Higher Education Enrollment Growth Briefing
Education Podcasts
Enrollment Growth Briefing is a quick daily update for higher education leaders looking to grow enrollment at their college or university. Each briefing highlights a potential enrollment growth strategy or initiative, including topics such as: enrollment marketing, adult student recruitment, enrollment management, online learning, student retention, data intelligence, online course development, financial aid, academic scheduling, and more. If you’re looking for tactics, strategies, and best practices in order to build a step-by-step roadmap toward enrollment growth at your institution, this briefing is for you.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
Enrollment Growth Briefing is a quick daily update for higher education leaders looking to grow enrollment at their college or university. Each briefing highlights a potential enrollment growth strategy or initiative, including topics such as: enrollment marketing, adult student recruitment, enrollment management, online learning, student retention, data intelligence, online course development, financial aid, academic scheduling, and more. If you’re looking for tactics, strategies, and best practices in order to build a step-by-step roadmap toward enrollment growth at your institution, this briefing is for you.
Language:
English
Episodes
Helix Education is now a part of RNL
9/2/2022
This is your final Enrollment Growth Briefing from Helix Education. I’m Eric Olsen.
And I’m so excited to share that Helix Education is now a part of RNL, the leading provider of higher education enrollment management, student success, and fundraising solutions.
We’ve loved learning with you over these past 1,100 episodes. 1,100. Oh my goodness. What a crazy number. These daily enrollment growth devotionals have been such an amazing reminder to me of all of the innovation and passion...
Duration:00:01:15
Only 65% of higher ed business officers are optimistic about their institution’s financial future
8/19/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with COVID funds from the American Rescue Plan helping keep higher ed’s finances afloat during the down enrollment years of the pandemic, 65% of Chief Business Officers believe their institutions will be financially stable over the next decade.
Duration:00:00:59
Online law school satisfaction moved from ½ to ¾ of students in a single year
8/18/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, in 2021, only 51% of students attending law school online rated their programs as either “excellent” or “good”. Just one year later, this number has jumped to 72%, narrowing the gap between in-person satisfaction, currently at 78%, up from 76% over the same time period.
Duration:00:01:00
Will VR leave the labs and make subjects like Shakespeare come to life, too?
8/17/2022
Reported by EdSurge, new virtual reality games suggest that we’re only scratching the surface as to what immersive education will allow us to teach. For instance, Shakespeare-VR out of Carnegie Mellon University is based out of the premise that Shakespeare is meant to be performed, and merely reading the lines in a classroom doesn’t fully help students understand the art form of Shakespeare’s work.
Duration:00:01:05
Is online learning a more climate-friendly modality?
8/16/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, as our institutions start paying more attention to our personal carbon footprint, there is an ethical case to be made for the benefits of online education. In fact, The University of Michigan Dearborn reported a $570,000 cost savings from utilities during the first year of the pandemic alone.
Duration:00:01:05
Our student experience improves when faculty make them feel like they belong
8/15/2022
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a new study from the Student Experience Project showed that students’ self-assessment of their learning experience rose 10.5% when in classrooms where faculty had been trained to help promote social belonging in the classroom.
Duration:00:01:15
A for-profit campus has been acquired to become a metaversity
8/12/2022
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the next generation of this concept has begun, with the acquisition of University of Antelope Island in California, whose physical campus will be digitally replicated to become a metaversity for their online student population.
Duration:00:01:00
Nearly 2 in 5 Utah college students experience food insecurity
8/11/2022
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, Utahns Against Hunger surveyed nearly 5,700 students for this report, which also shows that this food insecurity disproportionately affected students of color, with nearly half experiencing food insecurity.
Duration:00:01:03
Will Monkeypox come for our campuses?
8/10/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with half of all confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. having been reported in the past two weeks, it is becoming increasingly likely that our institutions will have to deal with both Monkeypox and COVID protocols when students return this fall.
Duration:00:00:55
Brandeis University is preparing their PhD students for jobs outside the Academy
8/9/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with tenure-track faculty options falling dramatically across the board, Brandeis is evolving their curriculum to make sure their graduates have solid postdoctoral opportunity pathways. This includes funding both on- and off-campus internships to help students diversify their experiences.
Duration:00:00:56
Bowdoin College extends need-blind admission policies to international students
8/8/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while Bowdoin College was one of the first to adopt test-optional admissions back in 1969, it is now one of the first to provide a need-blind admissions process to international students. A 57.4% return on their endowment investments in 2021, bringing their total endowment to $2.72 billion dollars, may have been a driving force behind this decision.
Duration:00:01:05
Did OER materials receive a pandemic boost and will it last?
8/5/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a Bay View Analytics survey shows that 22% of courses in Spring 2022 required the use of open educational resources while only 33% of faculty now believe that “students learn better from print materials”.
Duration:00:01:00
Could Pell grant eligibility open up to 8-week programs?
8/4/2022
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, as Congress is determining whether or not to allow Pell Grants to cover short-term academic programs, specifically those that lead to a postsecondary credential, online-only programs are currently absent from consideration.
Duration:00:01:03
Asian-American enrollment down 20% in California’s community colleges
8/3/2022
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a common explanation here is that the rise in Asian-American discrimination during COVID has made these students more hesitant to join our academic communities. Although, while a whopping 59% of this population chooses 2-year institutions in California, their enrollment numbers at four-year institutions remains largely unchanged.
Duration:00:01:05
Is higher ed a laggard to remote work because of tax laws?
8/2/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while saying you’re open to remote work is one thing, actually being able to hire employees from all 50 states is a much heavier tax and accounting lift.
Duration:00:01:11
Could direct admit policies help more graduating high school seniors persist?
8/1/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a number of colleges are experimenting with direct admit admissions policies, including a broad program in Minnesota where 50 high schools will be participating in a direct admit system in partnership with 40 colleges who can set up their own GPA qualifier at which any participating students will be directly admitted into the respective institutions.
Duration:00:01:11
What if our students can’t afford to live near campus?
7/29/2022
Reported by Higher Ed Dive, RealPage analytics data shows that new student housing planned builds look to be down about 50% this fall compared to the pace seen back in the 2010s. While slow enrollment growth has slowed the need for net-new housing, the problem is that alternative off-campus housing rents have skyrocketed over the past couple years with the change in the housing market.
Duration:00:01:03
What nudges actually work when it comes to online engagement in education?
7/28/2022
Reported by Edsurge, Coursera’s large student base makes A/B testing extraordinarily interesting to learn quickly from at a high level of statistically significant confidence. New research shows that one of the more interesting A/B testing success stories is in regards to prompting.
Duration:00:01:12
Why is Meta spending money on metaversity TV ads?
7/27/2022
Reported by EdSurge, Meta (Facebook), is currently running television ads promising the future of education in a virtual, immersive environment. The question is, why?
Duration:00:01:11
Should the Fed prioritize debt forgiveness over college affordability?
7/26/2022
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while more than half of respondents to an NPR and Ipsos poll suggested support for President Biden’s partial debt forgiveness plan, a full 82% believe the focus should be on making college more affordable, not merely subsidizing its debt at the end of the line. But what would this look like?
Duration:00:01:02