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Are you prepared to recruit ‘Gen P’?

Here are three key insights for enrollment leaders about recruiting this new generation of students.
Enrollment Blog
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The top 5 ways prospective graduate and adult learners are finding your programs

Our Adult Learner Recruitment team recently surveyed more than 3,800 graduate and adult learners to learn more about…
Adult Education Blog
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30 Student success priorities for the 2020s

This blog explores three major trends in student success and outlines 30 student success priorities for the 2020s.
Student Success Blog
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Most strategic plans fail to set useful goals. Why these mistakes make it impossible to meet institutional objectives.

This blog outlines the importance of clear strategic goals and identifies three most common failure paths for strategic…
Higher Education Strategy Blog

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  • Advancement Blog

    8 questions advancement leaders are asking right now

    Recently, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a discussion with my colleague, Mark Shreve, where we addressed some questions keeping advancement leaders up at night. From young alumni trends to developing a pipeline, the conversation was insightful, energizing, and a reminder of how much we can learn from one another.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    2024’s biggest lead generation challenges—and what they can teach us for 2025

    At EAB, we’ve worked closely with institutions navigating the complexities of lead generation in a rapidly evolving landscape. Below are five key insights from our 2024 lead generation work, designed to help you turn challenges into opportunities as you prepare for the year ahead.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Forging a Stronger Future for Higher Ed: 4 Takeaways from APLU

    What happens when you bring nearly 1,500 senior public university leaders together less than a week after a momentous election, amid what’s been called a crisis of confidence in higher education, to talk about “our public purpose”?

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  • Student Success Blog

    2024’s biggest student success lessons

    Drawing on our research, insights from hundreds of surveyed student success leaders, and institutional partnerships, we’ve identified four key lessons and actionable strategies to help your institution meet the moment and foster student success in 2025 and beyond.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    3 lead generation challenges for healthcare and nursing degree programs—and how to solve them

    Today’s healthcare industry faces massive provider shortages, putting immense pressure on degree programs to recruit new talent and deliver outcomes that address this growing crisis. In this blog, I’ll outline three key challenges that healthcare and nursing programs face when trying to generate (and convert) high-intent leads.

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  • Community College Blog

    Guided Pathways needs to evolve for 2025

    When Guided Pathways launched in 2017, many community colleges jumped right into reforming their student success strategies. In the years that followed, colleges overhauled academic advising, revamped orientation programs, and strengthened first-year experience courses. So where are we now?

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  • Adult Education Blog

    What 2024 taught us about the future of graduate and online education—and 4 predictions for 2025

    If 2024 was about spotting trends, 2025 is about turning insights into action. Institutions that take the lessons of last year seriously—and move quickly to adapt—will be the ones that succeed in this rapidly changing environment.

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  • Advancement Blog

    Making the Case for Investment

    In today’s challenging financial landscape, budget cuts are the new norm for higher education. Our data makes this abundantly clear: for every dollar cut from an advancement budget, institutions lose nearly six dollars in potential revenue.

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  • Advancement Blog

    5 tips to manage year-end stress for advancement leaders

    The final stretch of the year is one of the busiest times for advancement teams, and the holidays can add even more stress to our already full plates. With that in mind, I wanted to share a few things that have helped me manage year-end stress—both for myself and my team.

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