Jennifer Radke

Thinking about launching a Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP)? One of the first things to understand is whether your state operates under a State Apprenticeship Agency (SAA) or the federal Office of Apprenticeship (OA). This distinction determines who you’ll work with to register and oversee your program—and getting it right early can save time and frustration later. The terminology can feel confusing at first, but knowing your state’s designation is both simple and essential for moving your program forward. https://lnkd.in/gFmA-qdT

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Applicability, not another equivalency tool. The challenge of transfer applicability in higher education presents a significant obstacle for learners. Current methods heavily rely on pre-mapped equivalencies and articulation agreements, leading to inefficiencies and delays in evaluating how a student's prior coursework matches a new degree program. Institutions face the burden of maintaining extensive equivalency databases, which may not always align with students' real-time needs. Moreover, the traditional approach delays credit applicability decisions until after enrollment, driven by cost implications and administrative intricacies. If you’d like the white paper let me know.

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Education is inherently valuable–it improves one’s understanding and ability to reason, and enables individuals to see a grander version of themselves. But its full promise is realized only when learning connects to real opportunity. At the end of the day, it's still a means to an end. What outcomes do you look for to know a pathway is working?

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WOW - Big Opportunity Announcement from Arizona State University 's Trusted Learner Network and the fabulous Kate Giovacchini: an opportunity for #HigherEducation seed partners to empower learners to collect, manage and share their own verified achievements with confidence and control. Check it out! * Becoming a TLN partner involves a collaborative, phased approach. * Institutions form a cross-functional team including leadership, student services, registrars and technology teams. * The foundation phase involves identifying target learner groups, defining credentialing goals, securing an MOU, and embedding the repository in existing systems. * In the execution phase, institutions integrate credential data, set up single sign-on, build communications, and officially launch the TLN — alongside joining our governance community to co-shape what’s next. #AllLearningCounts #Heutagogy #Partnerships

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Why Higher Ed Needs an IAM Platform Designed for Education 🎓 Colleges and universities don’t manage identities like corporations—and their Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms shouldn’t either. From massive term-based onboarding events to complex overlapping roles, alumni relationships, and duplicate records, higher ed faces unique identity challenges that generic IAM solutions simply weren’t built to handle. In Part 1 of this new blog series, Bryan Christ breaks down what makes higher ed identity management so complex—and why a purpose-built IAM solution like RapidIdentity is essential for the academic environment. 👉 Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/e6ucTxrk #HigherEd #IdentityManagement #IAM #Cybersecurity #EdTech #RapidIdentity #IdentityAutomation

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Is your institution ready to meet the LEARN Commission’s roadmap for student success? 🎓📊 The recent coverage in Inside Higher Ed regarding the LEARN Commission report makes one thing clear: Transfer evaluation needs to evolve to better serve today’s learners. The report identifies three critical "levers" for systemic change. At Parchment, we offer solutions like Data Automation (Raptor) to be the engine to help institutions accomplish all three at once: 🔹 1. Enhancing Student Data and Technology Systems Manual data entry is a bottleneck to student mobility. Raptor automates the ingestion of transcript data with unmatched accuracy, turning static PDFs into actionable, structured data in seconds. It’s not just about speed; it’s about building a foundation of data integrity. 🔹 2. Investing in Human Capital Your staff’s greatest value isn't in typing data into a CRM or SIS—it’s in supporting students. By automating the "grunt work" of data entry, Raptor frees up your team to focus on high-touch advising, transcript evaluation, and enrollment strategy. We invest in people by giving them better tools. 🔹 3. Building Supportive Policy Conditions To implement policies that favor transfer equity and credit transparency, you need clean, standardized data across the board. Parchment’s automation solutions provide the visibility required to make data-driven policy decisions that actually move the needle for learners. The path forward for Higher Ed involves moving from fragmented processes to integrated, automated systems. Read more about the LEARN Commission’s findings in the full Inside Higher Ed article here: A New Vision for Learning Evaluation Curious how Raptor can modernize your data workflow? Here’s a link to a short video: https://lnkd.in/gxWBgKkY Want more info??? Let’s connect!! #HigherEd #EdTech #DataAutomation #LEARNCommission #StudentSuccess #Parchment #Raptor #RegistrarLife #DigitalTransformation #AACRAO

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The Missouri Independent on PRiME’s Columbia event: Educators look to Missouri growth model to measure instructional effectiveness “St. Louis University’s PRiME Center, a nonpartisan education think tank, held a half-day conference on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia Thursday to dig into how the state calculates academic growth and celebrates high-growth districts. ‘We are really interested in schools that are moving kids the most,’ PRiME executive director Collin Hitt told reporters. ‘We want to do better than we are.’ Hitt believes Missouri has the best formula for calculating academic growth, and the data generated by the formula can help the state identify the best teaching practices.” Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gmxJcnmm

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