Tuition Reimbursement: From Employee Benefit to Strategic Asset
When: Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Tuition Reimbursement programs are often considered simply a check-mark employee benefit, with little attention paid to whether a company gets any value from the money spent. But Learning and Development organizations are getting more involved in these programs, and asking questions about them. In response, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) recently completed a detailed study of tuition reimbursement practices and will share some of those results. John Zappa, from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), and Marcia Dresner, from CorpU, will talk about the missed opportunities in today’s programs, and some of the ways that the most successful programs are reshaping themselves into strategic assets.
Join Us To Learn:
- How companies are designing and executing tuition reimbursement programs today.
- What companies are planning to change about their programs.
- The major gaps in today's programs that keep them from being strategic assets .
- How companies like Caterpillar, Verizon and others are getting the attention of senior executives by aligning them with business goals.
Presenters:
John is Senior Vice President for Learner Services. John oversees sales and delivery of services for corporate clients, including the management of tuition assistance programs and educational advising. Prior to his current position, John served CAEL in the acting role of Vice President of Business Development. With over twenty years experience in the commercial sector, John has been involved in marketing, product management and operations in technology companies across multiple industries. John began his career at IBM, where he served as a Manufacturing Engineer and later as a Sales Engineer. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon and his MBA from Dartmouth College.
Marcia Dresner is a Senior Research Analyst for Corporate University Xchange. She conducts research and analysis of learning and development issues, and provides advisory services to a range of Fortune 500 companies based on that research. Marcia has edited and written numerous research reports, as well as the CorpU Journal and CorpU Annual Benchmarking reports, and manages the CorpU Analyst Inquiry process.
Prior to joining CorpU, Marcia was service director for the Human Capital Strategies Service at Syndicated Research Group and provided research for high-level human resource executives. She was also a key player in the creation of a computer software firm that developed utility software for early portable computers and desktop systems.
Marcia was the Senior Managing Editor of the American Chemical Society’s CHEMTECH magazine. She managed all aspects of communication on development of R&D, management, science, marketing, and technology.
Marcia earned a bachelor’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.