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Adult learners: Who they are & what they want from college

EAB

Get more information For more on recruiting adult student populations, including graduate students, subscribe to the Professional and Adult Education Blog. In our 2023 survey of adult learners , respondents identified financial aid, scholarships, and cost of attendance among the top factors they consider when making an enrollment decision.

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Secret Shoppers and Audience Awareness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Education Department is planning to deploy “secret shoppers ” to colleges around the country to suss out deceptive and predatory practices, particularly around financial aid. The office most colleges called the bursar was instead called the cashier.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

Unfortunately, many higher education practices complicate first-gen students’ ability to stay through graduation or even apply. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Her mother was a first-gen student while she was a first-gen ‘traditional” student.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: One-stop services are not new to higher education. For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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Survey data show disparities in college course registration holds

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Gottlieb says these aren’t always bad news for students, either: “Sometimes it means that the student hasn’t shown up in Financial Aid to sign their promissory note.” ” More difficult are financial holds due to large balances that students must pay on their own. She made it by two days.

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The Eight Dimensions of Student Wellness

EAB

And what they're asking was for the different factors that might have compelled a student to consider stopping out of their education. We can think about the Financial Aid Office. Did you know your bursar is a wellness office? They've been polling students since fall of 2020. We can think about Red's life.

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