Higher Education Enrollment Growth Briefing
Higher Education Enrollment Growth Briefing
Eric Olsen
Enrollment Growth Briefing is a quick daily update for higher education leaders looking to grow enrollment at their college or university. Each briefing highlights a potential enrollment growth strategy or initiative, including topics such as: enrollment marketing, adult student recruitment, enrollment management, online learning, student retention, data intelligence, online course development, financial aid, academic scheduling, and more. If you’re looking for tactics, strategies, and best practices in order to build a step-by-step roadmap toward enrollment growth at your institution, this briefing is for you.
Are there legitimate higher ed use cases for NFTs?
Reported by Digital Journal, while NFTs obviously have interesting design applications that are already being explored and incorporated within art departments nationwide, Duke University has also started awarding certain educational credentials as NFTs.
Mar 18, 2022
1 min
Can added skills help supplement our traditionally low-earning majors?
Reported by The Hechinger Report, the University of Texas System is looking to pilot a program designed to provide microcredentials to students from degree programs that don’t often have an immediate salary payoff after graduation.
Mar 17, 2022
1 min
Is inflation coming for our tuition prices?
Reported by The Hechinger Report, inflation is very likely coming for our tuition prices at the same time enrollments are deeply down.
Mar 16, 2022
51 sec
Can data science help transfer students from leaving credits on the table?
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the Articulation of Credit Transfer project, coordinated by Ithaka S+R, is attempting to salvage the 43% of credits lost when students transfer to a new program and/or institution.
Mar 15, 2022
1 min
California students can swap volunteer service for college tuition
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, California’s service program, Californians for All College Corps, will provide eligible students $10,000 in exchange for 450 hours of volunteer service work a year, roughly $22/hour.
Mar 14, 2022
1 min
The pandemic which opened up online education led students to pick more locally
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a survey from Anthology showed 44% of students picked an institution closer to home than they may have before the pandemic.
Mar 11, 2022
51 sec
College completion rates have risen 3 years in a row.
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that 6-year college completion rates reached 62.2%, up 1.2 and 1.5% respectively from the previous two cohorts.
Mar 10, 2022
53 sec
Will California pilot universal basic income for college students?
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, state senator Dave Cortese is proposing $500/month payments to low-income students at three California State University campuses as a pilot experiment, spurred by findings from the San José State University’s Silicon Valley Pain Index report, which showed the food and housing insecurity of local populations, including up to 14,000 CSU students with family household income of up to $20,000.
Mar 9, 2022
1 min
The automation of higher ed communications can be expensive when they go wrong
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Central Michigan University recently notified 58 students that they were recipients of the prestigious Centralis Scholar Award that, among its benefits, includes a full-tuition scholarship.
Mar 8, 2022
1 min
Is Web3 the future of privacy in higher education or the end of it?
Reported by EdSurge, and suggested by San José State University professor Roxana Marachi, if credentialed records on the blockchain are attached to a student, does a student have any semblance of data privacy or the right to be forgotten?
Mar 7, 2022
56 sec
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