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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What Murray Sperber described in his bestseller Beer and Circus in 2001 is every bit as true today: the academic enterprise is decentered, and the quality of housing amenities, the robustness of student life programming, and the quality of an institution’s athletic teams are primary drivers of undergraduate enrollment.

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Report: Students Interested in HBCUs Have Unique Wants and Concerns

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More specifically, HBCU seekers were nearly 50% more likely than non-HBCU seekers to prize strong school spirit and traditions, and more than two and a half times more likely to say that they wanted active Greek life. That’s something that our students communicate,” he said.

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Report: Students Interested in HBCUs Have Unique Wants

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More specifically, HBCU seekers were nearly 50% more likely than non-HBCU seekers to prize strong school spirit and traditions, and more than two and a half times more likely to say that they wanted active Greek life. That’s something that our students communicate,” he said.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Impact “As of 2020, students who live on campus, their [three-year] graduation rate is 4% higher than the students who do not live on campus,” says Andrew Morong, dean of enrollment management at CMCC. Their fall-to-fall retention rate between fall 2022 and fall 2023 was actually 11% higher than commuters.”

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Career Q&A: UT Knoxville's vice provost for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

While building a 15-year foundation in admissions and enrollment management, Williams found herself engaging with students long after they had enrolled, which naturally expanded to helping them successfully navigate campus. Both gave me so much gratification, connection and energy to come to work—it was phenomenal.

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HBCUs take note: 4 ways to sustain enrollment following post-pandemic boom

University Business

Anthony Jones, vice president of enrollment management and student experience at Bethune-Cookman University, is also confronting this reality. For example, NASCAR recently tapped Bethune-Cookman for an internship program that allows participants to develop a marketing activation while managing a set budget provided by NASCAR.

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Unleash the Chatbots! AI for Retention

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

Vice President for Student Life, Mount St. From my experience, most retention solutions employ more of a big data approach, analyzing years of institutional data to build predictive models for each student. “There are so many companies now vying for the higher education technology space. Mary’s University. billion dollars.