Monday, December 15, 2025
11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET

Elevate Your Institution’s Relevance, Workforce Competencies & Learner Expectations

Micro-credentials are no longer just an experiment—they’re a powerful tool to meet learner needs, respond to workforce demands and expand institutional impact. Yet, many colleges and universities still struggle to align micro-credential initiatives with broader strategic goals, often lacking infrastructure, policies, and cross-departmental coordination needed to support implementation. Administrators may ask: How do we scale? How do we align with institutional strategy? How do we prove value to students and employers?

Join us on December 15, 2025, as our expert presenter provides you with answers to those questions and more.  She will help you to move beyond theory and one-off initiatives to gain the insights, tools, and frameworks you need to make micro-credentials a sustainable and integrated part of your institution’s academic portfolio.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a practical, institution-wide framework for a strategic and systems-level approach to operationalizing micro-credentials. You’ll leave with actionable strategies to transform micro-credentials from isolated aspirations into sustainable, mission-driven programs that elevate your institution’s relevance, workforce competencies, and evolving learner expectations.

Topics Covered

You will gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Align initiatives with strategy – Learn how to connect micro-credential programs to your institutional mission, workforce competencies and evolving learner expectations.
• Build collaborative ecosystems – Discover how to break down silos and foster cross-functional collaboration with faculty, student services, IT, and employer partners.
• Expand learning opportunities – Identify ways to design both embedded and stand-alone micro-credentials that complement and extend traditional degree offerings.
• Leverage technical infrastructure – Gain clarity on the digital tools, data systems, and skills-mapping platforms that support scalability and quality assurance.
• Demonstrate impact – Explore strategies to measure outcomes and effectively communicate the value of micro-credentials to students, employers and internal stakeholders.

Presenter

Anne Reed currently serves as the founding Director of Micro-Credentials at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York.
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