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Video: How to Get the Most From a LERN Membership

Video - The LERN Program Review: Position Your Unit for Success

Cancellation Rates and New Programs: A Lesson From Netflix

Ready for Liftoff: Drones and Drone Courses are More Popular Than Ever

Working with the University of Nebraska - Omaha

LERN At Communiversity at the University of Cincinatti

Tiny House Movement Offers Big Potential For Programming

The 8-Step Guide to Building a Standard Operating Procedure Manual

More Evidence for the Print Brochure

Do Yoga, Do Good: How One Program Combined Yoga Classes and Charitable Giving

More than half of registrations now coming in online

Integrated marketing done right

Yoga: Who Knew?

Improvement Plan: What Programs are Working on in 2017 (With Resources To help!)

Snapshot of success: Continuing Education & Corporate Training at Northern Lakes College

Key elements in creating a Successful customer experience culture

5 Food trends to feed new programming for 2017

Baltimore, here we come!

Importance of staff training

Making Projects Happen

Setting Goals

Fiscal year shift

Best Practices Summit a Winner!

Working with George Washington University

LERN and OLLI

LERN Presenters on the Road

Operations Institute Rocks

New Webinar: Traction - 5 Critical Elements to New Program Development

Community Education Rock Stars

Numbers Are Our Friends

Get to the LERN Best Practices Summit at Kirkwood Community College - Without Breaking the Bank

Staffing Structure Questions

National Council for Continuing Education & Training features Best Practices Summit at Kirkwood Community College

New Webinar: Succession Planning for Lifelong Learning

New Webinar: Get students to return, engage and convert with Retargeting

Oh, Canada

Alberta Adventures

First Things First

46 Mantras

The three secrets to successfully managing a multi-generational staff (They're not what you think)

Heading North

Program Reviews Popular

Crafting a Great Mission Statement

40 Awesome Sales Questions to Use For Contract Training

Lots of Tips

Top Strategies for Recruiting High-Quality Instructors - a NEW webinar from LERN!

Earn your CPP, CCT, CeP, COM, C2P, CMP or CPO Online!

Great Community Education

Big Win in New Orleans

More Hats at ‘Nine Shift for 2016’ on Saturday, Dec. 5

Exciting New Learning and Teaching Strategies - LERN Annual Conference News for Friday

Brochures Get Even More Visual - LERN Annual Conference News for Friday

Support Scholarships - LERN Annual Conference News for Friday

New! LERN Digital Library Opens - LERN Annual Conference News for Friday

A Few Tickets Left For President's Reception - LERN Annual Conference News for Thursday

Sessions to Light Up Your Program - LERN Annual Conference News for Thursday

Every Session is Good, But It's OK to Walk Out - LERN Annual Conference News for Thursday

Fall Registration Survey - LERN Annual Conference News for Thursday

Tweet the best tips with #lern15

New! Conference Overview

Just One Tip

New! Round tables 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m. Thursday

New This Year! People’s Choice Awards

WiFi at the LERN Annual Conference

LERN Annual Conference Social Events Update & Info

Avoid the Rush: Register Wednesday

First Timer at the LERN Annual Conference?

LERN All- Conference Reception

You're Invited to the LERN Leader Retreat

Some President’s Reception Tickets Left

Under age 37?

Get the LERN Annual Conference Mobile App

Sense of Community

Tweet the Conference!

Welcome to the 2015 LERN Annual Conference!

6 Primary Lifelong Learning Marketing Practices

Visiting the Crimson Tide

Are Your Contract Training Operating Margins at 50%?

Certificate programs booming

Tools for teaching adults

Visiting the Chocolate River

Faculty Development Conference, San Diego, April 6-8, 2016

How to assess your lifelong learning program

Do Your College Leaders Understand Contract Training?

Fun Times in Storm Lake

Annual Conference Almost Here!

LERN consultants provide expertise to continuing education programs

Is adult coloring on your next course schedule?

10 tips for creating killer online content for marketing

CLIMB Program Review

Contract Training Conference Heads to Chicago in 2016

OLLI Conference

New! Online Recreation Program Institute and CPP Jan. 11 – March 4, 2016 (8 weeks)

The Importance of Planning

New Webinar: Creating Instructor Handbooks - Free for LERN members!

