10 ways your campus marketing can entice today’s students
I have been in the higher education sector for over 17 years and unfortunately have continued to see marketers make the same mistakes over and over again.
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Top 5 ways small colleges can save money with tech
Budgetary restrictions and cutbacks are making life harder at small colleges across the nation. In fact, “about a third of small private colleges rated by Moody’s generated operating…
Space: The final frontier in the search for full-pay students?
In order to maximize net tuition revenue, higher education employs a high-price, high-discount model. But just as trees don’t grow to the sky, this strategy can’t work forever—the…
Campuses show major shift in supporting student success
Institutions are increasingly focused on supporting student success, with 73 percent of colleges and universities shifting their organizational structure to benefit students, according to a new study. The…
Trending: Students say digital payments key for college
With the rising popularity of P2P (person-to-person) payments through sites such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, Zelle and Venmo, digital disbursements have become to millennials what cash and checks…
5 reasons why analytics tech is a game-changer for universities
When you have nearly 38,000 students enrolled in your university, the data challenges are formidable. At The University of Alabama, the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA)…
Hyperconvergence in campus IT-Why taking a software approach is best
New technologies often fundamentally change how IT procures and operates infrastructure and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is no exception. HCI is the combination of compute and storage into an…
The US and UK: Comparing higher education in the two top ranking nations
While the US and the UK may share dominant placement when it comes to international rankings for higher education degrees, programs and institutions, the similarity often ends there.…
7 challenges women STILL face in higher ed-and how to fix them
While more than half of all college students are women, less than one-third of all full-time professors are women--and the troubling gaps in academia are proving difficult to…
MIT issues learner-owned digital diplomas on the blockchain
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has issued learner-owned academic credentials on the blockchain. The University’s Digital Diploma Pilot Program allowed a select cohort of students to receive both…