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Stemming Summer Melt and Improving Admissions Yield and Social Media for Universities

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Targeted initiatives aligned with students’ evolving expectations can help seal the deal for these undecided students while promoting longer-term retention and stemming “summer melt” – students paying a deposit yet not attending a chosen college when fall comes.

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How will we measure student success in the 2020s?

EAB

We are also in a moment of extreme transition as we emerge from the pandemic and struggle to understand its ripple effects. These researchers pioneered and popularized the idea that retention is driven by “ student engagement.” As these “lineages” have evolved, so have the metrics we use to find opportunities and track progress.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Key performance indicators can include tracking student retention rates, graduation rates, and academic performance.

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6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet. Increasing Retention Rates for Black and Latino Men. Go to resource center.

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HBCU Presidents Are Leaving at a Rapid Clip – Here’s Why

BestColleges

The History and Importance of HBCUs HBCUs were established to provide educational opportunities for Black people, specifically formerly enslaved people who were denied access to higher education institutions that were exclusively white. Despite limited resources, HBCUs continue to enroll, retain, and graduate students.

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Best Online Supply Chain Management Programs

BestColleges

A higher return for your investment results in a higher score for this school. Our Methodology Medium Retention Rate 75% Acceptance Rate 95% Students Enrolled 23,640 Institution Type Public Percent Online Enrollment 36% Percentage of all students who are enrolled online.