HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. By 2022 it was 40%.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2023

This HEPI guest blog has been written by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager – Student Experience at Coventry University. However, the conversation on skills shortages, international students’ employability, and graduate outcomes overlooks an underutilised resource a lot of UK universities have access to, LinkedIn Learning.

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HEPI

JULY 30, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, interim Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton, and Gemma Kay, University of Wolverhampton, Aspire to HE. We refer to specific student characteristics, which make it less likely those pupils will consider higher education. What do we mean by ‘disadvantaged’?

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Our LGBTQ students’ lives and wellbeing are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help. Content warning: this blog contains discussions of gun violence and hate speech. In this blog, I’ll outline the imperatives for campus administrators to act on, as well as five actions you can take today.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. Although the report focused on students, the authors also noted that staff commitment to building student belonging is likely to be influenced by their own experience of belonging. Connection.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! I’ve retold my story to two other people; can’t you see that I was here yesterday?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Adam Shore, Director of the School of Business and Management at Liverpool John Moores University, Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee, and Board Director of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE).

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Buttle UK is a children’s charity providing grants to children and young people who have gone through crisis and are living in poverty. Estranged young people (EYP) are largely invisible. Living without the financial and emotional support most of their peers rely on during their teens leaves them extremely vulnerable.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Podcast Will Your School Start Recruiting Incarcerated Students? EAB experts Caylie Privitere and Matthew McAloon examine the benefits to students and institutions from the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated persons who want to pursue a college education. EAB · Will Your School Start Recruiting Incarcerated Students?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Maddalaine Ansell, Director Education, the British Council. More than half of international higher education students in the UK come from the Asia Pacific region with the two giants of China and India sending 24 per cent and 13 per cent of students respectively in 2020/21.

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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I’ve been reading Phil Hill’s excellent blog ( PhilOnEdTech ) for the last few years, and have wanted to talk with him many times. I finally picked up the phone to talk with him about a set of blogs he wrote about new data from IPEDS that indicate that they’ve been undercounting online students by almost 2 million students.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 31, 2023

Reading Time: 11 minutes Any school looking to increase its engagement on social media may be keen to know about the positive impact a student ambassador program can have. Not yet sold on the idea of student ambassadors for your school? Your next question may be: “ What does a student ambassador do? ”

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Helix Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

This blog is not about the results of our study; we will be releasing our report at the end of September. Now see what the students told us about how they are feeling. Here are their top takeaways: Fear and anxiety paralyze people; we do not make good decisions when we are feeling afraid, stressed, and anxious.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I was pleased to wake up one morning last week to find Steven Mintz’s blog post for Inside Higher Ed “ The F Word ” awaiting me in my inbox. The piece argues forcefully for the need to place faculty at the forefront of the student success movement. So where’s the problem?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The latter were descried as thinking government only selectively engage with academic research evidence to support their desired arguments and outcomes. Many voices are needed to help inform policy but, as was clear at the event, this isn’t a simple case of finding one possible solution. This then was quite a gap to be bridged.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Catalyzed by the sudden rush online, many institutions have become more focused on the growth of their online programs post-COVID, but many of these programs can’t accommodate international students due to residency requirements. But why does it seem so hard to find them? Stealth shopping behaviors increased 300% from 2012 to 2022.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

Working at ED gave me insight about how policy's actually made, and one thing I keep seeing is that higher ed doesn't advocate for itself the same way that other sectors do. Department of Education. Most industry lobbies have PACs and do things differently than we do in higher education.” And that got us the grant.

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HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by Martin Blakey, CEO of Unipol, a student housing charity. On current admission trends, this would mean an increase of 40,000 students in England by 2025 (and a fall of around 18,000 students in Scotland). From then on, home undergraduate numbers may fall further.

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Helix Education

MAY 4, 2023

The RNL fundraising experts team of Greta Daniels, Justin Marquart, Nick Herman, and Scott Kruger contributed to this blog and presented at these events with RNL partners. It’s great to see larger systems, many that are going into campaigns, headed out find talent. We have to get the word out, and fast.” See on LinkedIn.)

