Birth Rates and Bubbles: Higher Ed’s Challenge of Finding Freshmen
This month, The Atlantic published an article with a rather ominous title: “Here’s How Higher Education Dies”. It isn’t the first time that higher ed has been referred to as a “bubble” ready to burst, though author Adam Harris suggests we’ll see “less of a sudden pop...
Show Your Work: CBE Return on Investment – Results and Explainer
Several years ago, a trade journal arrived in my office with a cover story declaring that calculating Return on Investment (ROI) was like “Nailing Jell-O to the Wall”. I found this statement to be a bit misleading. First, ROI is really not that complicated, if you’re...
Top 5 Enrollment Data Resources You NEED To Be Reading Now
Kevin Kelly, in his fascinating book The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, gave me a moniker for how I feel on a daily basis in my job: perpetual newbie. “In this era of ‘becoming,’ everyone becomes a newbie,” Kelly...
