June 6, 2023

As a veteran of the newspaper business, Jaime Hunt, Vice President for University Communications and CMO at Old Dominion University, has seen firsthand how resisting change can destroy industries.    That’s why she believes higher ed institutions and organizations need to hit the pause button on banning ChatGPT and other…

May 30, 2023

When evaluating a school’s content marketing system (CMS), it’s easy for higher ed marketers to get tunnel vision when defining their target audience. But as Kat Liendgens, CEO of Hannon Hill, reminds us, the national pool of traditional college students is shrinking fast. That means marketing teams need to get…

May 23, 2023

So many small and mid-sized colleges and universities are caught up in trying to spread brand awareness that they’ve forgotten their core purpose — meeting the needs of prospective students. Philip Smith, Founder and CMO of Education Marketing Agency, thinks it’s time for higher ed institutions to stop trying to…

May 16, 2023

Since 2017, the Pepperdine University – Graduate School of Education & Psychology has nearly tripled its enrollment from about 1,500 students to over 4,000. So how did they do it? According to Luke Phillips, the school’s Executive Director of Marketing and Enrollment, they did it by avoiding the weeds and…

May 9, 2023

Mission-fit storytelling is an essential piece of higher ed content marketing. That sounds straightforward on paper, but many schools struggle to attract students by meeting them where they are. Neal Foard, Chief Marketing Officer at Within, Inc., thinks too many marketing teams are adrift in a sea of algorithms and…

May 2, 2023

Despite digital marketing’s evident impact on prospective students, social media managers are still some of the most undersupported members of many higher ed marketing teams. Any school administration should be able to clearly see Gen Z’s appetite for digital content, so why do these disconnects continue to happen? According to…

April 25, 2023

Community colleges are the front door of higher education for hundreds of thousands of students annually. They may be smaller than their 4-year counterparts, but schools like Butler Community College are leading the charge in innovating classrooms and workforce development programs. How are they doing it? It’s simple — by…

April 18, 2023

Peer-to-peer marketing may be one of the most underutilized strategies for American colleges and universities today. Several studies show that current students are Gen Z’s most preferred source of information about prospective colleges and universities after school websites. Many students are ready and willing to answer their fellow Gen Z’s…

April 11, 2023

As regenerative AI takes the marketing world by storm, enrollment marketing teams continue to look for ways to boost engagement with prospective students. David Tal, Co-founder and CEO of Verse.io, suggests there’s a straightforward solution to getting your school’s message to student leads — and it’s already sitting in their…

April 4, 2023

Higher ed marketers often get so caught up in promotion that they take a backseat in developing the other core components of their school’s brand. But as Carrie Phillips, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at the University of Arkansas – Little Rock, pointed out, marketers have the power to be…

March 28, 2023

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…

March 21, 2023

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…