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A Capture Checklist: Focusing Your Transfer Enrollment Strategy

A Capture Checklist: Focusing Your Transfer Enrollment Strategy

Transfer students can be knowledgeable consumers of college — more knowledgeable than first-time freshmen. This isn’t their first rodeo. They may not want to be talked to like a student who has never been to college before. Universities must apply a transfer...
Driving Inquiries and Applications with Digital Advertising

Driving Inquiries and Applications with Digital Advertising

With traditional marketing methods becoming less effective, colleges and universities are turning more and more to digital advertising to drive student inquiries and applications. This requires developing, executing, and measuring a complete digital marketing plan...
Inside Higher Ed Editor Outlines ‘Top 10 Issues in Admissions’

Inside Higher Ed Editor Outlines ‘Top 10 Issues in Admissions’

INNOVATE 2022, Capture Higher Ed’s virtual conference for enrollment management and marketing professionals, opened with a presenter who likely needed no introduction for those working in higher education. For more than 20 years, Inside Higher Ed co-founder and...
Lessons of St. Catharine: A President Discusses Crisis Leadership and the Demographic Cliff

Mentoring Women: ‘You’re Going to Make a Great President Someday’

From elementary school teacher … to stay-at-home mom grad student … to the variety of higher education leadership positions that led to becoming a university president … Dr. Cindy Gnadinger benefitted from powerful mentorship. During a wide-ranging conversation with...
3 Ways to Solve Complex Recruitment Challenges

3 Ways to Solve Complex Recruitment Challenges

In the dynamic world of higher ed recruitment, enrollment leaders struggle to solve complex problems because they rely too heavily on traditional technologies and strategies. This is not to say traditional methods are not helpful, but today’s enrollment management...
Email Marketing: How Long Should Your Emails Be?

Email Marketing: How Long Should Your Emails Be?

When students open an email from your school, give them some substance to read. While it seems a long message will turn off a potential student, if an email is too short it may not provide enough information to be worth their attention.  The length of emails — defined...
Recruitment Homestretch: 3 Strategies for Finishing Strong

Recruitment Homestretch: 3 Strategies for Finishing Strong

Welcome to May! As of this writing, there are just over 100 days left in the Class of 2022 recruitment campaign for most campuses around the world. You may be asking yourself, “What, as an admission counselor, can I do to finish strong?”   I started out as a counselor...
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