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Interview with Don Hossler: Tracking Pathways of Enrollment to Make Data-Based Decisions

The Lawlor Group. Interview with Don Hossler.

Amy Foster
Editor, The Lawlor Group

Don Hossler is a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington and a nationally recognized expert in the areas of student college choice, persistence, enrollment management, and higher education finance…

Don, when you present at professional conferences, what are some of the common questions you get asked by enrollment managers in the audience?

It’s often about how to better access Clearinghouse reports, which to me speaks to the growing recognition of the power of the data. People are basically saying things like, “It’s wonderful that you send us… Continue reading

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Three college admissions lessons from a decade of work in student success

Catherine Sloan, Program Development Coordinator, InsideTrack

Catherine Sloan
Program Development Coordinator
InsideTrack

I’ve worked closely with students for more than 10 years, both in professional student coaching and enrollment management. Over this time, I’ve learned many lessons about how the admissions process impacts long-term student success. Below are a few of the insights I like to share when training new coaches to effectively support prospective students at traditional universities. These insights are focused on helping coaches form early, meaningful, and lasting relationships with students, which in turn lead to successful outcomes.

Summer melt isn’t always a bad thing

It’s important to keep students… Continue reading

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Customized Pricing in Higher Education

The Lawlor Group

By John Lawlor

Tis the season for the college spring, that period of time when the higher education marketplace is focused on price and the accompanying cost to attend college. While colleges struggle with finding the right price to charge, students and families are on a quest to find the best price to pay. What often seems to be lost in the reenactment of the game show “The Price is Right” is that higher education has been practicing a form of customized differential pricing for quite some time—it just hasn’t been communicated very effectively.

This week we offer a… Continue reading

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