Archive for the ‘Admission Office’ Category

eduWeb 2008 in 140 words: High Tech and High Touch: Integrating the Web and Print Using Variable Print Technology by Dr. Cam Cruickshank, VP for Enrollment Management at Tiffin University

Note from Karine: This year, Iâ€™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 […]

Live blogging from eduWeb 2008 – Circling Over Enrollment: The E-Expectations of Parents by Stephanie Geyer from Noel-Levitz

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 […]

eduWeb 2008 in 140 words – You Have Faculty Using Technology to Market? Are You Kidding Me? by Dr. Greg Williams, Assistant Professor and Director at UMBC

Note from Karine: This year, Iâ€™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. Here are the main â€œtake-awaysâ€ from […]

Are you hiring? Post your higher ed job ad for free at www.higheredexperts.com/jobs

Happy Independence Day to my readers in the US! If you’re looking for independence, a new job (or a new skilled team member) might be the way to go (I know that’s kind of a lame transition). It’s been a few months since I decided to work on a better solution than the Higher Ed […]

Higher Ed Magazines: Gone Digital, Going Paperless?

My third UB column for 2008 is now available in the June issue as well as online: “Magazines: Gone Digital, Going Paperless?” You’ll find in this column 4 tips from several of your peers (including Karl Bates from Duke University and Bonny Griffith from Ithaca College) to get you started. With the help of this […]

Get the report about the state of advertising and sponsorship in print and electronic higher ed publications

Some of you might remember that a few weeks ago I conducted an online survey to find out if and how paid advertising and sponsorship are used in magazines and newsletters published by universities and colleges. A total of 110 professionals working in institutions representing more than 1.5 million students completed this online survey between […]

Cast your vote for the eduStyle CollegeWebEditor.com Best Institutional and Students Blogs Awards by May 31st

Have you voted for the best institutional and student blogs eduStyle Collegewebeditor.com awards? Not yet? This (long) post composed of 4 interviews should help. Recently, I’ve contacted the people in charge of the 6 nominated blogs and asked a few questions to help you learn more about these blogs and cast your vote. Out of […]

Higher Ed TV: LonelyGirl15 meets Real Nebraska’s David Burge with “That Bauer Girl” from the CT Bauer College of Business

It looks like higher ed Youtube videos are really starting to become a genre. This new video series I’m posting about today really reminds me of Real Nebraska – presented by David Burge – with a twist. Here, the host isn’t a bald funny guy (no offense, David), but Veronica, a student whose long brown […]

Higher Ed Bloggers edit and fact check the Chronicle of Higher Education

Yes, you’ve read my headline correctly: bloggers editing and fact checking the main media outlet covering higher education in the US. So, what do I mean exactly? In the past weeks, two posts from two different higher ed bloggers have questioned some of the facts reported in two different articles published by the Chronicle. Andy […]

US News Report launches its Facebook app for students applying to graduate school: Gradzilla

Quick post with some “breaking news.” The US News & World Report has just launched its Facebook application — as announced 2 months ago on this blog. Go have a look and let us know what you think.

The State of Higher Ed Podcasting in the US: Thoughts, links and a recording

I had a very interesting experience this morning presenting a session about higher ed podcasting in the US to a room full of people at the University of Warwick in the UK. No long flight or dreadful jet lag required (but no nice sightseeing in the UK either :-). I did my presentation using WebEx […]

Targeting the prospective student of the future? Add a strong Web component to your TV mix

Today’s kids are tomorrow’s prospective college students, right? That’s why “The Kids’ Social Networking Study,” a study conducted by Grunwald Associates LLC and released earlier this week, could be particularly interesting as higher ed institutions start to work on their next marketing strategy to face the upcoming decrease in the prospective student pool. The study […]

Higher Ed TV: MIT Tech TV, a YouTube-clone for the Geeks?

How can you make your students and faculty members share their work and research with the world? Give them the right tools: their own dedicated video-sharing website. That’s what MIT is doing with MIT Tech TV, its own YouTube clone complete with video-sharing capabilities (including email and embedding code) and community-building features such as video […]

2007 Reader Survey Results and Amazon Certificate Winner

So, this blog’s reader survey has just ended. And, the lucky winner of the $30 Gift certificate is… Jonathan Steffens from University of Missouri-Columbia. Congratulations and thank to the 91 readers who took the time to do the survey between December 12, 2007 and January 10, 2008. With the 86,047 (70% more than last year) […]