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‘Pulling Back the Veil’ on Enrollment Management

Confessions of a Community College Dean

‘Pulling Back the Veil’ on Enrollment Management Liam Knox Tue, 05/14/2024 - 03:00 AM Stephen Burd’s new book blames much of higher ed’s current woes on the multi-million dollar industry. He spoke with IHE about how admissions became a numbers game and why poor students are worse off for it. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Yes, the Enrollment Management Industry Is Harming Higher Ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In an opinion essay they wrote for this publication recently, Robert Massa and Bill Conley gently took issue with my book Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management: How a Powerful Industry Is Limiting Social Mobility in American Higher Education ( Burd writes.

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Dr. Kelly E. Slay, Vanderbilt University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A frequent speaker on college admissions and the impact of race-conscious affirmative action bans in higher education, Slays researchappears in scholarly journals and two recently published books: Rethinking College Admissions and A Comprehensive Guide to Graduate Enrollment Management (First Edition).

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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet despite the back and forth between Florida and the College Board, the program has now spread to 700 schools with nearly 13,000 students enrolled. Jones, vice president of enrollment management and student experience at Bethune-Cookman University, said that HBCU enrollment should be fine, for the moment.

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An Urgent Solution Required: Too Many Guns are Killing Too Many of our Children.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Here we are, Black folks with advanced degrees, book contracts, and a wealth of knowledge, absolutely helpless to our younger brothers and sisters mobilizing in Chicago’s streets, influenced by social media, mob mentality and in possession of guns. I don’t recall reading a book as having ever killed a child. Politicians. Share ideas.

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Why these leaders want to secure the liberal arts in a digital world

University Business

. “No matter how much technology or machines integrate into our culture, we’re all human beings functioning with those machines,” says Jessica Hooten Wilson , the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

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Increase Graduate School Enrollment through Strategic Enrollment Management: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 191 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Justin Grimes

The Change Leader, Inc.

23 January · Episode 191 Increase Graduate School Enrollment through Strategic Enrollment Management 40 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Strategic enrollment management (SEM) as a solution for growing graduate school enrollment in declining markets (e.g., minority and STEM). Drumm: My pleasure.