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The real demographic crisis isn't national—it's regional

For years, enrollment leaders have planned around the long-anticipated ‘demographic cliff’ of 2025, which is when we expect…
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What are students asking university chatbots?

Discover how student chatbot data from EAB’s Navigate360 reveals real student needs—and how AI can close support gaps…
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What higher ed can learn from these successful academic program revitalizations

Three schools demonstrate how to successfully revamp academic programs—and which strategies can be used to strengthen your own…
Higher Education Strategy Blog
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Preparing for the end of Grad PLUS: 4 strategies to rethink graduate cost and aid

For enrollment leaders interested in building out their financial aid strategy for graduate and professional programs, here are…
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    Launching a first-of-its-kind online program? Use these two strategies.

    Even before the pandemic, enrollment in online graduate programs was increasing 6.7% on average annually. And during the COVID-19, enrollment in online graduate programs has surged, increasing 63% from 2019 to 2020. This growing demand for online delivery is pushing some leaders of graduate and adult-serving programs to adapt programs historically only offered in-person for online or hybrid formats.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    6 proven ways to boost your college enrollment

    From our extensive testing, we've identified six tried-and-true college enrollment best practices proven to work.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Building the “FirstGen Presidential Fellows” program at Bentley University

    Discover how Bentley University launched the "FirstGen Presidential Fellows" program to support first-generation students from under-represented groups.

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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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  • 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

    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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