By Matt Reed. NEASC says No.
It isn’t often that I get news over the phone that surprises me so much that I blurt out “wow!” so loudly that the rest of the office wants to know what happened. More...
AACC, Day Two
“Be Uncomfortable”: Live from the AACC
By Matt Reed. The AACC is really two organizations. There’s the one on stage at the plenary sessions: self-assured, stately, sometimes a little stuffy. And then there’s the one in the smaller meeting rooms: critical, restless, sometimes a little snarky. The distance between the two is wider this year than I’ve ever seen it. More...
Friday Fragments - April 26, 2018
Curated Serendipity, on the Cheap
Some College, No Degree, and Critical Mass
By Matt Reed. Tennessee is blowing the curve for the rest of us. I say that with admitted envy.
It’s expanding its best-in-the-country free community college program to include working adults with some college experience, but without degrees. More...
Empowering Bottom-up Communications in a Top-Down Environment
Our institutions rely on the town hall and the mass email to disseminate big news. Yet, our job is to mine the trenches for stories to share with the world. And as our budgets continue to shrink, we must be increasingly agile in how we juggle what our institutions expect from our teams as communicators with how we empower them as people. More...
Beyond the Brand: The Marketing Department of the Future
Higher education marketing departments should be able to bring data, insight, and an intimate understanding of the consumer to enable their institutions to identify future opportunities and forge new directions. More...
Last-Minute Checklist for Final Days of Yield Period
It’s here. The end of yield season. After years of hard (and smart) work and relationship building by your admissions and marketing-communications colleagues, it’s finally time for your admitted students to make their decision. More...