Enrollment Growth University: Higher Education

Dr. Mathew Isaac, Professor of Marketing at Seattle University, joins the podcast to discuss the recent research on how the religious language institutions use does in fact impact prospective students’ academic perceptions.

Stephanie Mullins, Associate Director at BlueSky Education, joins the podcast to discuss the value of high-impact media relations as an enrollment growth strategy — even in a social world where institutions can control their own storytelling channels.

Dr. Phyllis Robinson, Professor of Biological Sciences at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, joins the podcast to discuss UMBC’s intentional and industry-leading success in retaining diverse students within STEM programs and how other institutions can do the same. Take a look at this research backing the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.

Dr. Andrew Gillen, Senior Policy Analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss why the College Scorecard might start making program reputation an even stronger signal for students than the overall brand reputation of a university.

Dr. Paul Hanstedt, Director of the Houston H. Harte Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington and Lee University and author of Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses For a Complex World, joins the podcast to discuss the current expectations students have of our grad programs and how to make sure they are as missionally exciting as the start-up options our prospective students may have right now instead.

Dr. Robert Talbert, Professor at Grand Valley State University and author of the book Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty, returns to the show to talk about the current distance between MOOC course design and most universities’ online programs — and how to make sure our programs stack up well.

Dr. Tanya Spilovoy, Director of Open Policy at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), joins the podcast to talk about institutional strategies for retaining our student mothers.

Ray Schroeder, Senior Fellow at both University of Illinois Springfield and UPCEA, returns to the show to remind us of higher ed’s previous toe-dips into the metaverse back in the early 2000s and how institutions might start positioning themselves for the metaverse future that so many tech companies seem bent on bringing us to.

Peter Samuelson, President at Ardeo Education Solutions, joins the podcast to walk through the economics and enrollment impact of loan repayment assistance programs (LRAPs).

Chelsea Waite, Senior Researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins the podcast to discuss the research and student outcomes benefits of peer tutoring initiatives.