How to write successful course descriptions

Earn College Credit by Attending the LERN Conference

New webinar on 3-D printing by nationally-know experts in the field

Red Deer College School of Continuing Education continues transition

10 tools for evaluating your contract training program’s effectiveness

Get the benchmarks you must be tracking to measure performance with LERN's program review

Free member webinar on pricing set for October

Back on the road

Super Bowl #5

Bring a LERN speaker to your next event!

LERN announces launch of Dashboard Tool, Free webinar

Bring a LERN Institute to your neck of the woods

A road less traveled

Prepare for 2016 Summer Camp Success

Learn how to increase staff performance with the Online Operations Institute

Free Webinar for LERN Members on Marketing Benchmarks

Sailing the days away

New webinar - marketing benchmarks (free for LERN members!)

LERN's program review takes your program to the next level

Mobile optimization highlights Best Websites session at LERN Conference

Grow your program with a new webinar on needs assessments

Community education success

New webinar: The finances of lifelong learning

Roseville Parks and Recreation addresses community need with Operation Swim

Baseball stadiums

NICC Business and Community Solutions succeeds with business-centric strategic plan

New webinar: Advanced Facebook Marketing

Online Operations Institute

Bring a LERN Institute to your location!

District 128 Community Education uses partnerships to offer new, diverse programming

Salina Public Library successfully rolls out new programming with great brochure

President's involvement important

New webinar: Course evaluation strategies & Making data-driven decisions

City of Vaughan Recreation & Culture Department finds success and profit with smartphone app

How Santa Barbara City College Center for Lifelong Learning innovated and became financially self-sufficient

And we have a winner!

How the Center for Lifelong Learning at Athens State served its community during a crisis

Penn State Corporate Learning solves corporate conundrum with creation of Team Decision Center

City of Newport Beach reaches temporary residents with smart marketing approach

FY15 Is Over

Truckee Meadows Community College builds certificate program success on emerging trends, technology

Improve the way you market your contract training program

Frederick County Parks & Recreation finds the parkscription for success

2016 LERN International Awards nominations now open!

The 2015 LERN Annual Conference brochure is out!

Seven Institutes Offered Online this Fall!

Finding New Markets

Helping out a LERN member

University of Central Florida

Closet Baseball

Get the best value for your year-end budget dollars with LERN

"Traction" Takeaways for Lifelong Learning Programs

Stroll down memory lane

Nine Shift Post: Prediction: U.S. To Realize More Males Need Higher Ed in 2017

LERN Best Practices Summit at Kirkwood Community College

New webinar: Winning Methods for Finding New Markets & Customers

Lifelong Learning Assessment Tool

The LERN Program Review explained

Nine Shift: For-Profits Try to Take Over Lifelong Learning

Partner with LERN to manage your certificate program

From Sea to Shining Sea

10 awesome lifelong learning social media accounts to check out

New free webinar: Winning techniques for increasing staff intellectual capital

Nine Shift: Media Part of the Anti-Male Conspiracy

Moving Forward at Harford College

Three ways for Busy Contract Training Professionals to Gear Up for Tomorrow

Executive Leadership

New Operations Matters webinar will help you simplify and streamline processes

Like a Rolling Stone

Go Go Lobos!

The need for visionaries

The Importance of a One-Year Business Plan

Free webinar: LERN Helps Grow The George Washington University's Certificate Revenue

New webinar: 10 Social Media Hacks to Bring More Visuals to Your Online Presence

Meet Suzanne Kart, LERN Associate Vice President for Marketing

On the road again

LERN Contract Training Conference

Too much snow

Boost your career at the 2015 LERN Institutes

Five tips for closing a contract training sale

Congratulations to the City of Olympia

Making the shift

The top reasons to attend the 2015 LERN Institutes

Save time and money streamlining your brochure production process

LERN’s New Webcast Service

A snowy winter

Taking your inbound marketing to the next level in lifelong learning

The Big Snow!

Meet Russ Mills, LERN Consultant

11 benefits of a continuing education interim

10 questions to ask before planning new continuing education programs

New free webinar: Pricing for Profit in lifelong learning

LERN Management Retreat

Up your social media strategy

Use social tools to get more sales in contract training

Glass blowing in New York

Happy New Year!

Are you asking the right questions before launching new lifelong learning programs?

10 Google Analytic Tricks to Maximize your Marketing

Have success with credit programming in continuing education

The importance of planning in contract training

Taking a break

Get the best lifelong learning promotion tools for the year ahead

Best of the best: See the 2015 LERN Award Winners

8 tips for a successful contract sales division staff structure