Jon Rice

Jon Rice is a Director of Research Advisory Services at EAB, where he provides strategic counsel to presidents, provosts, boards, and senior leadership teams. He has advised leaders at more than 300 universities, colleges, and schools worldwide and regularly delivers keynotes, executive workshops, board presentations, and strategy sessions. Jon’s work focuses on how institutions adapt their strategy as market conditions, learner expectations, and technological change reshape education. Working across academic affairs, enrollment, and advancement, Jon combines EAB research with practitioner experience to help leadership teams identify opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, and build alignment around a course of action.

Jon brings more than 15 years of experience across higher education, strategy, and communications. Before joining EAB, he spent nearly a decade at the University of San Francisco, where he held progressively senior enrollment leadership roles, most recently as director of admission. Earlier in his career, Jon supported communications and public affairs work for the United Nations Foundation, Ipsos Public Affairs, and USA Today.

Jon holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies with an emphasis in Global Politics from Pitzer College, a member of The Claremont Colleges, and a Master of Arts in Professional Communication with a concentration in Strategic Communication from the University of San Francisco. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea through the U.S. Department of State.

Raised in the Washington, DC area, Jon now lives in San Francisco and enjoys traveling, exploring California, and seeking out the best local cuisine wherever he goes.