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Employee Tuition Assistance: The Payoff and the Practice
Are you getting the most for your learning investment
Corporate America spent approximately $10 billion on tuition reimbursement for employees in 2003. According to recent Wall Street Journal findings, providing access to tuition assistance is now cited as the number one employee retention strategy.
More than 85 percent of Human Resource (HR) professionals at about 1,300 firms that offer some form of educational benefit consider it an important strategic investment.
What are your competitors and peers doing that you aren’t?
Find out as we highlight a recent study commissioned by The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) which looked at practices and trends in spending on educational benefits. Learn how you can maximize the value of your tuition dollars and capitalize on recruitment and retention opportunities.
Join Bill Wiggenhorn, CAEL’s Senior Advisor for Corporate Relations and former CLO of Motorola University, and John Zappa, Senior Vice President of Learner Services at CAEL in this informative session as they discuss the strategic value of providing Tuition Assistance programs tied to specific business goals
Keynote Presentations by:
Bill Wiggenhorn -- is vice chairman of the GEM group, a global education management company, headquartered in Singapore and Shanghai. He has previously held positions as Chief Learning Officer at Motorola, Xerox, and Cigna Corporation.
While at Motorola, Bill expanded Motorola University to 101 education offices located in 24 countries. He developed two corporate museums, several corporate customer briefing centers, a university and secondary-education relationship team, and the archives of the corporation.
John Zappa -- oversees sales and delivery of CAEL’s Learner Services including the management of cost effective, high quality Tuition Assistance programs and related value-added services including career coaching and educational advising.
With over twenty years of experience in product strategy, operations, and sales, John has led the successful commercialization of dozens of technology-driven products and services. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA from Dartmouth College.