Tag: Community College
Learning From a College Mission to End Poverty
November 5, 2019 | Graduate & Professional Studies, Higher Education Marketing Trends
“We have one goal,” says Michael Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas. “It is a simple goal. It defines everything about us,…
The Melting Pot and Cost Benefit of Community College
September 30, 2019 | Higher Education Marketing Trends
My father was a first-generation college student. It helped that he had the GI Bill, having served four years in the Air Force. By 1969…
New Thinking to Combat Community College Enrollment Decline
July 26, 2019 | Disrupting Enrollment
Community college enrollment across the United States has been in steady decline since 2011. According to Inside Higher Ed’s 2017 Survey of College and University…
Free Community College: An Expanding Ideal
July 12, 2019 | Disrupting Enrollment, Higher Education Marketing Trends
Maybe you’ve already heard the news: free community college tuition in Maryland. As The Baltimore Sun reported last year, Republican Governor Larry Hogan intended to…
College: It Has Never Been More Important … But Is It Affordable?
June 20, 2019 | Higher Education Marketing Trends
An article on the online news website, Insider Louisville, had some telling data about the status of families preparing financially for their kids’ college education…
Two Great Tastes: The Value of Online Ed and Community Colleges
May 14, 2019 | Disrupting Enrollment
Do you know how long community colleges have been around? Since 1901, as this recent article in U.S. News & World Report reminds us. Traditionally,…
A New Look at Technical and Community College Recruitment
April 4, 2019 | Disrupting Enrollment, Graduate & Professional Studies
Unlike four-year colleges and universities, technical and community college recruitment strategies often do not involve working with their prospective students until those students apply. Most…
Is Your College or University ‘Million Dollar Ready?’
March 6, 2019 | University Advancement
Today we re-visit an oldie-but-goodie: a decade-long study by researchers from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the consulting firm, Johnson Grossnickle and Associates,…
Capture Welcomes New Partner Assumption College
February 20, 2019 | Capture News, Graduate & Professional Studies
Introducing one of Capture Higher Ed’s newest partners, Assumption College, a private, Catholic, liberal arts institution in Worcester, Mass. The college also has a campus…
New Year, New Agenda: Saving Private Colleges
New Year’s is a time for resolutions. Here’s one for saving private colleges: “think differently.” Why? To avoid closure or merger. Two days into the…