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Are you prepared to recruit ‘Gen P’?

Here are three key insights for enrollment leaders about recruiting this new generation of students.
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The top 5 ways prospective graduate and adult learners are finding your programs

Our Adult Learner Recruitment team recently surveyed more than 3,800 graduate and adult learners to learn more about…
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30 Student success priorities for the 2020s

This blog explores three major trends in student success and outlines 30 student success priorities for the 2020s.
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Most strategic plans fail to set useful goals. Why these mistakes make it impossible to meet institutional objectives.

This blog outlines the importance of clear strategic goals and identifies three most common failure paths for strategic…
Higher Education Strategy Blog

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    An introduction to influencer marketing for higher education

    Just five years ago, the idea of “influencer marketing” was a fringe concept. But today, it is more than a trend—it is a valuable way that brands across industries have increased social engagement online and earned new followers, leads, and customers.

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    Is your student success strategy ready for the next decade?

    As we approach the dawn of a new decade, higher education is entering perhaps the most volatile and uncertain environment any of us have seen in our careers. Read on to understand the challenge and learn what you can do to respond.

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    Is poor channel selection undermining your parent outreach?

    How do you know which channels to use with parents? One way is to simply ask them. That’s exactly what we did in our recent survey of more than 1,500 households nationwide. Discover the five lessons on channel selection that emerged from their responses.

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    18 more ideas for engaging admitted students (from the cutting room floor)

    Across the country, the yield rates of admitted students have been declining for most institutions for years, as students apply to larger numbers of colleges and competition among schools becomes ever-fiercer. Read our blog for 18 ideas for improved yield communications.

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  • Aiming for optimum resource allocation? Prevent unintentionally small classes.

    Not all small classes are purposely designed to be small. And unintentionally very small courses represent a large investment—so they’re a particularly meaningful segment to reevaluate for optimal resource allocation. See two strategies to monitor and combat unintentionally small classes.

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  • 7 behaviors that guarantee inaccurate course capacities

    The maximum enrollment capacity, or max cap, of a class is used to calculate fill rates. But these seven common behaviors can lead to inaccurate max caps, often resulting in bottleneck courses or underfilled courses. Learn how you can ensure accurate max caps at your campus.

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  • 3 myths about online education

    Despite a growth in both the number of online and hybrid programs and student enrollments, misconceptions about the potential and limitations of these modalities persist. Read on to learn about the three myths of online education.

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  • To meet enrollment goals, take a closer look at program offerings

    Read about the three points in the enrollment pipeline where chairs and faculty can improve curriculum and pedagogy based on program-level data.

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    4 common mistakes graduate schools make in their corporate outreach strategy

    Even well-meaning plans for corporate collaborations can veer off-course, especially when it comes to initiating contact and managing ongoing communications. Whether you are creating your corporate relationship strategy for the first time or fine-tuning your existing one, here are four common outreach mistakes you'll want to avoid.

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