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Building a business comes with challenges. Connecting with emerging talent can open up new opportunities for growth. As a proud Ecosystem Partner and sponsor of the 2026 Startup Canada Tour, Riipen looks forward to joining entrepreneurs and small business owners at the final event of the series. Stop by our booth to meet Riipen's Employer Sales Managers, Riipen's Employer Sales Managers, Vikrant Pratap and Sumandeep Singh, and explore how programs like Level UP, Advance Ontario, and FuturePath connect businesses with emerging talent through real-world projects. Attending the final stop? Visit our booth to meet the team and explore how your business can get involved. Learn more and register: https://hubs.li/Q04Bp2rW0   #StartupCanada #Entrepreneurship #WorkBasedLearning

How can Canadian businesses tap into emerging talent to support growth and innovation? Riipen is heading to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's 2026 AGM & Convention, taking place October 28 and 29 in Victoria, BC, where chamber executives and business leaders from across the country will come together to explore the challenges and opportunities shaping Canadian business. Tom Elson, Riipen's Manager, Employer Sales, will be at booth #14 to share how programs like Level UP and FuturePath connect businesses with emerging talent through real-world projects that support business needs while helping learners build valuable work experience. Attending the convention? Stop by our booth to meet Tom and explore how your business can get involved. Learn more and register: https://hubs.ly/Q04BnWxv0   #WorkBasedLearning #EmergingTalent #CanadianBusiness

Canada doesn't need to start from scratch to strengthen its workforce and improve business productivity. Work-integrated learning is already helping students gain valuable experience while giving businesses access to fresh perspectives and talent to innovate and grow. In a new Toronto Sun op-ed, Riipen Co-Founder and CEO Dana Stephenson and Polytechnics Canada CEO Sarah Watts-Rynard make the case for building on what's working. Their message: Strengthen proven programs through permanent funding, expand access, and measure outcomes to ensure these investments deliver meaningful value for Canadian learners and businesses. Read the full op-ed: https://hubs.li/Q04BJPDr0   #WorkIntegratedLearning #ExperientialLearning

New date. Same important conversation! Our upcoming webinar with Tyton Partners is now scheduled for Tuesday, November 10, at 1:30 PM ET, so there's still time to join us! We're proud to partner with Tyton Partners - Strategy Consulting, whose research and expertise provide valuable insights into the challenges, priorities, and opportunities shaping higher education. Together, we're bringing research and practical solutions into a single conversation: How can institutions expand access to meaningful, career-connected learning beyond traditional internships? Join Catherine Shaw, Associate Partner and Head of Innovation & Delivery Excellence at Tyton Partners, and Jennifer Albrecht, Riipen's SVP, Revenue & Partnerships, for: From Degree to Employment: Connecting Learning with Real Work Experience We'll explore what students expect from their degrees, the challenges institutions face in delivering career-connected learning, and how shorter, employer-connected experiences can help more students graduate with skills and experience they can demonstrate to employers. 📅 New date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026 ⏰ Time: 1:30 PM ET 💻 Location: Online Your institution won't want to miss this conversation. There's still time to secure your spot! Register today: https://hubs.li/Q04BL9zF0 #HigherEducation #CareerReadiness #StudentSuccess #ExperientialLearning #WorkIntegratedLearning Tyton Partners is a strategy consulting and investment banking firm focused on the education sector.

A clearer picture of your institution’s career-connected learning capacity doesn’t have to take hours. The Career-Connected Capacity Check is a quick assessment designed to help higher education leaders identify where their institution stands and where gaps may exist between commitment and capacity. In just a few minutes, you can start examining the structures, barriers, and opportunities shaping your ability to deliver career-connected learning at scale. A small investment of time. A valuable starting point for a much bigger institutional conversation. ⏱️ Take the quick assessment: https://hubs.li/Q04BgRXS0 #HigherEducation #ExperientialLearning #CareerReadiness #StudentSuccess #AcademicLeadership

