Weightlist Episode 6 – Interview with George Kirkland Co-Founder of Raise.me
What happens when a young start-up rethinks the decades old practice of a lump sum approach to awarding financial aid? On The Weightlist this week we chat with George Kirkland, Co-Founder of Raise.me, a company that invented the concept of micro-scholarships and in so...
Weightlist Episode 5 – The Five Ways Enrollment Predictions are Putting Colleges Out of Business
Enrollment management, at its core, is a prediction business. Annually, thousands of admissions officers polish off the crystal ball and project what the enrollment future holds for their institutions. Yogi Berra often quipped that “The future isn’t what it used to...
Weightlist Episode 4 – Interview with Zain Khandwala Part 2
Could an algorithm ever do the job of an admissions officer? How do you build a data-driven analytic culture? How can universities best utilize analytics to shift their business processes? In part 2 of our interview with Zain Khandwala, the Executive Director of the...
Weightlist Episode 3 – Interview with Zain Khandwala Part 1
What does the hype cycle and trough of disillusionment look like in the higher education data space? Have we been here before? Data Science, informatics, business analytics – are all these terms just buzzwords? Universities investing big resources in how they...
Weightlist Episode 2 – The End of Enrollment Theory?
How do we understand complex enrollment problems in the age of the petabyte? Thom and Brad discuss what enrollment management could learn from Big Data and what it means for conventional enrollment theory. Of course, along the way there’s always beer, smoking jackets,...
