BestColleges

APRIL 4, 2023

Graduate student employees at the University of Michigan (U-M) went on strike at the end of March, demanding better wages, healthcare benefits, and working environments. Now, the university is suing them in the latest labor dispute to rock higher education.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 22, 2024

Discover groundbreaking strategies, gleaned from real student perspectives, to tailor the college planning experience. Unveil the keys to student engagement in this thrilling journey to revolutionize how we guide students through higher education decisions, meeting them where they are.

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Heller Admissions Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

However, please be reminded this is what worked for me and everyone’s journey into higher education is different. I mean, what can I say, I was working off momentum and under my own philosophy that if I do it all now I won’t have to do it later.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Graduate students are more likely to enroll at the program that admits them first. In today’s rapidly evolving higher education landscape, university leaders must recognize the pivotal role of efficient admissions processes in securing and maintaining competitive advantage. Which technologies should you leverage?

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Student feedback is essential for optimizing your marketing efforts. As the landscape of higher education continues to evolve, institutions are faced with the challenge of distinguishing their programs from others. New RNL research shows that graduate enrollment is normalizing , with a significant shift towards online education.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Millions of online undergraduate and graduate students may have been undercounted. Because online and graduate students are less committed to starting in the fall. The fall enrollment snapshot that we have relied on is undercounting online student by 75 percent among undergraduates and 44 percent among graduate students.

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Ruffaloni

JUNE 28, 2023

Social listening for higher education can give individuals, teams, programs, and entire institutions an advantage in multiple ways. In higher education, marketers are often monitoring industries and the economy in general, in addition to their own competitors. How do you know if you’re doing it right?

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Ruffaloni

MAY 11, 2023

Learn more and order The third edition of Strategic Enrollment Planning: A Dynamic Collaboration provides a roadmap for navigating the shifting higher education terrain. Chapter 1 sets the historical stage for higher education, exploring major trends and considering the future. What’s in the new book edition?

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Ruffaloni

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As I travel around the country talking to institutional leaders, I have realized that something has really shifted in higher education. But then “Mega Universities” and other clever, resourceful institutions began to see these adult and graduate students as the primary audience.

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BestColleges

MAY 2, 2024

"For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of hopeful students borrowed billions to attend the Art Institutes and got little but lies in return. We must continue to protect borrowers from predatory institutions — and work toward a higher education system that is affordable to students and taxpayers."

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Ruffaloni

AUGUST 30, 2023

Regardless of the common misperception that prospective graduate students do not click on digital ads, they do click, and therefore digital lead generation really does work. I wrote on just this topic in RNL’s recently released RNL 2023 Graduate Student Recruitment Report. The answer?

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This may sound simple, but higher education—and in particular graduate education—has been guilty of ignoring market trends and expectations, and then applying engagement and communication strategies that fit the academic environment rather than the needs and demands of prospective students. Schedule consultation.

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Ruffaloni

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Programs need to serve students whose expectations have changed dramatically. Earlier this month, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released their annual “Graduate Enrollment and Degrees 2012-2022” report. The headline in Inside Higher Education was that graduate enrollment contracted by 4.7

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In an Inside Higher Education story one of the authors positioned this discrepancy as one of the effects of the strong job market. Enrollment leaders can check if they are meeting these expectations by reading our 2023 Graduate Student Recruitment Report. But should enrollment leaders be concerned?

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In fact, according to RNL’s 2023 E-Expectations Trend Report , college and university websites are the single most utilized resource for students—and 58 percent of undergraduate students use search engines to find a college’s website. We can talk about how we can optimize your pages in search.

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Peterson's Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Cost Savings: Earning college credits through AP exams can translate into significant cost savings for students and their families. By reducing the number of credits needed to graduate, students can potentially shorten their time in college, thereby lowering tuition expenses and alleviating financial burdens.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 21, 2024

Going to graduate school can be an excellent way to increase your career prospects, advance your career, and boost your salary. That number you just read is the average debt balance among graduate students with federal student loans in 2023, according to the Education Data Initiative.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 19, 2024

This is the first higher education institution OpenAI has collaborated with. A BestColleges survey found that 43% of college students have used ChatGPT or a similar AI application, and 61% think AI tools like ChatGPT will become the new normal.

