Enrollment Management

February 26, 2026Enrollment Management

The End of Grad PLUS: What It Might Mean for Liberal Arts Colleges

For decades, Graduate PLUS loans functioned as higher education’s hidden enrollment tool. When a student was accepted to law school, business school, or a master’s program and tuition exceeded what […]

February 18, 2026February 19, 2026Enrollment Management

The New Federal Student Loan Framework – Are You Paying Attention?

If you work in higher education enrollment, you’ve heard about the July 1, 2026, implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) regarding federal student and PLUS loans. But […]

February 9, 2026February 19, 2026Enrollment Management

Career Outcomes: The Enrollment Asset We Need

I once ran a report that indicated that we sent 17 million emails during a student recruitment year-long cycle. Seventeen million personalized messages, carefully timed drip campaigns, sophisticated segmentation strategies. […]

January 14, 2026February 19, 2026Enrollment Management

Generation Alpha is Almost Here

A few years ago, I attended a conference where a demographer presented enrollment projections for the next decade. The data was sobering, but one slide especially caught my attention: Generation […]

January 12, 2026February 19, 2026Enrollment Management

The New Playbook

Private colleges and universities face unprecedented challenges. The demographic cliff isn’t coming; it’s here. Public skepticism about higher education’s value is real. The business model seems broken. Competition for students […]

December 19, 2025February 19, 2026Enrollment Management

Strategic Board Oversight

The enrollment report arrives in board packets or posts on BoardEffect. Applications, deposits, class size, discount rate. Trustees review numbers, ask clarifying questions, move forward. The assumption holds: enrollment is […]

December 19, 2025February 19, 2026Enrollment Management

Finding Your Leverage Points

Demographic headwinds. Discount pressure. Market erosion. Presidential urgency. Board questions. Faculty anxiety. You seem to have responsibility for institutional sustainability without authority over most factors determining it. You didn’t create […]

November 26, 2025February 19, 2026Enrollment Management

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