Texas four-year public institutions saw a sizable decrease in international student interest for fall '17, with application numbers down 12.5 percent from fall '16 numbers: Dropping from 44 percent international yield to 33 percent, or the equivalent of about 10,000 applications. Some administrators are sourcing the Trump Administration and fluctuating immigration policies as reason for […]

Seven years ago, Western Kentucky University said goodbye to its time-consuming, paper-based way of issuing financial aid refunds and said hello to BankMobile, an electronic disbursement service that has led to major savings. “Between student refunds and student payroll disbursements, we have eliminated having to issue 76,000 paper checks annually,” says Belinda Higginbotham, bursar for […]

The leadership of Dickinson College understands the importance of predictive analytics to help shape their class. But they also know that models can get stale, and will improve only when they are transparent and institutional departments collaborate during the model building and enrollment process.  In this web seminar, the vice president for enrollment, marketing and […]

This month we begin a trilogy of best value proposition case studies providing an inside look at how several institutions have developed more relevant ways of measuring value-added outcomes, quality of learning experience, and return on tuition investment.  Typically, the college selection process for high school students is as routine as the senior prom, where students and parents eyeball traditional college […]