Picture this dream scenario: You have a bright, talented and hungry first-year admissions tour guide you already know you want on your enrollment team when they graduate. Today, that student comes to you and asks, “What courses can I take over the next four years to help me help my alma mater when you hire…Read more
Author: Ken Anselment
Build a More Strategic Higher Ed Budget: Advice From Three RHB Experts
It’s budget-building season and questions abound. Three RHB team members, Dr. Amanda Sale, senior enrollment management consultant, Ken Anselment, vice president for enrollment management, and Dr. Rob Zinkan, vice president for marketing leadership, draw on their extensive higher education experience to provide some helpful tips as you make the difficult decisions that will set the…Read more
Transcript: Foster Student Belonging With a Coherent Deposit to Day One Strategy
RHB Vice President for Enrollment Management Ken Anselemnt led a January 24 webinar as part of the Leading Edge Thinking in Higher Education Series by Bay Path University’s Center for Higher Education Leadership and Innovative Practice (CHELIP). The journey to student success (and retention) doesn’t begin when students arrive at your institution—it starts when they…Read more
The Admissions Leadership Podcast: Rick Bailey on the Importance of Coherence
Earlier this month RHB Founder and Principal Rick Bailey joined host Ken Anslement, RHB Vice President for Enrollment Management, on the Admissions Leadership Podcast (“The ALP”). You can listen to the episode or read the transcript below. · · · Transcript Ken Anselment Welcome to the Admissions Leadership Podcast, a series of one-on-one, conversations with…Read more
Foster Student Belonging With a Coherent Deposit to Day One Strategy
Earlier this summer, Tyton Partners released Driving Toward a Degree: Awareness, Belonging, and Coordination, which revealed a disturbing gap in awareness about student support services by students and the employees at the institutions they attend. The report—based on responses from more than 2,000 students and 1,750 employees at about 900 two- and four-year private and…Read more
Can AI be a key to a resurgence in relevance for the humanities … and for higher ed?
6 Ways Toward Greater Relevance Wonder … Curiosity … Inquiry … Awe … Imagination … The words cascaded down the futurist’s slide deck in RHB’s shared Zoom box, highlighting things that artificial intelligence can’t replace … at least not yet. I note, with a blend of amusement and concern, that the phrase “artificial intelligence” in…Read more
Managing Slate’s Changes Regarding Race and Ethnicity Data
If you’re using Slate for your admissions and enrollment processes, you may have noticed that, as of July 12, race and ethnicity data that had been stored in the standard Slate race and ethnicity fields (e.g., race, hispanic) are no longer being displayed on the person record, the Reader or Slate application PDFs. This was…Read more
The Supreme Court’s Ruling in the SFFA Cases Against Harvard and UNC
We knew this was coming, but—much like waiting for a loved one in declining health to pass away—when the expected event finally arrives, it can shock, sadden or anger. Thus landed the United States Supreme Court’s ruling to eliminate race as a factor in how colleges, specifically Harvard and the University of North Carolina at…Read more
What a Customer Experience Manager Does (and Why You Need One on Your Campus)
Over the course of my first year here at RHB, I have been going through our vast library of Insights articles to tap into the best thinking of my RHB colleagues over the three decades (and more) that RHB has been providing expert counsel to our clients. The article below strikes me as particularly evergreen,…Read more
Getting Ready for the College Board’s New Connections Feature and What It Means for Search
Starting this fall, the way institutions will engage with student records available through the College Board will expand beyond direct-to-student “search” to an additional method called Connections. RHB is here to decode what it means for you and how we can help you maximize your institutional effectiveness in this new environment. Like many of you,…Read more