Faced with increased competition for students and declining enrollment, the University of Montana centralized the oversight of its web presence to create a unified look and feel across all of its websites. The use of new templates reduced reliance on outside design firms, cut costs, helped meet accessibility compliance, and increased the pace at which […]

The needs of those who work and learn in institutions of higher education require environments that reflect their preferences and culture more than ever before. That's why experiential branding and wayfinding have become integral parts of an institution's architectural expression. While the brand—the story of who you are and why you exist as an institution— […]

Clark University (Mass.) Clark welcomed its first full class under the Liberal Education and Effective Practice program in fall 2013. A record 7,291 students applied to be part of Clark's class of 2018, a 31 percent increase over last year's numbers and a 70 percent rise over two years. Mount Ida College (Mass.) Enrollments have […]

The number of Americans age 18 to 21, the traditional college age, has decreased by nearly 700,000 since 2011—from 18.1 to 17.4 million—according to research from the University of Virginia. With this decline, many colleges could turn to older non-first-time students to maintain enrollment numbers and financial goals. Yet, more than 2.5 million adult learners […]