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The Evolution of communication flows: a 360° Journey

Recently, I traveled to visit clients and stopped on my way back home to visit with a former colleague from a previous institution. Over dinner, we reminisced about the good old days when things were tough, but not nearly impossible. And while neither of us really wanted to think about COVID (aren’t we all over this by now?), we did talk about the impact on enrollment and what the future of admission will look like as we get closer and closer to the demographic cliff that lies ahead. 

Mini-Case Studies Just Right for 2021

No one can dispute what an unpredictable, ambiguous, and upside-down year 2020 was. You may be...

Madison Square Garden, Here We Come: Recruiting Adult & Graduate Students

When it comes to graduate and adult recruitment, there are many moving parts. Unlike the...

From Clay to Gold: Leadership Lessons Among Chaos

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” To me, it seems Charles Dickens described...

Emailing Unengaged: Adapting to Succeed Today and Tomorrow

Enrollment managers have been trained to squeeze everything they can out of their prospective...

Can Look-Alike Modeling Replace Traditional List Purchasing?

As the enrollmentFUEL team talks to enrollment vice presidents around the country, one topic comes...

Get Found: SEO Lessons from STEM University

The world most college administrators grew up in – where students searched for their college or...

Aligning New Board Members to Your Way of Thinking

Even before the upheavals caused by the global pandemic, college and university boards have...

microSEARCH™—A Small Solution with Big Wins and How it Can Help You

In 2009, I met with Christoph Guttentag of Duke University. Our conversation covered many topics,...

How and Why College Students Select an Institution

I recently went to dinner with a friend of mine. The dinner was fabulous, the company even better,...