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Enrollment Management

Will your institution hold on through 2020?

Unless you are among the nation’s exclusive (and expensive) colleges and universities, you need to focus on affordability and curricular innovations, says Scott D. Miller, UB guest columnist and president of Virginia Wesleyan University.​ Those resistant to change are ignoring market realities that can combine to create the perfect storm—and lead to closure.

How higher ed inequity persists in graduate school

The concept of college as the great equalizer suffers when it comes to lucrative graduate degrees, which are more often earned by students from high-income backgrounds, University of Kentucky researchers say.

6 key questions about nontraditional college students

If you take the University Business quiz on adult learners, you just might get some useful tips on marketing your institution and its programs to older students.

Troubling trends taint record high for international students

The number of international students hit an all-time high, but overall enrollment only grew by 0.05% and the number of first-timers declined for the third school year in a row.

How colleges are navigating a new world of enrollment

Some experts warn of a looming higher ed enrollment bust, but applications are not down everywhere as colleges reach out to new groups of students.

How will doubts around DACA impact college ‘Dreamers’?

Some 98,000 immigrant students graduate from high school each year, but the U.S. Supreme Court may be on the verge of ending the program that allows them to study and work.
Wed Nov 13th, 2019

You shouldn’t give up on the U.S. when Chinese enrollment drops

The number of Chinese students enrolled at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has dropped, but overall enrollment is up. The source of those students? The U.S.
Fri Nov 8th, 2019

How colleges are responding to the drop in Chinese enrollment

U.S. colleges are now recruiting in more parts of the world as political tensions have led some Chinese students to stay home or study elsewhere.

Fri Nov 8th, 2019

Industry News: Higher ed institutions offer faculty, students new tech to boost efficiencies

Schools are implementing new platforms for online course material sales, faculty information systems, credit transfers and more.
Thu Nov 7th, 2019

People Watch: Edwards voted in as Wright State U’s president—without her knowledge

Susan Edwards was to have served on an interim basis, but the board of trustees appointed her to lead the Ohio school.
Thu Nov 7th, 2019

Test-optional admissions policies advance

A growing number of colleges are no longer requiring standardized exam scores for student applications, which officials say increases college access.
Thu Oct 10th, 2019