For over eight years, Drake ITS has paid for a campus subscription to Lynda.com to provide campus access to online self-paced training for software programs like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite.

Our most recent three-year contract with Lynda.com is expiring at the end of this fiscal year on June 30. We began negotiations for a new contract in mid-January and despite our best efforts, we were unable to successfully negotiate a long-term agreement that meets our budgetary needs. Lynda.com continued to quote an annual fee that was substantially more money each year than our current fees, and more than our budget can absorb.

As a result, ITS signed a one-year extension of our current subscription. After June 30, 2019, we will be dropping our campus subscription to Lynda.com.

Over the next year, we will be investigating other options. We hope to have a new online training program in place on July 1, 2019. We will be requesting feedback from faculty, staff and students as we choose a replacement for Lynda.com.

If you have questions regarding this decision or are interested in volunteering to review other options, please email me at carla.herling@drake.edu.

—Carla Herling, ITS