by Bart Caylor | Jul 24, 2025 | Featured, Strategies, Podcast, Tools
Summer melt is one of the most frustrating challenges enrollment teams face today. You spend months cultivating relationships with prospective students. You invest in nurturing them through the funnel—from first inquiry to deposit—and just when you think your incoming...
by Bart Caylor | Jul 10, 2025 | Featured, Strategies, Podcast
Innovating enrollment is no longer optional—it’s essential for institutions facing rising costs, shifting demographics, and increasingly selective students. Higher education marketing and enrollment teams face no shortage of challenges in today’s...
by Bart Caylor | Jul 7, 2025 | Leveraging AI, Featured, Higher Ed Marketing, Ideas, Future of Higher Ed, Strategies, Tools
AI-driven student journeys could soon become a defining feature of how colleges and universities engage prospective students. It’s not fully the norm yet—but it’s coming. And for small teams managing tight budgets and increasing enrollment pressure, this emerging...
by Bart Caylor | Jul 3, 2025 | Featured, Strategies, Podcast, Teams
Mission-first leadership is more than a management philosophy—it’s a spiritual and strategic anchor that keeps institutions grounded in their purpose. As colleges and universities navigate cultural shifts, operational challenges, and market competition, it’s easy to...
by Bart Caylor | Jun 30, 2025 | Strategies, Featured, Future of Higher Ed, Tools
AI-driven chatbots are transforming how colleges and universities connect with prospective students, current students, and alumni—but can they do it authentically? If you’re working at a small, private institution, you already know the challenge. Your team is doing...
by Bart Caylor | Jun 26, 2025 | Enrollment, Featured, Higher Ed Marketing, Strategies
Higher education is no longer about lecture halls and textbooks. Today, students want a more dynamic and applicable educational experience. Take gap year programs for example, these are programs that many high school graduates seek. In fact, rising interest in these...
