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Campuses are getting smarter. But is your institution ready for a "smart campus"?

Smart spaces require more than gimmicks, and bringing together multiple tech spaces to create a truly smart campus is difficult. So, let’s start with the question of what is a smart campus?

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.

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.

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.

Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division

Read our fellowship blog to learn how Melissa Grant at Pace University helped to build a streamlined caseload-management advisement strategy.