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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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    4 characteristics of equitable predictive models

    Predictive modeling in higher education offers exciting opportunities to improve decision-making. With thoughtful planning and implementation, modeling can help your institution foster equitable outcomes. Learn 4 characteristics of equitable predictive models to ensure your institution's modeling supports your equity goals.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    3 common challenges with academic program assessment

    EAB's Financial Sustainability Collaborative has worked with over 100 schools to help them structure their academic program assessment process, and that experience has provided us with some observations about the common challenges confronting schools undertaking academic program assessment.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    3 lessons to inform your test-optional enrollment strategy in 2022

    At the start of the pandemic, many schools found themselves adopting a test-optional policy practically overnight. As someone who’s worked in just about every type of enrollment job – from being head of enrollment, to director of admissions processing, to a financial aid administrator – I know that this is no easy feat. Going test-optional has wide-reaching implications for your enrollment operations and strategy.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Increasing campus climate survey response rate

    Bowling Green State University's most recent campus climate survey conducted had only a 9% response rate from students. Discover how they are planning they're next survey launch to increase responses and guide action on sexual violence prevention.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    How can universities promote access to wellness resources for students?

    Leaders at Drake University and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay investigated how universities can promote access to wellness resources to all students. Discover what they found in their research at the micro-level (classroom setting) and the mezzo-level (university-wide).

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Conducting a diversity and equity campus climate survey

    East Tennessee State University launched a campus climate survey to assess feelings about diversity and equity. Learn how the survey helped inform and improve policies and practices at ETSU.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    How to communicate financial information to Gen Z students

    Communicating with Gen Z students about how to be financially responsible in college is as elusive as booming budgets in higher ed. Discover how the University of Colorado Denver and Minnesota State University Moorhead approach financial communication with students.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    Finding and recruiting adult learners

    Universities throughout the country are facing the same issue—a dramatic decline in the number of high school graduates projected in 2025. COVID-19 has created additional enrollment instability and undergraduate enrollment is being negatively impacted at many institutions while there is growth in online and graduate programs which is accelerating the 2025 forecast.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Enhancing the attractiveness of joint undergraduate and graduate degrees

    The impending demographic cliff is creating undergraduate enrollment challenges, especially for institutions in the northeast, where my university is located. One strategy to offset the expected revenue decline is growing graduate enrollment, and an institution’s existing undergraduate students are a fruitful market to target. By saving time and money, joint undergraduate and graduate degrees are an attractive way to keep strong students on campus for an additional year.

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