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 18, 2024

Professionally, you may have set a goal to better understand the markets (students) your college or university serves, how those markets are changing, and what new markets that may be available to you. Is your core market(s) experiencing shift if population composition by race/ethnicity? Are the demographics changing in adjacent markets?

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BestColleges

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The college is accessible to Pell-eligible or undocumented students and will allow them to graduate without debt and without paying out-of-pocket costs. Students who complete the associate degree can go on to earn a bachelor's degree from the university for less than $10,000.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Undocumented students are currently unable to hold campus jobs due to federal law. There are an estimated 83,000 undocumented college students in California. A proposed bill in California would allow public higher education institutions in the state to hire undocumented students.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

New Frontier in Higher Education Many colleges and universities remain divided on how to tackle the possibilities of AI. Many institutions announced AI-focused programs including the University of Southern California and Purdue University.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Graduate student workers at the California Institute of Technology have voted to form a union. The union is made up of graduate and postdoctoral researchers, the first time in labor history both groups have voted at the same time to unionize. The vote was passed with 77% approval for graduate workers and 83% for postdocs.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 27, 2023

Every aspect of new student enrollment must be considered: traditional new students, transfer students, student athletes, nontraditional or working adults, graduate students, and unique populations that your institution can serve. We give you the road map and your guide towards a strategic enrollment plan.

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Ruffaloni

AUGUST 30, 2023

Every year, I look forward to the release of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report from QM and Eduventures, which shares results from a national survey of chief online officers (COOs) across higher education. for graduate students), this figure is still striking.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 5, 2023

Higher education is not exempt from strike action. Higher education is no exception. In November 2022, nearly 50,000 academic workers in the University of California (UC) system voted to authorize the largest strike in higher education. Will classes be canceled? This is a possibility.

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As college students embrace artificial intelligence, higher education can play a pivotal role in closing the AI skills gap. College Students Embrace AI BestColleges surveyed 1,000 current undergraduate and graduate students on their perspectives of AI in higher education and found that most students used AI in some form.

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Graduate student workers and postdoctoral scholars at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have filed to form a union. The UAW welcomes Graduate Student Workers and Postdocs at Caltech into the UAW family," Mike Miller, director of UAW Region 6, said in the release.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The tool and others like it threaten the status quo in higher education —from how students complete assignments to how professors design courses and, now, the college admissions process. In fact, 62% of millennials versus 39% of Gen Z students say they would have turned to AI.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 16, 2023

The History of HBCUs in Michigan As the first and only HBCU in Michigan, Pensole Lewis College fulfills an important role in the state's history of higher education. For nearly a century, the school has provided career training, academic community, and professional connections for Black students in Michigan.

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Ruffaloni

MAY 24, 2023

Talk with our graduate and online enrollment experts Ask for a free consultation with us. We’ll help you assess your market and develop the optimal strategies for your prospective graduate students and online learners. Campus culture Surrounding all of this work—and not to be minimized—is the influence of campus culture.

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BestColleges

MARCH 17, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT have professors fretting over the future of higher education. Meanwhile, college students may be wondering: Can AI help on school assignments? Regardless of whether they use AI currently, most college students agree that AI is here to stay. And if it does, is it cheating?

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s easy to get confused by the acronyms, but MSIs play a critical role in higher education. MSIs are academic institutions that take deliberate steps to recruit, enroll, and retain students from underserved populations. MSIs were created as a response to support these students and increase their access to higher education.

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Ivy Central

MAY 5, 2023

William and Mary is a remarkable institution that has been at the forefront of American higher education for over three centuries. The university is known for its strong liberal arts curriculum and excellent graduate programs in business, law, education, and public policy.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Talent Strategy is Perhaps the Most Important Leadership Imperative for Higher Ed Today Following that thread, EAB debuted our initial research into the myriad of talent challenges facing higher education leaders at EAB’s IgnitED event in August 2022.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

These data bring us a lot closer to what is really happening in higher education: a consistent focus on the importance of flexibility. million undergraduate students and more than 440,000 graduate students missing from the fall census data.

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BestColleges

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Thank you to our loyal and dedicated elected officials who are champions for higher education and for the communities they serve." Texas State began making new investments in the graduate and research space in anticipation of a favorable Proposition 5 outcome. students $5.4 The university will yield $22.3

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