by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 8, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics
COVID-19 has humbled prognosticators everywhere: an impossible-to-predict global pandemic has impacted higher education in 2020 far more than anything this rusty analyst’s musing could conjure in the halcyon days of last January. A year ago, my first of three annual...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 1, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics, Program Innovation, Student Success, Traditional Student Demand
At the recent Eduventures Summit Virtual Research Forum, I presented an eye-popping chart showing the longstanding surge in higher education instructional and student services spend this century. Instructional spend at public four-year schools grew 140%, but student...
by Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Oct 13, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand
Eduventures Summit 2020Virtual Research Forum November 12 More Info Register Seven months into the pandemic, prospects for a rapid economic recovery are dimming. The persistence of COVID-19, and an evaporation of federal stimulus aid signal rough waters ahead for many...
by Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Oct 6, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, COVID-19
Eduventures Summit 2020Virtual Research Forum November 12 More Info Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite 2020 will long be remembered as the year of learning differently. Whether you’re enrolled in first grade or graduate school, online learning has become an...
by Johanna Trovato, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 29, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, Traditional Student Demand
The pandemic has forced institutions that recruit traditional college-bound students to abandon proven communication search strategies. For some, this provided a welcome opportunity to finally toss dated methods and try out new tactics. For others, this pivot was...
by Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jul 7, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics, COVID-19
There’s little doubt that 2020 will go down as the year of educating differently. With higher education turned upside down, how are adult learners responding to these unprecedented events? Will a fear of on-campus learning drive more adults to embrace online formats?...
