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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October 7, 2025

Overcoming a 5 Million Dollar Financial Challenge by Rethinking Strategy

Higher ed is under pressure, and the clock is ticking for leaders to make bold, strategic moves. In this episode, Dr. Jamie Caridi shares how he helped Bethany College overcome deep financial challenges, rebuild trust, and launch a high-impact strategic plan. From reaching economic equilibrium to forming unexpected partnerships, Caridi…
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September 30, 2025

A Higher Ed Comeback Story

When Dr. Dr. Amy Bragg Carey stepped into her role as president of Friends University, the institution was facing financial instability, mission drift, and uncertainty about its identity in Christian higher ed. Nearly a decade later, Friends has achieved record enrollment and reclaimed its Christian mission with clarity and confidence.…
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September 23, 2025

Leading Consistent Brand Strategy Across 19 Campuses

How do you manage and elevate a brand across 19 campuses serving more than 200,000 students? In this episode, Kathie Fleck of Ivy Tech Community College shares how her team is building brand consistency across one of the largest community college systems in the country. From messaging and segmentation to…
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March 28, 2023

Speak With One Voice: Getting Students Involved in Enrollment Marketing

Enrollment marketing teams face new challenges every day as they work tirelessly to attract prospective students. Despite those obstacles, Teresa MacGregor, VP of Enrollment Management at Jacksonville University, and her colleagues are celebrating increased first-time enrollment at their school. And it’s not just because of the campus’s beachfront view. They…
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March 21, 2023

Design Planning: Build a Framework Around Your School’s Identity

The compounding effects of the pandemic and the Great Resignation have left a lot of schools looking for answers. Design planning may be just the solution colleges and universities need to get a broad perspective of their marketing constraints in 2023 and beyond. That’s because, as Errol Wint, Founder of…
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March 21, 2023

Design Planning: Build a Framework Around Your School’s Identity

The compounding effects of the pandemic and the Great Resignation have left a lot of schools looking for answers. Design planning may be just the solution colleges and universities need to get a broad perspective of their marketing constraints in 2023 and beyond. That’s because, as Errol Wint, Founder of…
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March 14, 2023

Shaping Community: How Gen Z Students Are Leading the Way in DEI

DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion — is top-of-mind across marketing channels, not just higher education. That’s because as Gen Z starts to leave school and filter into the workforce, they’re leading the charge of reshaping our culture through a lens of empathy. As Gabrielle Gambrell, adjunct professor at NYU…
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March 7, 2023

The Demographic Enrollment Cliff: Forecasting the Great Dropoff

The proof is in the data pudding: higher education is racing towards a demographic enrollment cliff over the next few decades. Be it due to ethnic, lifestyle, or regional indicators, hundreds of colleges and universities could be facing a long-term enrollment crisis. Tim Fuller, Founder of Fuller Higher Ed Solutions,…
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February 28, 2023

Audience-First Marketing: Understand How Students Discover Your School

Higher ed marketing teams often tout content as an asset, but does content that falls on deaf ears still make a sound? Without a consistent pipeline for their content, creators will suffer depreciating value in what is truly their most significant asset: their target audience. Kyle Campbell, Founder and Managing…
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February 21, 2023

An Audience of One: Make the Prospective Student the Hero of Their Story

As higher ed marketing teams look towards an unpredictable future injected with AI technology, one question is now on everyone’s mind: what qualifies as quality written content? Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and best-selling author of Everybody Writes, believes it’s writing that inspires your reader and makes them…
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February 14, 2023

Audience-Centric Content: Building Relationships Through Engagement

Higher ed marketers all know the struggle of reaching target audiences, but real audience-centric content is in the eye of the beholder. With so many digital mediums to choose from, how can schools know that their brand messaging is what their audience is looking for? Jerra Toms, Director of Marketing…
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February 7, 2023

Leveraging Students as Co-Creators for Your Social Media Content

We’re all still students of social media content creation, but some schools are bringing their A-game when generating content that speaks to Gen Z. Owen Knight, Director of Admission Engagement at Tulane University, shares how he and his team reach their target audience by leaning on their peers – current…
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January 31, 2023

Building a Story Vault: Empowering Storytellers in Your Marketing Process

Alumni and students have so many incredible authentic stories to tell about their colleges and universities. But higher ed marketing teams can sometimes get in their own way by curating those stories till they’re just another batch of overly processed advertisements. People want to hear about real experiences. But if…
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