Successful decision-making and strategy sessions will benefit from knowing the six organizational forms covered in this piece which seem to capture the continuum of institutions of higher education and assorted training sites. The authors provide a 2 x 3 matrix that they use to help lay the framework for this study. The first factor, 'Delivery Site of Educational Service or Product,' basically is either place bound delivery sites or those not constrained by place. The second broad factor, 'Organizational Structure,' is subdivided into internal, stable, and dynamic networks. Extended institutions such as the University of Phoenix, and virtual institutions are not bound by place to deliver educational services.
Internal networks use resources in-house while dynamic networks mainly outsource.
Colleges and universities, for example, that use their own faculty and staff to create all distance education programs would be examples of internal networks. Stable networks blend these extremes. A number of modern-day examples are subsequently described and classified into further refinements such as organizational mission, type of control, principle clientele, and educational product or service. A section of the article makes a number of valuable suggestions to enrollment managers involved with newer forms of education delivery. Staffing relationships in these organizations may need to be short-term so as to fluidly move with the changing winds of the marketplace.