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Reinventing Your Recruitment Outreach with Search Strategies

by Johanna Trovato, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 29, 2020

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...

Eduventures Summit Virtual Research Forum: A Collective Endeavor

by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 22, 2020

“I’m sure everything will be back to normal by June.” When the pandemic hit in March, Eduventures Summit 2020, originally scheduled for June, seemed a long way off. As the situation worsened, we moved the date to November. Now, in lieu of an in-person event, we are...

The Non-Degree Graduate Boom: Chasing the Competition

by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 15, 2020

“360,316 already enrolled.” It is big numbers like this—featured on the homepage of the 10-course Data Science “specialization” from Johns Hopkins University and many others offered by other schools on Coursera, the giant MOOC platform, that both substantiate and...

Virtual Connection: The Rise of Experiential Learning Companies

by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 8, 2020

“The virtual university is the university made concrete,” said the animated young professor to my right, concluding his point with a flourish. It was London in the spring of 2000, a surreal no-man’s land between dotcom boom and crash. We were on a conference panel...

Student Journey Mapping: Redefining the Student Experience

by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 1, 2020

The typical vision of the student journey is a single, seamless trajectory, beginning at admission and ending with graduation. In reality, it is more like a highway full of roadblocks and traffic jams.

Three Essentials for Recruiting Your Next Class

by Kim Reid, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Aug 25, 2020

While the unending chaos of COVID-19 makes it seem like everything is different in undergraduate college recruitment, in very important ways, everything is still the same. With more students choosing to stay closer to home, the crisis has created definite shifts in...