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Looking at Student “Grit” and Resilience – from Recruitment to Retention

by Paul Marthers

Series: Managing the Student LifecycleThis new series convenes expert perspectives on student success and predictive analytics. We hope to empower enrollment managers, student affairs professionals, deans, and faculty to think deeper about their student data, predictors of success, and managing the student lifecycle holistically from recruitment to retention to completion.Earlier in this series:Improving Student Success […]

One Stop: How One Institution Transitioned to a High-Performing Student Services Model

by Melissa Padfield, Norma Rodenburg

Photo by the University of Alberta. The Student Connect centre. The Challenge Run-around, duplication of services, confusion for students, inconsistency of service delivery–these are just some of the challenges that come about as a result of the complex bureaucracies in higher education. As student services professionals, we all do our best to support our students, […]

Graduate Enrollment Marketing: Digital Tactics That Work

by Daniel Fusch

Marketing graduate degree programs is both an art and a science, and we wanted to take a deep look at who is doing this well — and how they’re doing it. In this series of four articles (you’re reading the third), we ask an expert panel four questions to explore the changing landscape of graduate […]

Graduate Enrollment Marketing: Non-Digital Tactics That Work

by Daniel Fusch

Marketing graduate degree programs is both an art and a science, and we wanted to take a deep look at who is doing this well — and how they’re doing it. In this series of four articles (you’re reading the fourth), we ask an expert panel four questions to explore the changing landscape of graduate […]

Presidential Dialogues: Leading in Complex Times

by Daniel Fusch

How do you confront tradition-bound institutions and mobilize campuses to move forward? Recently, we gathered five leaders from very different institutions to discuss this issue in-depth. We know that change on any scale is difficult, so how do these leaders motivate and mobilize their campuses to move forward, especially knowing that change comes slowly? How […]

Habits of Highly Effective Higher-Ed Professionals

by Steven Riccio, Ed.D., SPHR, PCC

Higher education does a great job educating others, but seldom do we work on ourselves. We don’t take the time to ‘sharpen the saw.’ As a result, colleges and universities are filled with very sharp people who possess rather dull blades. In a classic video vignette entitled “Big Rocks,” from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, […]

What You Need to Know Before Pursuing a Center for Innovation

by Daniel Fusch

Transcript of the Interview We interviewed Dr. Stephen Whitehead, the associate provost of innovation at California University of Pennsylvania. A lot of institutions have shared their curiosity with us about how to launch a center for innovation, and we wanted to ask one of the foremost experts what his peers should consider first. Stephen Whitehead […]

Activity Based Costing: What’s the Return on it?

by Len Brazis, Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis,Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Here at Embry-Riddle, the adoption of Activity Based Costing (ABC) principles has been an evolutionary process that began on one of our residential campuses in the Fall of 2010. That campus had just finished a fiscal year with a negative operating margin of $3.3 […]

Report: The Skills Future Higher-Ed Leaders Need to Succeed

by Daniel Fusch

How do you lead when there is no map? When the territory is unknown? The swift pace of change and the complexity of the challenges facing our colleges and universities is immense, and is testing the abilities of our institutions’ leaders. The playbook of the past does not offer a sustainable path forward for all […]

What Story Does the Pell Grant Data Tell?

Series: Changing How We Understand the Market<In this series, we analyze current enrollment and demographics data, uncovering stories that challenge how institutions often understand their marketplace—or that shed new light on emerging trends. We want to encourage a deeper look at the implications of today’s marketplace data. We hope that you will share these stories […]