Building strong employer partnerships is one thing. Turning those partnerships into meaningful work-based learning opportunities for students at scale is another. This week at the 2026 Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education, presented by UPCEA and AACRAO, Dr. Mara "Red" Woody, Ed.D., Riipen’s Director, Strategic Partnerships, joined Steve Jurch of the ACCT (Association of Community College Trustees) to explore how institutions are building employer partnerships, designing workforce-aligned programs, and implementing work-based learning through the Workforce Futures Accelerator Project. Mara also joined leaders from Education Design Lab and the UW-Stout Polytechnic for a workshop on connecting credentials, employer engagement, and work-based learning in response to an evolving labor market. What stood out across both discussions was the importance of keeping learners at the center of workforce program design. From the University of Wisconsin-Stout's work on employer-responsive programs and more accessible credit for prior learning, to Education Design Lab's learner-first approach, the sessions highlighted how institutions are finding new ways to balance workforce needs with student success. Steve Jurch also emphasized how the Workforce Futures Accelerator supports both colleges and learners, an important consideration for building programs that can succeed over the long term. Thank you to ACCT, UPCEA, AACRAO, and everyone who connected with Mara and Riipen's Directors of Partnerships, Dr. Jillian Murray and Erin Stine, at Convergence. If your institution is exploring how to strengthen employer partnerships and expand access to work-based learning, connect with our team: https://hubs.li/Q04BlNfp0   #Credovation #WorkBasedLearning #HigherEducation #EmployerEngagement

Time management is more than getting everything done on time. It is how people make thoughtful choices when priorities compete: deciding what needs attention first, planning around deadlines, adjusting when circumstances change, and communicating when timelines are at risk. For students, time management is a skill they can build, reflect on, and use to prioritize competing responsibilities without losing sight of their commitments. For educators, it becomes easier to teach, observe, and assess when students practice time management in real-world project contexts. For employers, it helps show how emerging talent prioritizes responsibilities, manages shifting demands, and keeps work moving without losing sight of deadlines. Real project experience gives students a place to practice time management with real priorities, real deadlines, and real people depending on their work. Read more here: https://hubs.li/Q04z_8q60 #CareerReadiness #TimeManagement #ExperientialLearning #WorkIntegratedLearning #Riipen

Employers, let talented students help take data analysis off your plate. Many organizations have data they could learn from, but not always the time or capacity to analyze it. Through Riipen, employers can turn data needs into real project opportunities for students. Students can support data analysis, reporting, trend identification, research synthesis, dashboard planning, or other projects that help teams make sense of information and identify useful next steps. As Charity White of California Black Health Network shared through a Riipen-supported student project, student support helped uncover meaningful insights in the data and turn them into clearer next steps for the team. Have data your team has not had time to analyze? 👉 Learn how Riipen can help: https://hubs.li/Q04sWdSs0  #DataAnalysis #EmployerEngagement #WorkIntegratedLearning #ExperientialLearning #Riipen

What should a student have learned, experienced, and be able to demonstrate by the time they graduate? Degree completion matters. But as students look toward employment, they’re also asking whether their education has given them meaningful opportunities to apply what they know in professional settings. On October 22, Riipen and Tyton Partners - Strategy Consulting are coming together to explore how institutions can strengthen the connection between academic learning, real work experience, and employment in our webinar, “From degree to employment: Connecting learning with real work experience.” Drawing on Tyton Partners’ Driving Toward a Degree 2026 research and Riipen’s Closing the Capacity Gap research, we’ll examine: ✔️ What student success can look like beyond degree completion. ✔️ How real work experience can support the transition from education to employment. ✔️ Where institutions can focus investment to strengthen career-connected learning. ✔️ What needs to change to make these experiences more accessible and scalable? ✔️ How institutions can build evidence of progress. Joining the conversation with Catherine Shaw, Associate Partner and Head of Innovation & Delivery Excellence at Tyton Partners, and Jennifer Albrecht, Riipen’s Senior Vice President, Revenue & Partnerships, on October 22 at 2pm ET. If connecting a degree more intentionally to what comes next for students is part of your institution’s priorities, you’ll want to join us. 🔗 Register here: https://hubs.li/Q04zDyCg0 #HigherEducation #StudentSuccess #CareerReadiness #ExperientialLearning #WorkIntegratedLearning Tyton Partners is a strategy consulting and investment banking firm focused on the education sector.

Stay informed on the research, trends, and ideas shaping higher education and career-connected learning with The Riipen Report: Campus Insider. Each edition brings together practical resources, platform updates, and insights for academic leaders and educators working to connect learning, experience, and career outcomes. Read the latest edition: https://hubs.li/Q04yTvWG0 Subscribe to The Riipen Report: https://hubs.li/Q04yTvZx0 #TheRiipenReport #HigherEducation #CareerConnectedLearning #ExperientialLearning