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How to empower student-parents in higher education

Near-Term Strategies to Combat Transfer Decline

This blog details four quick-win strategies that can help you clean up your transfer student journey.

The Dos and Don’ts of Leveraging University Traditions in Your Annual Giving Strategy

In this blog, we’ll explore the dos and don’ts of leveraging your institution’s traditions in an annual giving program.

Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. However, many students face significant barriers outside of the classroom that hinder their ability to excel, like I did.

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 plans.

How to empower student-parents in higher education

Generation Hope founder and CEO Nicole Lynn Lewis discusses the importance of valuing student-parents and provides tips for higher ed leaders.

EAB Strategic Advisory Services Extends Breadth and Depth of Coverage

This blog outlines EAB Strategic Advisory Services’ new higher education research agenda organized by nine areas of inquiry.

Activating and retaining undergraduate alumni as annual donors

In this Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship blog, Margo Thomas from Stetson University discusses the difficulties colleges face when it comes to reaching and retaining alumni donors.

UMBC’s journey to better staff recruitment

In this Rising Higher Education Leaders fellowship blog, learn how UMBC leaders updated their candidate recruitment process.