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It still surprises me a little when traditional undergraduate recruiting teams bristle at the word “sales”. It surprises me a lot when adult and part-time graduate recruiting teams bristle at the word. As a person who was raised in the Admissions hey-day of the 1980’s when all we had to do was open the doors, [...]

» Click to enlarge Making College Tuition Worth Every Euro What does Italian food, college admissions and development have in common? When the marketing is matched by the end result, cost in not an obstacle. I have just returned from traveling in Italy with my wife, where we celebrated our 25th anniversary. Before we left [...]

We’ve just conducted a survey of colleges and universities to find out whether they have a mobile website that is optimized for smart phones. Our results were pretty much what we expected. The majority do not yet have a website set up for handheld devices For those who do not have a mobile site yet, [...]

Enrollment Research Survey: Results We kept hearing that the downturn in the economy and escalation of the unemployment rate has had a dramatic effect on the applications and enrollments at many colleges.  Dramatic can be a good or a bad thing, so to find out what’s really happening out there in enrollment we did what [...]

Social Parasite or Friend? Did you see the article “Top recruit quits Facebook following ‘living nightmare’” by Cameron Smith, a Yahoo! Sports blogger?  The article talks about how the high school student, who has been dubbed the top football recruit in the country, felt he had to shut down his Facebook account because the assault [...]