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3 demographic trends shaping the future of graduate and adult enrollment

Here’s a closer look at the demographic trends shaping graduate and adult enrollment and the strategic actions graduate…
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Focus on email deliverability, not email delivery

Learn the difference between email delivery and email deliverability—and why confusing them can hurt your enrollment results.
Enrollment Blog
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What the OBBB and the new Carnegie classification could mean for higher education accountability

The new Carnegie classification and One Big Beautiful Bill both spotlight post-college earnings. Could this become the new…
Student Success Blog
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4 higher ed alternative revenue ideas that won’t deliver—and what actually will

Discover four commonly suggested pursuits for revenue generation and their more promising alternatives.
Higher Education Strategy Blog

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  • Why the right time is now to invest in renewable energy production on my campus

    A public university has two major operating revenues, if one of them doesn’t increase over time……well you get it. Budgets have been, and always will be in my experience, “tight.” It makes it difficult to gain approval of expenditures that are perceived to not be in the “here and now.” With this knowledge and having worked the duration of my career in my university’s finance division, naturally one of my first thoughts when evaluating a project of any kind is value proposition……does it work financially?

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Moving the university’s transformational plan into action

    While the evolution of strategic planning has continued, so too has the lack of strategic execution. Two primary reasons why strategic plans fail are an organization’s lack of commitment and vision or failure to identify and measure appropriate metrics of success.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    3 challenges you’ll face developing new online programs—and how to meet them

    Here are a few of the hurdles academic leaders often encounter when launching online programs and strategies you can use to improve your online programs and the program development process.

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  • Student Success Blog

    What 126 presidents learned from Slack about the future of work

    126 college and university presidents discussed the future of work during our Presidential Experience Lab, EAB’s signature event for college and university presidents to take inspiration from out-of-industry exemplars to consider thought-provoking concepts, lessons and trends to help shape their leadership efforts and institutional strategy.

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  • Student Success Blog

    Who could benefit the most from more academic advising?

    Our data science team has been studying how advising interactions might inflect student outcomes by analyzing data from over two dozen partner institutions in the Student Success Collaborative. Explore some of their early findings.

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  • K-12 District Leadership Blog

    2 areas of growth for independent schools amid COVID-19 recovery

    Discover two key opportunities for growth K-12 independent schools should focus on amid COVID-19 recovery.

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  • Student Success Blog

    How the first-gen experience prepared CSU’s chancellor for the job

    Dr. Joseph Castro, chancellor of California State University, discusses how his experience as a first-generation student led him to pursue a career in higher education and how it has made him a more compassionate leader.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    4 lessons for higher ed chiefs of staff in improving government relations and partnerships

    To discuss this changing role and offer a look at one chief of staff’s practitioner experience, EAB hosted a working session on “The Chief of Staff’s Role in Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships” featuring an interview and Q&A with Ryan DeBoef, Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President for Governmental Relations at Missouri State University.

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  • Community College Blog

    Create a streamlined student onboarding experience

    To learn how to create a better virtual student onboarding experience, our team went secret shopping at for-profit institutions. Here are three takeaways for community college leaders.

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