CAEL and Bellevue University’s Human Capital Lab are collaborating on research with the goal of helping corporate executives get a better financial return on their investment in tuition reimbursement expenditures. The first project looks at the actual price corporations pay for a semester credit hour of accredited degree seeking education. The results of this study will be published before the end of the year and will provide corporate decision makers with data and analyses to aid resource allocation decisions of a company’s human capital investments. All joint work will be published on the WEB site www.corporatelearning.com.

A second research project is being launched to understand the policies, practices and procedures companies are using to administer their tuition reimbursement investments. These policies are generally managed by the benefits operation of the human resources department. The goal is to create a data base to help understand the range of policies. The analysis will include recommendations on what attributes of these policies relate to employee motivation and behavior.

Other developments in the research affiliation between CAEL and Bellevue University include the discussion of the immense value of the CAEL data base in assisting Dorothy Martin at Verizon Wireless in her ground breaking work to be published in her article titled: “ “ to appear in CLO magazine. In addition, the third book by Dr. Michael Echols in he Human Capital Investment series titled: “Creating Value with Human Capital Investment” will be available November 1, 2007.