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Introduction
At the recent "Competing in Higher Education" conference hosting by Eduventures, one of the panel sessions stressed
the importance of partnerships in an increasingly competitive higher education industry. In this Leadership interview we consider
the impact that innovative partnerships between non-profit and for profit entities may have on the future of higher education.
The leading for-profit, career-oriented colleges and universities have been creating great wealth for shareholders in
the last few years due to soaring demand, while serving an important role in developing the workforce. Meanwhile, most non-profit/traditional
post-secondary institutions, while having significant overlap in serving career education and workforce development needs,
either have little incentive to grow capacity at the rate required to meet these needs or are just not set up to do so.
Our interviewee has been helping institutions consider innovative approaches that could help provide the incentives and capabilities
needed to meet the important societal need of high quality, career relevant education.
Mike Goldstein, a member of the Washington, DC law firm Dow, Lohnes and Albertson, created and for 26 years has lead the
firm's higher education practice. Before he joined DLA, Mike was an Associate Vice Chancellor at the University of Illinois
in Chicago. He is responsible for ground-breaking work and he and his colleagues are true experts in a number of key areas
of higher education, including accreditation and licensure, federal regulation, non-profit taxation, online learning and the
general use of technology in delivering education, intellectual property, financing, mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and
joint ventures.
Mike was kind enough to answer some challenging questions proposed by A-HEC on behalf of a presumed to be a cautious majority
of higher education leaders.
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