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.
Behind the Microphone
January 20, 2026
Your Digital Front Door, Aligning Website Redesign With Strategy
Your website is not just a marketing asset, it is the front door to your institution. In this Season 8 premiere, Meaghan Milliorn shares how the University of Arkansas at Little Rock approached a massive website redesign with strategy, accessibility, and governance at the center. From reducing thousands of pages…
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January 13, 2026
Season 8 – Taking the Next Right Step
Season 8 of The Higher Ed Marketer Podcast opens with encouragement for higher ed leaders entering a new year with both opportunity and uncertainty ahead. This season is grounded in the belief that progress does not require a perfect plan, only clarity, trust, and the willingness to move forward one…
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Bart
Caylor
President & Founder
June 29, 2021
Proven Strategies to Help the Next Generation Thrive w/ Mark McCrindle
Generation Z is sitting in your classroom right now. Next up? Generation Alpha — the children of the Millennials. Alphas constitute the largest generation in history. They’re highly digitally supplied, formally educated, and materially in doubt. …And they’re about to come to your college’s recruitment office. Mark McCrindle, Founder and…
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June 22, 2021
Finding Unique Identifiers: Marketing & Small Colleges w/ Dan Sanchez
With so many competing small colleges, it’s important to highlight what makes a specific college special. Whether it be ocean front property, close to the mountains, or offering a special major, the unique characteristics can make all the difference. Dan Sanchez, Director of Audience Growth at SweetFish Media and formerly…
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June 15, 2021
Our Top Ten Tips from Ten Extraordinary Episodes
Whether you’re brand new to listening, or have been here since the beginning, you don’t have to search for the best nuggets of information… because they’re all in this episode, hand selected for you! In this episode of The Higher Ed Marketer, Troy Singer, Senior Account Executive at Think Patented,…
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June 8, 2021
Accessible Admissions Starts with Reducing Friction
When you’re looking at changing the “way we’ve always done it,” you’re working to remove barriers and ultimately move your organization forward. Being able to then communicate change as an advantage to both prospective students and internal stakeholders is a challenge. But it’s an important one for driving growth. In…
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June 1, 2021
Why You Should Be Outcome-Oriented in Community College Marketing
Marketing for community colleges has long focused on affordability and transferability. But in this episode, Jeffrey Fanter, VP Marketing & Communications at Ivy Tech Community College, explains why community colleges should establish that they are not just launching pads for an education, but also launching pads for a career as…
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May 25, 2021
Dog Tours & Tik-Tok Sessions: Getting Creative with College Tours
COVID has hit higher education recruiting hard. People have spent so much time on Zoom calls that colleges and universities are having to get far more creative than just hosting a Zoom webinar in place of a college tour. Pair that with the reduced travel for recruitment, ACT and SAT…
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May 18, 2021
The Magic Is in the Messaging: Content Creation for Higher Ed Marketing
Content is where marketing is headed. How can marketers in higher education mass produce content that is relevant, applicable, and interesting to prospective students? In this episode of The Higher Ed Marketer, Bart Caylor, President & Founder at Caylor Solutions Inc, and Troy Singer, Senior Account Executive at Think Patented,…
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May 11, 2021
Campus Campaigns That Work: How to Include Donor Stories in Your Marketing
Earlier this year Kenyon College received a record-breaking $100 million gift from an anonymous donor. Kenyon’s marketing department was then faced with the challenge of how to tell the story of this generous anonymous donor while also explaining why gifts at every level are important. In this episode of The…
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May 4, 2021
More Than Just Words: How Your Marketing Strategy Can Promote Equity
Those universities that prepared to go virtual and did it well are now reaping the benefits of the trust that they earned from parents and students. What sets those schools apart from others? In this episode of The Higher Ed Marketer, Bart Caylor, President & Founder at Caylor Solutions Inc,…
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April 27, 2021
Show, Don’t Tell: The Power of Video in Higher Ed Marketing
Small to medium sized colleges, a lot of them private, all experience the challenge of trying to differentiate from public and other private schools. This challenge makes it even more critical for colleges to align their marketing in a way that can impact the major driver of institutional revenue and…
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April 20, 2021
Messaging for the Individual: How Data Can Help You Create Engaging Stories (Part 2)
How do we help uncover and explain the most informative and persuasive information to prospective students? How do we tell stories that get them excited about education? We start by finding and utilizing data, analyzing that data, and then creating segmented marketing messages that will move the needle. In part…
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April 13, 2021
Messaging for the Individual: How Data Can Help You Create Engaging Stories (Part 1)
How do we help uncover and explain the most informative and persuasive information to prospective students? How do we tell stories that get them excited about education? We start by finding and utilizing data, analyzing that data, and then creating segmented marketing messages that will move the needle. Bart Caylor,…
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