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How your future students’ needs are changing in 5 big ways

University Business

. “Prospective students are shrewd consumers, and the factors that influence their choice in postsecondary education have grown more diverse,” says Amir Rasool, Hanover Research’s senior managing director. Communication preferences.

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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Over the past few decades, libraries have shifted attention from primarily instruction work toward purposeful collaborations in first-year programming. An older model among libraries is coming into classrooms like an English 101 course or a first-year seminar to share information.