quality of life.
For Senior Decision Makers
As a senior decision maker, you have the responsibility of influencing the allocation of both people and capital resources for your institution. That expenditure can either be an investment positioning your institution for success, or an ill-advised wrong direction. This is the decade in the new century and economy when people and organizations make the critical decisions whose effects are felt for decades. Your task, your college, and your community are too important for you to miss out on this essential research and perspective.
Information not available anywhere else
Only this seminar will tell you:
• Your students are currently driving 37% less than past young generations, and the implications for your college.
• Teleworkers are 25% more effective than office workers, and why your college will be training your students to work from home.
• Why your college is the primary, if not only, educational institution responsible for increasing the percentage of adults in your community with a four-year college degree.
• How to make your faculty and staff 20% more productive.
• Why Baby Boomers love meetings and your Gen X and Gen Y faculty and staff hate them.
…and much more.
Bring Back
• The 21 essential new characteristics of community colleges for success in the 21st century.
• Our 90 predictions for this decade for society and their relevance for your institutional strategic planning.
• Handouts with slides of the presenters’ material.
“Julie Coates’ Generational Learning Styles provides advisors with an invaluable resource for student development. It is a must read.”
National Academic Advising Association Journal
About the Learning Resources Network (LERN)
The Learning Resources Network is a nonprofit national education association serving more than 500 colleges and universities every year with information, consulting, faculty development, and research.

LERN sponsors the Certified Online Instructor (COI) designation for faculty, the most widely respected designation for faculty teaching online in higher education, and the Certified Faculty Developer (CFD). Find out more at lern.org.
 
 
The Pelican Grand Beach Resort offers luxurious accommodations along with an oceanfront location and private beach. $209 single or double, plus applicable taxes and fees. Cutoff date is Friday, Jan 7. LERN has a block of 18 rooms. Call in to make reservations.

Pelican Grand Beach Resort
2000 N. Ocean Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305
800-525-OCEAN for reservations
954-568-9431
www.pelicanbeach.com

The Resort is just 7 miles from the Fort Lauderdale Airport, 8 miles from AMTRAK, and 25 miles
from Miami International Airport.
Your Presenters
Your presenters are two of the leading futurists in education today. They are the most frequently quoted experts in lifelong learning by the nation’s media, having appeared on the BBC, NPR, CBS radio, NBC TV and interviewed by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Associated Press and many more.
Coates and Draves are co-authors of “Nine Shift: Work, life and education in the 21st Century.” The BBC calls Nine Shift “Fascinating.” Their forthcoming book is “The Pedagogy of the 21st Century.”
Julie Coates is author of the pioneering book, Generational Learning Styles, and one of the foremost authorities on gender and learning. She has been interviewed by The New York Times and other national media, and given presentations at Harvard and in Russia, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Mexico.
Vice President for Information Services at LERN, she also teaches in the graduate program in Adult and Higher Education for the University of South Dakota.
William A. Draves is an author, consultant, futurist and President of the Learning Resources Network. He does consulting for college and university decision makers, conducts faculty development seminars, and has taught more than 6,000 faculty about teaching online.
He recently keynoted the national conference of the Association Test Publishers. Educator Phil Housel of Kerrville, Texas, says, “I’d trample my grandma to hear Draves speak.”
 
 
On Site Consulting and Presentations
Call Tammy at 800-678-5376 or email her at info@lern.org
 

 
 
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