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Get the latest insights from EAB experts on a variety of topics and terrains from enrollment to student success to K-12 education to higher education strategy and beyond.

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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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  • Student Success Blog

    3 strategies to engage faculty in your student success initiatives

    I can’t tell you how many times a provost has asked me, “But what do I do about my faculty?” as they are thinking about rolling out a new student success initiative. Frankly, it’s a fair question. Despite all the investments we’ve made in student success over the past few years, few campuses have fully engaged their faculty when reorganizing to better support students. It doesn’t have to be this way, and we are beginning to see a change.

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  • Community College Blog,Student Success Blog

    How three simple community college onboarding changes turned into $70K

    At Danville Community College, leaders uncovered three barriers facing students upon entry, and worked with EAB to streamline the student experience. The result? An increase in applicant-to-enrollee conversion in the first semester alone, resulting in nearly $70K in additional revenue—just from better front-end processes.

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  • Student Success Blog

    How one advising leader saw a 600% increase in student responses

    Words surrounding email performance—like “open rates,” “clickthrough rates,” and “conversion rates”—are not part of most academics’ vocabulary. But digital marketing best practices can provide measurable value to your student communications.

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  • Community College Blog

    Confessions of a community college secret shopper

    In coordination with EAB members across the country, our research team conducted ‘secret shopping’ exercises at colleges in 25 states and catalogued over 800 hours observing and role-playing the new student experience.

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  • Student Success Blog

    What success means to your students, in their own words

    EAB researchers went directly to over 200 students and asked how they conceive of success. Their answers surprised, delighted, and moved us—and helped us focus our research and development agenda for the upcoming year.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    How to make academic programs attractive to prospective students

    Learn how one institution identified a program refreshment opportunity to boost their competitiveness through naming and specialization benchmarking.

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  • Student Success Blog

    The evolution of student success

    How did we arrive at today's complex definition of student success? Our experts borrowed principles from evolutionary biology to examine how far student success has come, as well as where it might go in the future.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    Survey findings: Vendor relationships and budgets across enrollment management offices

    The Enrollment Management Benchmarking Survey presents data based on responses from 88 EM leaders. Explore the differences between public and private institutions when it comes to vendor relationships and budgeting.

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  • Student Success Blog

    The false tradeoff between academic rigor and course pass rates

    See four proven approaches to working with faculty and academic departments to redesign high-DFW courses while maintaining or even strengthening their academic rigor.

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