Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new study published in Education Next shows that high school guidance counselors one standard deviation more effective than the median graduate students 1.7% more likely to attend a four-year college, 1.4% more likely to persist in college into a second year, and 1.3% more likely to graduate college.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Park University is placing that bet with a big new marketing promotion advertising their institution as a gap year destination where students can continue their online studies, for a flat $9,000 tuition rate. And then of course, they can transfer right back again, once the pandemic allows.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with so many institutions focused on upgrading their online instruction experience, who’s focusing on solving the community issue? Because while we want to make our online experience as wonderful as possible, perhaps our community was the experience. More so than our classes. More so than our lectures. More so than our exams.

Reported by EdSurge, while institutions are doing everything they can to retain the students who were originally planning on fall, they’re also thinking about other incentives they’ll likely need to offer to make their class.

Reported by Education Dive, when we look at past year’s enrollment funnels to forecast, we must remember how unlike last year this year is. That past results were never a guarantee of future performance, but oh how much even less today.

Reported by EdSurge, calling your college’s general number right now may show off our deep and very dysfunctional communication best practices – and worst of all, right on the very front lines where students see them the clearest. Many university phone lines are going straight to voicemail. And students with urgent questions are being left unanswered.

Will a COVID gap year end up being an all too common note on student’s resumes and transcripts moving forward?

And if so, how can students make the most of their gap story?

Is our brand language inherently COVID un-friendly?

Small class sizes. Intimate community. The poster language for our brands may also be the scariest sounding for someone looking to safely return to class this fall.

Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, federal coronavirus relief aid was distributed based on full-time equivalent (FTE) students instead of total student head count. That means that Amarillo College, serving 10,000 undergraduate students in the Texas panhandle received the same relief dollars as Brown University, an ivy league school in Providence, Rhode Island, enrolling about 7,000 students.

Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, many faculty have struggled with recreating the intimacy of the small discussion-based seminar online.