Season 3, Episode 3: Jeff McCarthy, Dean, Faculty of Continuing Education

About Today's Show

In today's episode, we speak with the dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education, Jeff McCarthy.

These days the need to always be learning is more relevant than ever. And a really good option is continuing education, especially if you need very specific skills in a hurry. Seneca College has one of the largest continuing education departments in the country, and is the choice of thousands (tens of thousands, actually) for "upskilling" and "re-skilling" during these competitive times.

Some quick facts about Seneca's Continuing Education program:

• Seneca College Continuing Education offers over 1000 courses, and there's over 150 programs.
• There are approximately 50,000 registrations per year.
• Seneca College Continuing Education offers diplomas, certificates, graduate certificates, and even degrees.

Also in this episode, we talk about:

1. Who is the "typical" continuing education student.

2. What are the most popular courses

3. What new programs have just launched.

About Today's Guest, Jeff McCarthy

Jeff has spent over 20 years in education in a variety of capacities, from teaching, to sales, to management and higher education administration until becoming Dean of Faculty of Education at Seneca in 2016.

Some recent news regarding Seneca's Continuing Education program, is the Fall 2019 launch of Seneca's Centre for Graduate and Professional Studies and Seneca's first Downtown Campus, located in the heart of Toronto's financial district.

He regularly participates in Seneca's United Way and Campaign 4 Students drives…Perhaps most notably for the year he and Helix Director, Chris Dudley(who was a guest on last season's show) shaved their heads for the United Way, raising over $4,000). Jeff is also an active volunteer in his local community having coached over 32 youth hockey and soccer teams.

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