Giving Compass' Take:

• Cengage Unlimited helped Concorde Career Colleges and Allen University educate the whole student with course materials that focused on careers and academics simultaneously. 

• How can universities utilize this product to engage students in understanding their future career paths?  How are you supporting whole-student curricula in your local school systems?

• Read more about helping the whole child succeed in school. 

At Allen University, a small, private four-year historically black university in Columbia, South Carolina, Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Charlene Spearen encourages faculty members to find innovative ways to keep students engaged.

“What I tell faculty is, you went into your discipline because you had a passion for it,” Spearen said. “Now take that passion and let’s see how we can energize course content.”

In choosing a digital education platform for the university’s more than 600 students, diversity of content was a top priority.

Concorde Career Colleges, a for-profit institution with campuses in eight states, offers more than 20 educational- and vocational-training programs in health care. Concorde mainly serves nontraditional students, who often need to download e-books and access digital course materials well beyond the term of their course or program. It was a constant challenge in the past.

The school needed a digital-learning solution that enabled students to access their course materials at any time during their study programs.

Just as every student has a unique story about their quest for a college education and the goals they hope to fulfill by earning a degree, the institutions serving these students are also diverse. At the same time, all of them try to improve access and affordability, provide their students with the tools to complete their studies successfully, and equip them with the skills required for a successful transition to the workplace. To reach those goals, they need a solution that is comprehensive, easy to implement and flexible enough to fit their institutional culture.

Concorde Career Colleges and Allen University found the whole-student focus they were looking for was achieved with Cengage in its offering of a first-of-its-kind digital subscription model, Cengage Unlimited.

Read the full article about how to support the whole student at Education Dive.