Last year, I had the pleasure of visiting the campus of my alma mater, Eastern Illinois University, in rural Charleston, about 55 miles south of Urbana-Champaign. Not much had changed since I last ...

Argosy University System is among the first institutions in a movement toward competency-based education, creating new models of direct assessment that promise to reduce time-to-degree and offer ...

As a manager, I view it as my responsibility to provide every engineer with a realistic and achievable growth plan they can execute against. In that responsibility, I try to be fair and objective, ...

We believe that current graduation requirements represent “the wrong goalposts” and are a significant barrier to adequately preparing our young people for life and work after they leave school.

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian from the 17th century once said, “All things are difficult before they are easy.” In fact, we know thanks to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers that the ...

The competency marketplace is poised to change the narrative around human capital development. Today, job seekers and job holders alike are all driving around without a map. Tomorrow, the competency ...