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New Ways for Community Colleges to Achieve Enrollment Goals

New Ways for Community Colleges to Achieve Enrollment Goals

Since the start of the pandemic, community college enrollment is experiencing a significant decline across the nation. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data shows an 18.9% decrease in enrollment at community colleges, compared to 10.5% at...
Don’t Open This Email: How to Talk to a Brain

Don’t Open This Email: How to Talk to a Brain

In today’s world of social media, 24-hour news, and all the other kinds of virtually endless information, there’s really only one commodity that matters: your attention. Since at least 2000, when The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business was...
Gender Marketing: How Men and Women Receive Messages Differently

Gender Marketing: How Men and Women Receive Messages Differently

Gloria Moss’s Gender, Design and Marketing: How Gender Drives our Perception of Design and Marketing offers some critical information on how differences in gender affect how companies reach out to potential customers. In the past, research on gender differences has...

How Do Predictive Engines Work in Higher Ed?

We know that Envision, Capture Higher Ed’s cutting-edge predictive engine for higher education, makes predictions. We know that Envision needs student record data to make those predictions. But what happens between feeding student data in and getting predictions...
How Do Machines Think? Learning About Machine Learning

How Do Machines Think? Learning About Machine Learning

From our next generation marketing automation that is streamlining university advancement to our other high tech tools for higher education, machine learning (or artificial intelligence) is woven into everything we do at Capture Higher Ed. The technology drives our...
How to Save Thousands on Your Direct Mail Spend

How to Save Thousands on Your Direct Mail Spend

At Capture Higher Ed we talk a lot about spending smarter instead of spending more — that there are diminishing returns to just pouring more money into student recruitment and hoping to get more students. In the admissions office, direct mail is the poster child for...
A Case for Experimentation in Enrollment Management

A Case for Experimentation in Enrollment Management

In his book, The Victory Lab, author Sasha Issenberg describes a certain consulting industry that thrives on the ambiguity of not knowing what works. “It allows just about anyone involved to take credit for good results or attribute blame for poor ones, confident of...
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