Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the Conference on Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice (CERPP) in Los Angeles, where, amongst other topics, we discussed the future of college admission. First, my shout out thanks to Julie Posselt, Emily Chung, and their team for hosting a great thought-provoking event.  Given the Supreme Court decision on race conscious admission coupled with the current administration activities, diving into the future of college admission w

I’ve been working on a project for an institution where we are building a financial model that integrates new student enrollment, continuing student enrollment, and financial aid across all levels – undergraduate and graduate.  While not a new concept, for high end market position institutions with rich endowments, this may be a newer construct. At Saint Joseph’s University, because of the collaborative, committee-oriented culture of the institution, we had this structure in

This past fall, I had the opportunity to attend the Strada  Foundation’s State Opportunity Index event in Washington DC as part of some advisory work I was engaged with in association with the foundation.  One of the principles discussed at the conference involved higher education access leading to completion to opportunity.  I heard someone wiser than me recently say, “access without completion is a broken promise” – truer words were never said.  Similarly, this past fall,

As part of my dissertation, I did a case study about an institution that transformed organizationally over the course of many years.  The research was fascinating, and exhausting, and allowed me to learn about the journeys associated with other institutions that transformed.  Each institution’s transformation involved some common themes between them I will share here for leaders interested in their own sustainability given the current higher education headwinds.  Note that ea