October… With fall enrollment well underway we pay special attention in this newsletter to recent surveys on what’s most important to high school students and graduate students as they search for schools to attend. No surprise: in both cases, cost is more important than you’d know by visiting most college and university websites. If you don’t […]
UMass Online Gets Competitive Homepage Advantage with a Simple Difference Web visitors have no patience. They want to get right to the task that brought them to a website as quickly as possible. Every second counts. And so a simple difference in the University of Massachusetts Online website at it opens boosts the UMass program […]
April. Not the happy month we were expecting. The April newsletter focuses on the impacts and adjustments from the coronavirus plague. None of us can claim to truly foresee what awaits us. Flexibility is more needed now than ever. Hoping everyone will find something helpful below. Most of all, stay safe. No travel required for […]
June. What I’m thinking about this month are the marketing changes reported in May that are underway at institutions of varied types. Academic program reductions at University of Tulsa, Gordon College, and Wheeling Jesuit University and financial aid reduction (no more “need blind” admissions) at College of the Holy Cross come first to mind. Is […]
Fast, Easy-to-Complete Online Admissions Application from The University of the Pacific How many of your admissions applications are completed on a smartphone? Might more people do that if it were easier to complete? The University of the Pacific first reported on the success of an online admissions application for new freshmen at the AMA Symposium […]
The Need for Website Speed… Importance Grows in 2019… 8 of 45 Higher Ed Sites are “Excellent” Now Website speed review from Unbounce… Many, perhaps most, potential students of every age first come into contact with a particular college or university by visiting the website. Visits often, but by means always, start at the home […]
Strategy vs. Tactics… how a website can kill ROI for a mobile ad campaign Strategy is grand. Agencies love to sell it. Clients love to talk about it. Conferences love to feature it. And every marketing campaign indeed needs a good strategy. But a problem occurs when the tactics of implementing a strategy don’t receive […]
February. And yes, winter will change to spring. Believe. First step to a better website? Read Gerry McGovern’s new book: Top Tasks – a How-to Guide before you set content priorities. The first chapter is here. Updating your website in 2019? Find out what potential students like and dislike about your current site before making changes. Feedback in […]
December. The holiday season is upon us. Early admissions deadlines are past us. And the closing months of the 2019 recruitment cycle for high school students are not far ahead. Intense times for applying tuition discounts, generating final campus visits, and counting enrollment deposits. Good luck to everyone. The Call for Papers for the eduWeb Digital […]
Students, alumni rate individual academic programs on the Concordia website… innovation to impact student recruitment Today we conclude our interview with Seth Meranda, director of marketing and communication at Concordia University, Nebraska about the unusual step Concordia has taken to include real critiques in 11 areas with the website content for each academic program. From a […]
Home Page Primary Purpose? At Arizona State University, Student Recruitment Takes First Place Last week a new ranking of higher education websites appeared… the “25 Best University Websites for 2018.” Turns out the best 25 were selected after a review of the 50 largest public universities in the U.S. So while the search for the […]
GDPR Compliance Content that Everyone Can Understand from University of St. Francis Earlier in the year Campus Technology magazine tried to get feedback for a May article from 5 universities that had “GDPR working groups” to find out how things were going re compliance with GDPR regulations from the European Union. The magazine had no […]