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Student Authentication, Academic Integrity, and the Higher Education Opportunity
Act of 2008
At Compass we hear a great deal of concern coming from our partner community about the new regulations enacted as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) regarding authenticating the identity of online students. Rumors abound about what this means for [...]

Hear What Our Academic Partners are Saying About Their Online Learning Success
By providing the entire scope of online services, Compass helps institutions achieve success – well beyond industry norms – in six main areas. One of those areas is enrollment quantity and quality. Our goal is not to attract more students to a program, but [...]

Opportunity & Integrity
A newsletter for higher education executives to ensure financial and strategic success in their online learning initiatives.
Dr. Fredrick R. Snow

Dr. Snow has served in academia as university President, Vice President, Dean, and Tenured Faculty. He was the Founding Dean of the Online Graduate Programs of Norwich University. These programs are often cited as [...]

This issue of Opportunity and Integrity veers slightly from our prior themes to highlight a series of presentations that were given at the 2009 Sloan-C annual distance education conference on October 29th and 30th.

A newsletter for higher education executives to ensure financial and strategic success in their online learning initiatives.
Dr. Gloria Pickar
Dr. Pickar is the President and Chief Academic Officer of Compass Knowledge Group. With over 35
years of higher education experience, Dr. Pickar is a former college dean and distinguished author of a bestselling textbook in nursing.

Theme [...]

A newsletter for higher education executives to ensure financial and strategic success in their online learning initiatives.

Shrinking endowments. Tightening student loan funding. Declining subsidies. These are the realities of higher education in the coming years. Administrators are desperately seeking solutions for new sources of revenue with lower overhead costs. Online learning could be the answer [...]

A newsletter for higher education executives to ensure financial and strategic success in their online learning initiatives.
Dr. Gloria Pickar

Dr. Pickar is the President and Chief Academic Officer of Compass Knowledge Group. With over 35 years of higher education experience, Dr. Pickar is a former college dean and distinguished author of a bestselling textbook in [...]

A newsletter for higher education executives to ensure financial and strategic success in their online learning initiatives.
Current and Future Topics

Assessing Online Education Financial Models
Bridging the Expectation Gap between Faculty and Administration
The Many Strategic Byproducts of Online Programs
Hitting the Moving Target of Online Education
Leveraging Online Learning to Achieve Your International Education and Study Abroad Goals
The Complex [...]