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Get the latest insights from EAB experts on a variety of topics and terrains from enrollment to student success to K-12 education to higher education strategy and beyond.

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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.
Enrollment Blog
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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…
Adult Education Blog
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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.
Student Success Blog
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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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  • Adult Education Blog

    3 challenges you’ll face developing new online programs—and how to meet them

    Here are a few of the hurdles academic leaders often encounter when launching online programs and strategies you can use to improve your online programs and the program development process.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog,Student Success Blog

    What 126 presidents learned from Slack about the future of work

    126 college and university presidents discussed the future of work during our Presidential Experience Lab, EAB’s signature event for college and university presidents to take inspiration from out-of-industry exemplars to consider thought-provoking concepts, lessons and trends to help shape their leadership efforts and institutional strategy.

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  • Student Success Blog

    Who could benefit the most from more academic advising?

    Our data science team has been studying how advising interactions might inflect student outcomes by analyzing data from over two dozen partner institutions in the Student Success Collaborative. Explore some of their early findings.

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  • K-12 District Leadership Blog

    2 areas of growth for independent schools amid COVID-19 recovery

    Discover two key opportunities for growth K-12 independent schools should focus on amid COVID-19 recovery.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog,Student Success Blog

    How the first-gen experience prepared CSU’s chancellor for the job

    Dr. Joseph Castro, chancellor of California State University, discusses how his experience as a first-generation student led him to pursue a career in higher education and how it has made him a more compassionate leader.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    4 lessons for higher ed chiefs of staff in improving government relations and partnerships

    To discuss this changing role and offer a look at one chief of staff’s practitioner experience, EAB hosted a working session on “The Chief of Staff’s Role in Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships” featuring an interview and Q&A with Ryan DeBoef, Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President for Governmental Relations at Missouri State University.

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  • Community College Blog,Student Success Blog

    Create a streamlined student onboarding experience

    To learn how to create a better virtual student onboarding experience, our team went secret shopping at for-profit institutions. Here are three takeaways for community college leaders.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    High schooler test names are in short supply

    Professional and Adult Education units and community colleges have long had to recruit students without the benefit of names from standardized tests. Read on to learn their savviest strategies and how to adapt them to bolster your supply of prospect names.

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  • Student Success Blog

    1 year ago, academic plans were a great idea. Now? They’re a necessity

    When students can’t access campus support staff or advisors in person, finding answers is more challenging than ever, but having a tool to guide them as they adapt their academic plans to the new reality can greatly help.

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