As part of its mission, IPD assists partner institutions by providing the following institutional services:

• Comprehensive Systems Reviews — An experienced team of adult educators identifies program strengths and recommends areas that systems can improve to increase future enrollment by focusing on the following areas:
  
  
• Student Services
• Academic Records
• Educational Resources
• Curriculum Development and Assessment
• Program Design
• Faculty Recruitment, Assessment, and Development
• Communications
• Organizational Structure
• Marketing and Enrollment (Student Recruitment)
• Accounting
• Financial Aid
  
  
• E-learning — IPD offers consultation to those institutions wishing to move individual courses and/or entire degree programs into an online delivery. In strategic sessions with the college leaders, IPD discusses ways partner institutions can provide services to students at a distance, from financial aid to resources for instruction. IPD also provides a timeline of action items and a breakdown of responsibilities for the partner institutions.
• Attrition Analyses — IPD provides targeted retention strategies for individual partner institutions.
• Community College and Corporate Articulation Agreements — IPD provides guidance and assistance in developing community college and corporate articulation agreements as well as ongoing follow-ups, servicing, training, relationship building, and development.
• New Program Designs — The designs are based on mutual goals and the market research provided by IPD.
• Student Attrition Analysis and Retention Strategy Consultation — IPD identifies strategies for retention that can be implemented readily to improve adult student retention, including data analysis, review of processes and policies, program design, and other factors.

IPD understands the challenges that higher education institutions face with regard to their ability to provide quality education to an increasingly diverse and distributed student population. In addition to changing regulatory environments and the broadening of academic communities, many institutions seek exceedingly individualized services. IPD offers valuable services to address these challenges.