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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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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September 3, 2024
Amplify Student Voices: Let Them Tell Their Stories
How often do you find yourself wondering what your school’s marketing messaging should be? What are your prospective students interested in? What do they see that sets your institution apart? The easiest way to hear your students’ stories is from the students themselves. We’re chatting with Kathy Howell and Kathy…
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August 27, 2024
How to Include Donor Stories in Your Marketing Campaigns
In 2021, Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, received a record-breaking $100 million gift from an anonymous donor. So how did Kenyon’s marketing department creatively share the story of this generous anonymous donor while emphasizing the importance of gifts at every level? Kenyon’s Vice President for Advancement, Colleen Garland, and Vice…
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August 20, 2024
Messaging Modalities, Personas, and Strategic Actions
Take another trip back in time with us as we revisit another compelling episode of the Higher Ed Marketer Podcast. In 2022, Jay Baer, Business Growth and Customer Experience Researcher — and tequila sommelier — shared his three essential keys to marketing with us. By identifying audience personas and adapting…
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August 13, 2024
The Enrollment Cliff: Tim Fuller’s Perspective
In early 2023, Bart’s mentor and a dear friend of the show, Tim Fuller, joined us for an insightful conversation about the demographic enrollment cliff. Tim unexpectedly passed away a few short months after this episode originally aired. As a lifelong advocate for higher education, Tim’s passion for helping academic…
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August 6, 2024
Advancement as a Revenue Driver: Strategies for Alumni Engagement
The Advancement team often wears many different hats across multiple departments, but one common goal is building relationships and raising funds. By walking through life with alumni via a mentorship program or sending out a QR code to find out generational preferences, you can understand your alumni and donors on…
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July 30, 2024
Tackling the Enrollment Cliff Through Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
With the field of higher education changing day by day, it’s crucial to implement different strategies and initiatives to stay ahead of the enrollment cliff. By engaging faculty in yield efforts, geofencing, and keeping web pages up to date, you can set your institution to be ahead of the curve. …
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July 23, 2024
Programmatic Advertising Tactics: Success Through Patience and Precision
Programmatic advertising is more than just finding those “watering holes” — the places your prospective students typically hang out. It takes locating where your audience is coming from, testing out new marketing, and exercising patience when waiting for the results. Programmatic advertising doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It still requires intentionality…
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July 23, 2024
Programmatic Advertising Tactics: Success Through Patience and Precision
Programmatic advertising is more than just finding those “watering holes” — the places your prospective students typically hang out. It takes locating where your audience is coming from, testing out new marketing, and exercising patience when waiting for the results. Programmatic advertising doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It still requires intentionality…
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July 16, 2024
Admitted Student Research: Data Insights and Unexpected Encounters
By surveying attending students and students who decided to go elsewhere, your institution can give your admissions team additional data to help streamline their processes. But the research doesn’t stop there! Considering outside influencers like parents, coaches, and other trusted adults can bring a unique perspective of comparative analysis. We’re…
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July 9, 2024
Generative AI at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt University is at the forefront of Generative Artificial Intelligence. AI is not going away, but it can be understood through intentional time and effort. By destigmatizing generative AI at your institution, you may just broaden your impact to set your students and staff one step ahead of the game.…
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