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How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt-out”

EAB

How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt out”. As the number of traditional-aged students continues to decline, community college leaders must focus on enrollment and recruitment strategies within their control. Source: EAB analysis of American Community Survey data.

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Near-Term Strategies to Combat Transfer Decline

EAB

Knowing how to turn the tide can feel impossible—not to mention that increasing competition in the transfer recruitment space continues to crowd an already crowded market. I’m currently enrolled at a CC (technical college). But things aren’t all doom and gloom. I’m so confused. I’m enrolled in their transfer program for psychology.

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A Fresh Admission Strategy to Hit Goals

Parchment

You need an easy-to-use way to automate high volumes of data from various digital platforms, direct communications, and events. In contrast, enrollment in the public college sector declined by 5% with community colleges losing 351,000 students since 2020. Has our school marketing performed as planned?

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How to Create a Credit Mobility Culture

Parchment

You’re making me pay to, to go back to communicate something that I know that I know this and so that barrier is very real for people, right? But I also know that the industry at large, when you served a more 18 to 22-year-old traditional market, you weren’t thinking about transfer. That is a tremendous market right now.

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A Research-Based Look at Stackable Credentials

Parchment

We were working with colleges 10 years ago who are building community college baccalaureate programs. So these are, you know, bachelor’s degrees program at community colleges. All of this stuff is going on in colleges. And so I’ll give an example. And so it is all one in the same.

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Student Transfer (Part 2) – How to Improve the Transfer Experience for Students

Parchment

And we talked about there’s a lot of students that are attending a community college that want to transfer to another institution, but don’t end up doing it. Eight out of 10 students that go to a community college want to go. Like if I get all these wraparound services, Heather (11:12.749) Mm-hmm.

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