AI is reshaping entry-level jobs across business fields, disrupting how early-career professionals build skills and advance. In this piece, Eduvantis examines new data on AI-driven workforce change and explains why business schools aren’t keeping pace. The article outlines what institutions need to rethink—from curriculum to employer partnerships—to better prepare students for an AI-driven job market.
Higher education leaders often talk about diversifying revenue streams, but many strategies still rely on the same fragile mechanism: enrollment-driven tuition. In this post, Eduvantis President Tim Westerbeck explores why traditional tuition-dependent models are becoming unsustainable—and how institutions can build more resilient, diversified revenue through monetizing academic assets, partnerships, and revenue streams that operate independently of degree enrollment.
While enrollment is climbing and demand remains strong, smaller institutions face financial strain, closures, and questions about degree value. In this post, Eduvantis President Tim Westerbeck explores three key data points that reveal a system in transition, where elite universities flourish and under-resourced colleges fight for survival.
I’ve been watching the three-year bachelor’s degree quietly make its way from idea to mainstream reality. With 43 institutions now in the College-in-3 Exchange and major accreditors opening their approval processes, I think we’re seeing higher education’s most significant structural change since the credit hour… Read More »The Three-Year Degree Revolution: Why is Education’s Biggest Structural Change in Decades Happening Now?
I keep a close eye on what’s going on in the non-degree credentials market. Particularly, as I have an increasing number of conversations with clients about “finding alternative revenue streams.” The American Enterprise Institute’s new study on credential accountability delivers a wake-up call for higher… Read More »A Credential “Quality Crisis? What AEI’s New Research Means for Higher Education’s Future
Here’s another big number to consider this week: 37.6 million working adults with “some college, no credential” are seeking educational pathways, according to new data released today (Wednesday, June 4) by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Stopped-out student reenrollment jumped 2.7% in 2023-24, more… Read More »The 37.6 Million Opportunity: Why Business Schools Need to Accelerate Their Adult Learner Strategy
As part of my role on AACSB’s Innovation Committee, concurrent with my attendance at the AACSB ICAM 2025 in Vienna, I participated in a demonstration of the latest in the application of Virtual Reality technology in the business education context. The experience was mind-bending, for… Read More »Can These Goggles See the Future?