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Presidential exits: Some leave on a high note, others entrenched in scandal

University Business

William Craft — Concordia College Walking out of academia hand in hand with his wife, William “Bill” Craft will be leaving behind a nearly pitch-perfect presidency during which he led the Minnesota school’s largest fundraising effort, garnering more than $157 million—exceeding the target by $7 million eight months early.

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A Beginner’s Guide to AI in Annual Giving

EAB

You can use a tool like ChatGPT and provide it with your campaign plan (donor segments, fundraising goals, institution information, etc.) Student Affairs, Finance, Institutional Research, Schools and Colleges, etc.) Say you want to develop a new email series for your Calendar Year-End campaign. and external parties (ie.

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Grad Students Should Consider Administrative Work

Higher Ed Connects: News

Institutional research staff members collect and assess data about the college to help with internal decision making and to inform external audiences. Their work focuses on analyzing enrollment, staffing and financial data about the institution. Program assessment is another responsibility of institutional research offices.

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What does a data management platform actually do?

EAB

Edify serves as a data hub for all of the systems that higher ed already uses, from enrollment and fundraising CRMs to student success platforms. Many institutions have a staff member whose primary function is to complete such reports. EAB's data management platform, Edify , is built specifically for higher education.

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EAB Strategic Advisory Services Extends Breadth and Depth of Coverage

EAB

Institutional research teams are often stretched too thin to provide the level of insight needed to effectively make decisions about new program offerings or provide the data needed to help PCO leaders understand how well previous investments are performing. To learn more about participating in AIPI reach out to your Strategic Leader.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.