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Sustainable student success strategies for higher ed leaders

Three college presidents share four lessons for building a sustainable student success model through connected support and real-time…
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What's changed after the new FAFSA? One enrollment leader's biggest lessons

Learn how enrollment leaders can strengthen FAFSA follow-up, improve affordability conversations, and keep students engaged through today's evolving…
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How one university used AI to build trust in financial scenario planning

Discover how the New Jersey Institute of Technology built an AI-enabled financial scenario planning simulator for campus stakeholders.
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6 trends we're watching after the end of Grad PLUS

The end of Grad PLUS is reshaping graduate enrollment. Explore six key trends in borrowing, scholarships, private loans,…
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  • K-12 District Leadership Blog

    Manage divisive conversations and prevent flashpoints in your K-12 district

    Superintendents today are forced to contend with frequent, divisive issues that turn into districtwide flashpoints. Use EAB’s decision-making framework to break down your district’s flashpoints.

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  • Student Success Blog

    What You Need to Know About the Biden Administration’s Title IX Proposal

    The U.S. Education Department released its proposed changes on June 23rd, including reversals of many policies enacted by the previous administration. The new rules emphasize the importance of protecting victims of sexual harassment and discrimination and creating environments to easily report misconduct. The proposed updates are now open for a 60-day public comment and review period, and the date they will go into effect is still uncertain.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    3 tips to craft an enticing college profile page

    College search platforms like Cappex and Naviance are primary college research tools among Gen Z. In 2021, PowerSchool’s annual Naviance student survey found that 62% of Naviance students ranked the platform as their top resource for researching colleges. Optimizing your content on these platforms can have a strong impact on your recruitment goals, regardless of your size, location, or academic offerings. For many students, your college profile page is the first interaction they’ll have with you – so you need to make it count.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    How we’re reimagining the way students apply to college

    Teaming up with Concourse, we created Greenlight Match – a streamlined process that would help students find their college match, and help colleges recruit hundreds more students they might not have identified otherwise. The pilot exceeded our team’s and our partners’ expectations. This post reflects on how Greenlight Match started, the impressive impact from our pilot year, and a plan to expand in the 2022-2023 academic year.

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  • Community College Blog

    3 ways to combat the community college enrollment decline

    Community colleges are facing steeper pandemic-era enrollment drops than any other higher education segment. Learn 3 ways community colleges can invest their resources to enroll more students and retain the students they have.

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  • Student Success Blog

    What happens when you disaggregate your student success data?

    Untold campus insights are hiding in plain sight within our student success data. When leaders disaggregate data for a group, their needs become visible. This blog illustrates what happens when you disaggregate student success data through a case study from Carthage College.

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  • Enrollment Blog

    How Admissions Teams Should Navigate the Staffing Crisis

    Research shows enrollment teams are experiencing unprecedented staffing challenges. Learn how enrollment teams are navigating the admissions staffing crisis.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    Struggling to engage busy adult learners? Start by auditing your recruitment emails.

    After spending the better part of two decades crafting recruitment communications on behalf of colleges and universities (including our 140+ Adult Learner Recruitment partners), here are a few insights that can put you on the right course for writing your next recruitment email.

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  • Adult Education Blog

    3 takeaways on the state of graduate enrollment from our survey of 1,200+ practitioners

    To better understand the state of graduate enrollment, we partnered with our friends at NAGAP to survey enrollment leaders across the last two years. Here’s what our surveys of 1,216 GEM professionals revealed about the state—and future—of graduate enrollment management.

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