Content Type: Daily Briefing
This school grew enrollment 350% in 10 years. Here’s how.
Six colleges are supplementing marketing efforts with other recruitment tactics—and are experiencing rapid enrollment growth as a result.
Why Gen Z students prefer YouTube over textbooks
Nearly half of all Gen Zers spend at least three hours every day on YouTube, according to a survey by Pearson and The Harris Poll.
What the most productive & happy people do every 60 to 90 minutes at work
Are you doing it?
How Arizona Western College made first-gen support networks more visible
Two-thirds of their students are first-gen—and 40% of their staff are, too.
Why 26 college presidents toured Zappos—and what they took away
Four lessons for higher ed from the customer service giant.
One overlooked reason more students are seeking counseling
Mental health professionals argue that evolving attitudes about mental health may partially explain soaring campus counseling demands.
How one university eliminated $4.7 million from their deferred maintenance backlog
The facilities team gained the provost’s support to demolish five buildings by using a cost-benefit analysis.
Students in this program are 2X more likely to have positive attitudes about college
Faculty-mentored research at community colleges isn’t the norm. But a new study suggests that it could have profound effects on student outcomes.
5 questions that suppress innovation
Everyone has the ability to be creative. But sometimes, we convince ourselves otherwise, argues author Warren Berger.
Why enrollment at women’s colleges is on the rise
Women’s colleges across the U.S. are seeing a bump in application numbers—and enrollments. And many speculate that it may have something to do with the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.