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 30, 2023

The mix of courses with digital components demanded by students and offered by institutions has changed. This new report, released today, details the results of a survey on faculty and student desires regarding digital learning offerings and faculty readiness for the digital learning shift. The numbers support the idea of a shift.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. I’ll give you 10,000 reasons: the degree will cost students $10,000! Let me say that slowly. A $10K master’s degree from a top global university.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. And even though Hispanic students were the only college student population who saw consistent growth over the past 10 years, there was still a 24.5% Tip #1: Build belonging.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She discussed what America needs most from higher education, the operational challenges and rewards for a major university system, how to best serve returning students, and humility and perspective as leadership attributes. Leaders need to recognize that faculty are the key drivers of change inside the classroom and in the curriculum.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She discussed what America needs most from higher education, the operational challenges and rewards for a major university system, how to best serve returning students, and humility and perspective as leadership attributes. Leaders need to recognize that faculty are the key drivers of change inside the classroom and in the curriculum.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting It seems life all of higher ed Twitter has been discussing the story of Maitlin Jones Jr., following the signing of a petition by 82 out of 350 students in the class who believed they were not being given the support necessary to learn. Students felt they were being weeded out unfairly.

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EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Blogs 4 AI priorities for enrollment leaders ChatGPT and the other “new AIs” caught even the most expert of industry watchers by surprise, and fully understanding their potential impact will take some time. In the course of tackling one of the tasks it was assigned, GPT-4 independently reached out via TaskRabbit for help solving a CAPTCHA.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Robert Crammond, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). Universities are driven by several factors, from teaching and student satisfaction to the demands of the local business community , as well as the push to respond to social and technological change.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This blog was contributed by Louise Banahene (PFHEA) MBE, Director of Educational Engagement at the University of Leeds, and Jon Down, Director of Development at Grit Breakthrough Programmes. This is one of a growing number of reports on loneliness experienced by students. Loneliness is intrinsically connected to belonging.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Blogs “Move-in melt” is on the rise: Why it’s happening and 3 strategies to fight it “Summer melt" is a familiar challenge for enrollment and student success teams across the country. So, what’s going on with these student populations? Due to the extensive paperwork and waiting times involved with the U.S.

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Helix Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

In a November 2022 blog , I presented some high level findings on the differences between IPEDS data on 12-Month Unduplicated Headcount numbers (“12-Month data”) versus IPEDS Fall Snapshot numbers (“Snapshot Data”). Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics.

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EAB

APRIL 7, 2023

Blogs 3 reasons your colleagues don’t want to use data—and how to change their minds Part one of a two-part series on data adoption Has this ever happened to you? Or perhaps this sounds more familiar: You're in yet another meeting where one voice exclaims, "We need data!" Part one provides the analyst's perspective.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Dr. Drumm McNaughton discusses contemporary EdTech trends and predictions with Phil Hill, publisher of Phil on EdTech Blog and partner at MindWires LLC. This efficient use of technology enables prospective students to get immediate clarity on their credit transfers, significantly enhancing the enrollment experience.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2023

President Willis shared lessons learned at her previous job, expectations and challenges for presidents of color, ensuring the support of your board, tips for contract negotiations, and a book from grad school that still resonates. You think that everybody is happy to see you there. You think that everybody is happy to see you there.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. This is how universities see it too. Yet the UK has a problem in innovation, decades in the making.

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Blogs Near-Term Strategies to Combat Transfer Decline As Fall 2023 classes shape up, many enrollment leaders once again face lagging transfer rates. More high school students are now opting out of college and instead choosing to enter the workforce directly. Transfer enrollments have declined by 13.5%

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 11, 2023

Thousands of institutions are competing for a dwindling number of students. With so many schools to choose from, and a generation of students who have become even more discerning , what used to help you stand out just doesn’t cut it anymore. You need to dig deep to uncover what truly makes your university distinct.

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