Barbara’s Participation on the Florida Council of Student Affairs
I was honored to sponsor the Florida Council of Student Affairs luncheon at their State Meeting in Tallahassee on Thursday, February 11, 2010, and serve as a guest speaker during that event. Tonjua Williams, PhD, Vice President, Academic & Student Affairs, St. Petersburg College had invited me to speak to this assembly of student affairs leaders from all 28 state and community colleges and some private institutions. Given the current economic conditions in Florida (and worldwide, of course), I thought they might be very interested in the topic Channel Partner Revenue Opportunities for Alaris Financial Literacy eLearning.
I presented them an opportunity to do well while doing good, by becoming a channel partner for our best-in-class Alaris™ Financial Literacy eLearning curricula. Their students, alumni and employees can benefit from the information and skills they gain in handling their finances, from overall budgeting principles to the details of responsible management of student loans, credit cards, identity protection, and other lifelong financial matters. The colleges and universities benefit from the channel partner relationship in offering the Alaris™ curricula in two ways – by receiving up to 50% of the revenue for each course taken and by association with our outreach to the disabled community through our involvement with the 2010 Real Economic Impact Tour (REI Tour) and our Credit Management curriculum’s compliance with accessibility Rule 508.
Our potential channel partners were interested in the options of hosting the Alaris™ curricula themselves or using Sealund and Associates’ hosting service , and they warmly received the mentor-driven approach of the courses. Their enthusiastic feedback included many expected issues and one very pleasant surprise. Everyone agreed that students, alumni and employees all need financial literacy education. They saw the benefit of the revenue sharing opportunity.
The pleasant surprise was an invitation from Geoffrey Fortunato (Dean of Students at Seminole State College of Florida) to speak to the FACC in May in Jacksonville, because he liked the Alaris™ curricula concept and channel partner opportunity so much that he thought the 120 student development practitioners from the Florida College system would also be very interested. I’m looking forward eagerly to speaking with them, too!
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