Alumni & Students Rate Academic Programs at Concordia University, Nebraska In June a Link of the Week featured student critiques of the online education program at Western Governors University. Gerry McGovern at a higher education conference in Spain had asked: “Where are the authentic student reviews on university websites?” Almost no colleges and universities include […]
August, and here in Michigan the proverbial “dog days” of summer have arrived. Legend says they will pass by August 11, well in time for summer move in days for new freshmen at residential colleges. We shall hope. Welcome to our 8 new subscribers since August 1. If you know someone who might like to […]
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 […]
“25 Best University Websites for 2018” That’s the misleading title of a Tweet that took me to an article by Jay Baer, “founder of Convince & Convert, a digital marketing company.” Why is the title misleading? Baer reviewed websites at the 50 largest public universities in the U.S. From those, 25 were selected as ‘best” […]
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 […]
Colorado College Home Page Features 8 “CC Stories” “Storytelling” is hot in the marketing world. See, for instance, “Storytelling is the future of Content Marketing strategy in 2018” from Smart Insights. That said, it is unusual to find “storytelling” content given the prominence on college and university websites that it receives at Colorado College. The […]
July. Canada Day and July 4th celebrations are behind us. Final enrollment efforts for 2018 freshmen continue as the new campaign for 2019 unfolds. Admissions offices never rest. This is the first monthly newsletter sent via MailChimp. If you experience any problems, let me know. The format continues close to the original. MailChimp shows me […]
Easy-to-Scan Davidson College Career Outcomes Site with Results by Individual Majors Learning about college and university career results in a top task increasing in importance at a time when article questioning the value of a college education are increasingly easy to find. Most people still believe a college education is important. But what about results […]
June. For most colleges and universities here in the U.S. deposit conversion efforts for new students continue as nearly everyone also works to limit “summer melt” from existing commitments. Not fun. But critical. Best wishes to everyone for success these next weeks. A note on our email delivery service. At the end of June, TargetX, the long-time […]
Slow Websites Lose Visitors… No Matter How Many Awards are Won Everyone like to win design awards. Especially the agencies that win client awards for creative advertising campaigns. And creative websites. And clients deserve to celebrate awards that recognize the effort that inevitably goes into creating a new site. But alas, when “the need for […]
“Find Your Major” at West Virginia University Offers Great… and Not So Great… Results A top task for virtually every potential student is finding out whether or not a university that interests them offers an academic program that interests them. If it does not, most people will move along to another school. West Virginia University […]
May. At long last the warm weather has arrived. And so too has deposit day for new freshmen. May you reach your goal. And may your summer melt be low. Review of email and social media from online MBA programs at American, Dayton, and Syracuse universities and Simmons College continues. In the 6th installment are 34 Syracuse […]