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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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  • Building a university-wide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion scorecard

    As is this case for many institutions of higher education, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are values that we strive for as an institution, and to instill in our students. Institutions do a large amount of work in this area but have little data on the effectiveness of each intervention as we aspire to enact change.

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  • Creating an internal DEI scorecard for best practices

    These scorecards tend to provide to the public demographic data about the makeup of the student, faculty and staff populations as well as graduation and retention data that is disaggregated by demographic. These data provide a critical starting point for examining equity gaps at institutions of higher education. However, these data don’t measure the full experience of undergraduate students during their undergraduate careers.

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  • Aligning graduate tuition structure with strategic goals

    Like many institutions, Mines’ is facing budget pressures and increasing reliance on undergraduate tuition revenues. We are seeking out alternative revenue streams in order to diversify our revenue profile. Growing enrollment in graduate non-thesis master’s and online graduate programs is one of these potential revenue streams and part of our strategic plan.

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    Strategic academic change: planning with purpose

    In terms of higher education at large, if our campuses are aligning our academic programs with institutional values and goals, then our graduates will be equipped for 21st century citizenship. Additionally, the concepts of knowledge sharing and evidence-based academic planning will allow for targeted resource investment in the academic experience with the end goal being an enhanced overall value of the degree.

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  • Yielding the partnership pipeline

    Many underrepresented minority students are inadequately prepared for higher education by high school graduation. This preparedness gap, which is greatly influenced by social inequities and other barriers, creates a pipeline problem for selective colleges and universities to increase underrepresented minority (URM) student enrollment. Due to this pipeline problem there is a shortage of qualified URM candidates for selective institutions.

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    3 ways technology can help overcome financial barriers

    Financial pressure is the top reason that students leave college. Learn 3 ways technology can help overcome financial barriers to student success.

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  • Why the right time is now to invest in renewable energy production on my campus

    A public university has two major operating revenues, if one of them doesn’t increase over time……well you get it. Budgets have been, and always will be in my experience, “tight.” It makes it difficult to gain approval of expenditures that are perceived to not be in the “here and now.” With this knowledge and having worked the duration of my career in my university’s finance division, naturally one of my first thoughts when evaluating a project of any kind is value proposition……does it work financially?

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    Closing the equity gap in retention and persistence rates

    While conducting my research I found many risk factors that can influence the equity gap including pre-college (financial factors, college prep), student experience (feelings of belonging, college transition), and academics (advising, rigor). Multiple resources noted that peer-to-peer mentoring programs increase first year engagement and ease both the academic and social transition to college.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Moving the university’s transformational plan into action

    While the evolution of strategic planning has continued, so too has the lack of strategic execution. Two primary reasons why strategic plans fail are an organization’s lack of commitment and vision or failure to identify and measure appropriate metrics of success.

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