News and Tips for Higher Ed Pros

Do you Twitter?
I do (feel free to follow me @karinejoly) as more and more people in the web and PR higher ed world.
But, what about our prospective students or their parents? Do they?
We’ll probably find out in a few months by measuring the success of an initiative Colgate University has just launched, as Charlie [...]

Last July at the eduWeb conference, Stephanie Geyer, Associate VP for E-communications and Web Strategy at Noel-Levitz, presented the results of a recent online survey her company conducted in June 2008 with 454 parents.

At that time in a blog post titled “Live blogging from eduWeb 2008 - Circling Over Enrollment: The E-Expectations of Parents by [...]

Note from Karine: This year, I’ve asked all the eduWeb speakers working in universities/colleges to share in 140 words or less the biggest take-away from their presentation or table talk. If you’ve attended this session, feel free to weigh in by posting a comment, a question or a suggestion.
Variable print technology is revolutionizing the way [...]

Stephanie Geyer, Associate VP for E-communications and Web Strategy at Noel-Levitz, presented the results of a recent online survey her company conducted just last month with 454 (helicopter) parents.
Results were just released last Saturday, so this is fresh from the oven.
What she said confirms what most of the people working in admissions have learned to [...]

Jonathan Steffens, one of this year’s guest bloggers, sat this morning in the first session presented by Lori Packer from the University of Rochester: “These Kids Today: Testing Usability with parents and incoming students.” This is Jonathan’s first HighEdWebDev post.
Lori Packer of the University of Rochester, began HEWD with hat trick as committee organizers, [...]

While more and more universities and colleges are looking into the opportunities offered by the third-party social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook or by private social networking applications offered by vendors, Elon University has chosen a DIY approach.
Over the course of 4 months, a team of four built what now looks like [...]

I knew admissions-sponsored blogging was a hot topic when I originally asked Nancy Prater and Ben Jones if they would present a webinar to share their experience and know-how.

What I didn’t know is that both would be quoted extensively in an Associated Press story written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and published in many newspapers and other [...]

Last week, I posted about a survey report released by College Parents of America, a national “association dedicated to advocating and to serving on behalf of current and future college parents.” At that time, I noticed on the homepage of the association website a link to its blog: “Hoverings, A Blog for College Parents.”
Launched [...]

I’ve already posted about helicopter parents, this new breed of college parents.
It’s difficult to ignore them when you work on a campus. And, we shouldn’t.
Never has a generation of parents been so involved in their kids college life, which is why they have become one of our main target audiences (the fact that [...]

Great article about helicopter parents this week in Newsweek: “The Fine Art of Letting Go.”

If you have time, this is definitely a good read.
Something I found very interesting in this piece, written by Barbara Kantrowitz and Peg Tyre, is that it illustrates the concept of helicopter parents pretty well with great examples [...]