by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Can I admit that I tuned out? After a week of tearfully watching the news and reading stories of orphaned children, collapsed schools, amputated limbs, starving babies, and grieving families, my mind needed to escape and so, I tuned out. I watched American Idol instead of CNN, and The … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Based on a request brought by the IECA Special Needs Committee, the Board of Directors met via teleconference last week. Knowing that members overwhelmingly view the TalkList as a valuable benefit (based on the January 2010 member survey), the effort focused on ways to make the TalkList both more … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Registration for our Spring 2010 Conference will be opening soon and details of the scores of speakers, breakouts, seminars, and more will be posted on our Web site. I do want to share a little information about one of our featured speakers. Dr. Peter Jensen is a member of … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA We are excited to announce that many of the innovations that IECA introduced as experiments at the 2009 Fall Conference were so enthusiastically received that we are bringing them back, with a few changes to make them even more valuable. When IECA gathers in Toronto this May, the Speed … Read more »
The IECA Nominating Committee has completed their lengthy review and deliberations, and are pleased to announce the following slate for the Independent Educational Consultants Association leadership: Nominated to a Three-Year Term (2010 – 2013) IECA Board of Directors James “Bar” Clarke (ME) Jamie Dickenson (WV) Alan Haas (CT) Dodge Johnson (PA) [nominated to second Board term] … Read more »
by Dodge Johnson, President-Nominee, IECA (Pennsylvania) I have to say that Mark and I took on a lot of challenges – and that we had a great time gnawing on them. Our seminar leaders asked us to set an “audacious” goal. So after looking at the member survey, we said, “Okay, why not reshape the … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA “The pace of change in programming within your association must be commensurate with the pace of change in your member’s world.” This little bit of truth was but one of hundreds of things that IECA President-elect Dodge Johnson and I heard over the last two days. We were attending … Read more »
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0 comment by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA I had a brief e-mail exchange last week with Scott Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher Education. He called my attention to the Web site of a consulting firm that was meant to appeal to parents of one ethnic group. Scott was pretty sure that the owner of the site … Read more »
by Lisa Temkin (Illinois), IECA Member I just thought some of you might be interested in hearing about a liberal arts presentation that Jill Burstein and I organized as a marketing event for our consulting practices. We have three admissions people from three different liberal arts schools in the Midwest coming to speak on liberal … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Here we are just six days into the New Year, and I’m already focusing on what the consulting field will look like at the mid-point of the new decade. More specifically, I wonder how consultants’ work will be different, what their challenges will be, and what the Independent Educational … Read more »