The Higher Ed Marketer is centered around marketing professionals in the field of higher education. If you’re looking for real, practical advice on how to level up your marketing game, this is the show for you. Each episode features conversations with some of the best and brightest marketing minds in higher education, discussing the future of marketing, new technologies and so much more. 

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August 26, 2025

Your Students Will Tell You Everything: Power Your Innovation by Listening

This is the final episode of our Enrollment Rx: Strategies to Fill Your Funnel, a four-part series focused on diagnosing and treating common enrollment pipeline challenges. As fall reveals how well your funnel is performing, we’ll help you optimize lead generation, nurture flows, and student engagement. Tune in for essential…
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August 19, 2025

Putting AI Tools to Work for Your Marketing Team

This episode is number three in our Enrollment Rx: Strategies to Fill Your Funnel, a four-part series focused on diagnosing and treating common enrollment pipeline challenges. As fall reveals how well your funnel is performing, we’ll help you optimize lead generation, nurture flows, and student engagement. Tune in for essential…
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August 12, 2025

How to Leverage Student-Produced, Authentic Content

This episode (2 of 4) is part of Enrollment Rx: Strategies to Fill Your Funnel, a four-part series focused on diagnosing and treating common enrollment pipeline challenges. As fall reveals how well your funnel is performing, we’ll help you optimize lead generation, nurture flows, and student engagement. Tune in for…
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August 5, 2025

Speak With One Voice: Getting Students Involved in Enrollment Marketing

This episode (1 of 4) is part of Enrollment Rx: Strategies to Fill Your Funnel, a four-part series focused on diagnosing and treating common enrollment pipeline challenges. As fall reveals how well your funnel is performing, we’ll help you optimize lead generation, nurture flows, and student engagement. Tune in for…
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July 29, 2025

Scaling Connection: How Indiana University Builds Community Before Day One

Episode 213 ZeeMeeSummer Series – Week 4 of 4 In this episode, we talk with Sacha Thieme, Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of Admissions at Indiana University Bloomington. Sacha shares how her team is rethinking student engagement long before day one on campus. From building community at scale to…
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July 23, 2025

Why Community is the New Conversion Tool in Higher Ed Marketing

ZeeMee Summer Series – Week 3 of 4 Building community is your new enrollment strategy. In this episode, Bart Caylor sits down with Vanessa Didyk, CEO of ZeeMee, to explore how student-driven community is transforming the enrollment funnel. Vanessa shares the story behind ZeeMee’s evolution and why today’s students crave…
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July 22, 2025

Why Community is the New Conversion Tool in Higher Ed Marketing

ZeeMeeSummer Series – Week 3 of 4 Building community is your new enrollment strategy. In this episode, Bart Caylor sits down with Vanessa Didyk, CEO of ZeeMee, to explore how student-driven community is transforming the enrollment funnel. Vanessa shares the story behind ZeeMee’s evolution and why today’s students crave authentic…
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July 15, 2025

Flipping the Funnel: How Direct Admissions is Redefining Enrollment Strategy

ZeeMeeSummer Series – Week 2 Episode 211 Dr. James Steen, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing at Houston Christian University, shares how his team is flipping the traditional admissions funnel on its head. We discuss the challenges facing enrollment leaders today, and why HCU launched a bold Guaranteed Admission…
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July 8, 2025

Stop the Melt: Enrollment Innovation

Welcome to the ZeeMeeSummer Series! Episode 210 In this episode of The Higher Ed Marketer, Dr. Jay Jacobs, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at the University of Vermont, shares how bold innovation and cross-campus collaboration are transforming the student journey. From launching the Vermont Pitch Challenge to building internal talent…
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July 1, 2025

Hot Topics, Cool Guests: What’s Happening this Summer Around The Higher Ed Marketer Podcast

The Higher Ed Marketer is heating things up this summer with a special series you won’t want to miss. Powered by our friends at ZeeMee! We’re bringing you four fresh episodes featuring standout voices in higher ed: Jay Jacobs (University of Vermont), James Steen (Houston Christian University), Sacha Thieme (Indiana…
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June 25, 2025

Building Spiritual Infrastructure: Minder of the Mission

The Faith Leaders Mini-Series (4 of 4) In the last episode of the Higher Ed Marketer podcast’s Faith Leaders Series we speak with Dondi Costin, president of Liberty University, about the intersection of Christian faith and higher education. They discuss the importance of leadership in maintaining the mission of the…
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June 17, 2025

Affordable Faith: Rethinking the Cost and Impact of Christian Higher Ed

Faith Leaders Mini-Series – Episode 208 (3 of 4) In this special mini-series, Bart Caylor and Zach Coffin (VP of The Higher Ed Marketer and Pastor) explore the intersection of faith and higher education. Each week they engage in meaningful conversations with Christian higher ed leaders from across the country.…
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June 10, 2025

The Calling to Recruit: Why Faith Still Matters in Higher Ed Marketing

Faith Leaders Mini-Series – Episode 207 (2 of 4) In this special mini-series, Bart Caylor and Zach Coffin (VP of The Higher Ed Marketer and Pastor) explore the intersection of faith and higher education. Each week they engage in meaningful conversations with Christian higher ed leaders from across the country.…
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