Attracting Students
Making Financial Aid Work for Working Adults, Businesses, and US Economy
Katie Brown | Senior Federal Policy Analyst, National Skills CoalitionAmerica has one of the best higher education system in the world, especially for full-time students pursuing a traditional four-year college degree. But for working students and adults who need…
Redefining Norms Critical to Sustained Relevance in the Changing Postsecondary Environment
Hunt Lambert | Dean of Continuing Education and Extension, Harvard UniversityHigher education has existed for over a millennium in an effectively unchanged state, but the impetus to transform has arrived. Fast-changing labor demands, evolving learner expectations and transformed market realities…
Establishing and Maintaining Program Responsiveness in Continuing Education
Kelly Otter | Dean of the School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown UniversityContinuing Education (CE) divisions that don’t keep a finger on the pulse of industry change risk being overlooked in favor of schools that better respond to market needs. In this…
The Growing Profile of Non-Degree Credentials: Diving Deeper into ‘Education Credentials Come of Age’
Sean Gallagher | Executive Director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, Northeastern UniversityThe world of credentialing is changing fast. Employer needs have evolved in concert with improving hiring support technologies. Higher education institutions are now in a difficult position, responding to changing…
The Five Secrets for Marketing and Enrollment Growth: You Can’t Scale Without Appropriate Staffing (The Fourth Secret)
Joseph Sallustio | Chief Operating Officer, Claremont Lincoln University Jay Casper | President, Data Driven MarketingClarence Bowman | Bowman Design WorksTo set the stage for this secret, we’ll assume that your institution has internal enrollment personnel and hasn’t outsourced this function. We will also assume that your institution, at least…
Education Consumers Are Speaking; Policymakers, Educators, Employers Must Listen
Carol D'Amico | Executive Vice President, Strada Education NetworkTo understand how American consumers value anything—from the gadgets they purchase to their Uber rides or restaurant experiences—we simply ask them. So why not ask the consumers of education how…
Adopting an Entrepreneurial Mindset: Community Colleges Facing A New Fiscal Norm
Gregory Thomas | President, City Colleges of Chicago – Kennedy-KingIn the wake of the Great Recession, we are seeing a number of paradoxical trends. For example, in an era of declining support for community colleges, there’s higher expectations than…
Sense of Belonging for International Students: How Can We Foster It and Why Do We Need To?
Vandana Pawa | Program Coordinator at the Center for Community Action and Research, Pace UniversityOver the last decade, college enrollment levels within the United States as a whole have been fairly stagnant. Despite this, enrollment of international students (classified as any students studying in…