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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.
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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…
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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.
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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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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    How is burnout related between faculty, staff, and students?

    This blog proposes steps that can be taken to promote wellness across campus for faculty, students, and staff through communication and increased peer support.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    How to use state demand data to launch or revitalize programs

    Use state-level data to achieve more successful launches by encouraging a data-driven approach.

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  • Student Success Blog

    How to support Black male student success

    Meacie Fairfax shares advice on how colleges can better support Black male students, as well as 5 guiding questions from Dr. Roderick Heath, director of the African American Male Initiative at North Carolina Central University.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    Here’s how to incorporate experiential learning into your online programs

    Growing student interest in online programs, further accelerated by the pandemic, has challenged administrators to offer experiential learning opportunities online or at off-campus locations accessible to online students. Here are some of our researchers’ suggestions for creating the proper infrastructure to remotely deliver lab, clinical, or field work hours.

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  • Student Success Blog

    3 Realities Facing Liberal Arts Colleges in DEIJ Efforts

    EAB hosted a virtual advisory session with chief diversity officers (CDOs) of selective liberal arts colleges to learn how these barriers impact their institutions. The leaders shared the challenges they run into in their work and how they are focusing their next steps to ensure systemic change on campus. The discussion revealed three realities of DEIJ efforts at liberal arts colleges.

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  • Community College Blog

    How to Build a Student-Centric Community College

    EAB’s Dr. Christina Hubbard and White Mountains Community College President Dr. Chuck Lloyd sat down to discuss what it means to be a student-centric institution.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    Looking to Improve the Academic Quality of Your Law School’s Class? Here Are 3 Tips.

    As we all well know, the law school market has been turbulent these last few years. While a multitude of factors led to a spike in law school applications in 2021, if 2022 is any indication, we don’t expect that increase in demand to sustain itself over time. Of course, what hasn’t changed is the pressure law school leaders face to increase or sustain the academic quality of the incoming class.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    Demand for social workers is growing—here are 3 ways to optimize your program for growth

    After helping dozens of EAB partner institutions improve their Master of Social Work (MSW) programs, we recommend these three ways to strengthen your MSW offering and best prepare students for the job market.

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    Why Colleges Use Data Analytics to Inform Financial Aid Strategy

    Through a process known as “financial aid optimization” (or FAO), colleges work to provide a viable path to and through higher education for students from all backgrounds and economic circumstances while balancing that effort against the challenge of maintaining their own financial viability.

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