Connections, February 2009
Welcome to 2009. I hope that despite the economic challenges, you and your family are managing.Here at the College we have been working to ready ourselves for Connecticut’s financial challengesso that...
View ArticleConnections, August 2009
I am writing this in mid-July, and Connecticut has been having a cool, rainy summer. The one ‘hot spot,’ however, is the College’s summer online courses. Our enrollment is up 26% over last summer as...
View ArticleConnections, February 2010
Welcome to 2010. The past year has been a real challenge for many of our students and our alums. Let me begin this message by wishing you all a much better new year.For Charter Oak, the weak economy...
View ArticleRemaining Relevant
Welcome to my first official blog post for Charter Oak State College. When I asked the staff what the best way to communicate with our students and alums might be, I was curious about the approach...
View ArticleMicro-credentials: The Next Frontier
Charter Oak State College prepares working adults to advance their careers by completing their degrees. We have spent the past 37 years helping over 10,500 such adults finish their Associate or...
View ArticleCharter Oak's Vision Statement
As part of its ongoing strategic planning process, the College has created something we call The Visioning Team whose mission is to keep all entities within the institution focused on achieving the...
View Article2010 Commencement Speech: Life Happens
Charter Oak State College was created to serve adult students, second chance learners, who were balancing work and family while they worked to complete their degree. As I look out at your happy faces,...
View ArticleNew Programming for the Nation's Workforce
As the economy continues to struggle, we are focusing more than ever on our new Vision statement, particularly one line of that goal:Charter Oak State College: A community of online learners advancing...
View ArticleDegree Completion: The New Center
Thirty-seven years ago, Charter Oak State College was created to help adults return to college and finish their degrees. The founding idea of the College was that a degree represented a set of learning...
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Season's Greetings
I would like to take a moment to wish our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends a happy and healthy holiday. Personally, I have a great deal to be grateful for, not the least of which is the...
View ArticleCall to Action
I am sitting in my study watching the snow fall and figuring out when to release my staff for the snowy trip home. Presidents make lots of decisions, but none of them is as clearly right or wrong as...
View ArticleServing Adults at a Distance? Join Transparency by Design
Dear Friends,If you follow higher education coverage in the media, you will know that there is increasing pressure on us to produce and measure learning outcomes. Well, Charter Oak has been working on...
View ArticleDelivering Measurable Results
Happy Spring! When I haven't been worrying about collapsing ceilings and wet basements, I have been watching the new pressures from Washington sweep over higher education. America's approach to higher...
View ArticleA Formula for Success
The best thing about these blog posts is that I have the opportunity to talk about whatever is on my mind. I have just finished reading the latest Thomas Friedman book, That Used to Be Us, which he...
View ArticlePlease join us!
Mark your calendars for October 27! The Charter Oak State College Foundation is sponsoring its annual Shea Lecture, which is FREE and open to the public. This yearly event is offered in memory of the...
View ArticleServing Our Nation's Finest
Charter Oak State College is dedicated to educating adults. All our services are designed with working adults in mind, and our success is measured by their ability to finish their degree and improve...
View ArticleThoughts on 2012 and beyond
Let me begin by wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year. I am taking advantage of some quiet time to share my thoughts about 2012 with you. As President, it is part of my job to keep an eye out...
View ArticleOnline learning and the 21st century workplace
I get asked how Charter Oak State College is preparing students for the workforce at every meeting I attend, and my answer is one I enjoy giving time and time again. I shared it at a meeting in...
View ArticleWhat does Charter Oak mean to you?
Recently John Ebersole, President of Excelsior College, published a book called Courageous Learning: Finding a New Path through Higher Education(Hudson-Whitman Press). The book highlights some of the...
View ArticleHigher Education and Consumer Demand
Higher Education is facing a challenge that will require it to re-think its essential value proposition. For generations, we have provided the degrees—think tickets—that were required for entry into...
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