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The Perfect Storm

Spark Consulting

I’d like to share some sobering statistics about higher education and employment: In the United States, students graduate from college with an average debt load of nearly $29,000. In the United States in 2015, 32% of employers reported. By 2020, 65% of all jobs in the United States will require some.

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Trends in Education-to-Employment: Part I

Association Success

The more I learn, the more I am convinced that associations have an important role to play in defining skills and competencies and in providing education to make a dent in the wicked problem we are being presented with in the United States. Since writing the white paper, we have actually seen the trends we highlighted accelerate.

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Health Partnership Comes Up With Safer Opioid Prescription Strategies

Associations Now

“Both organizations agreed that the goal was not to create or act as a safety event reporting system but rather to bring together relevant data from multiple sources to inform strategies to address a high-priority safety issue,” the organizations said in the white paper [PDF].

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Going Global in Trust-Challenged Times

Associations Now

Global trust in institutions is at a low ebb, which presents a challenge for associations reaching beyond the United States. On one hand, it’s fact for many associations that the path to revenue growth via meetings, credentialing, and other products increasingly leads outside the United States.

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Why aren’t members opening your emails?

Higher Logic

It’s easy to fill your writing with jargon and fluff -- whether it’s a subject line or a white paper -- especially if you’re murky on the message. Especially since it’s sent from the president of the United States. Here are a few tips for how to capture your members’ attention with only one line: 1. Keep it short.

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Caribbean Tourism Group Tries Leveraging Cuba’s Growth

Associations Now

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), which represents most of the tourism hotspots around the Caribbean, is speaking up about the return to normalcy between the United States and Cuba.

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With Deadline in Rearview, EMV Expansion Still Putters Along

Associations Now

Despite an October 1 deadline that changed fraud liability requirements for companies that accept credit cards in the United States, the EMV format isn’t everywhere yet. The EMV Migration Forum recently released a white paper outlining ways that tips can be included in an EMV environment. Getting the U.S.