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Nurturing Staff
The agenda is now out! ‘Nurturing Staff’ is one of six new themes for the LERN Annual Conference, Nov. 17-20, 2025. The conference will have all-new sessions in pioneering best practices and advanced strategies and tips. The most exciting week in lifelong learning just got more exciting. Over 1,500 people will attend, making it the
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Dashboard Open
It’s free and open to all, even non-member organizations. Get feedback on the five most important measures in our business. Enter your data and get comparisons with your fellow organizations by institutional setting and size of community. Your data is confidential. Just go to www.LERNdashboard.org Now. Don’t wait. Find out what the average program gets
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Pricing Tips
Pricing is a critical activity we do all the time. This is one of the three most popular topics for members. Last month we had over 200 people sign up for our complimentary webinar on pricing. Let’s look at the 5 pricing tips that stand out right now in 2025. 1.Courses and offerings with the
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Top Ten
The LERN Top Ten Highlights for FY25 focus on the pioneering, breakthrough innovations, research, best practices, benchmarks and data co-created by our members and staff. As your primary information and consulting resource concludes its fiscal year, we thank you for all your support, attendance, and membership. Once again, another 100,000 people took classes from our
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Recruiting Instructors
It’s a top challenge for programs this year. For a variety of demographic reasons, it is tougher now to attract instructors who want to teach. Three practitioners from three different institutional settings have developed innovative and successful ways to recruit instructors. Here’s what they do. Cast a Wider Net Cast a wider net, says Michael
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New! ‘Class Rank’
Exclusive to UGotClass, a new Class Ranking premieres this month. The Class Ranking allows your students, and especially their employers, to find out how well each did compared to others taking the same certificate over the past year. The ranking is confidential, of course. Unless your student is in the Top Ten. Then you and
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This Fall, Become a CPP
This fall, become a CPP. For leaders, send your entire staff to become a Certified Program Planner (CPP). Professionals in the field only know about 50% of what they need to know to maximize their productivity and your organization’s success, according to LERN’s lead instructor for the CPP, Vice President Brendan Marsello.
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New Summer Camp Event
Every program should be offering, or expanding, their Summer Camps and Kids’ College programming. Summer camps for youth cannot keep up with demand, are very profitable, and have other financial benefits for your organization. Now you have two ways to plan for Summer Camps 2026. Summer Camps 2026 Webinar Series The top practitioners from around
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New Service: A Smile
“Oh, I’m not rescuing you. I just want you to have my flyer on ‘Making Crafts with Coconut Shells.’” Smile. You have a cartoon with every issue of your LERN print newsletter this coming year. They are drawn exclusively for LERN by artist Greg Brecht. A little old-fashioned, a little corny, and just right. Enjoy.