Insights

The RHB team frequently receives questions from higher education marketing and communications leaders about what structural and effectiveness trends we observe from our perspective across the sector. Leaders ask us about everything from high-level strategy to the shape of organizational charts and all the way down to tactical questions about working more effectively: How do…Read more

Upon completion of their undergraduate and graduate implementations with RHB, the University of Texas Permian Basin made the decision to continue the use of Slate for student success. Saddled with an antiquated system for current students that was cumbersome and difficult to navigate, the institution sought to leverage momentum from the admissions implementation into the…Read more

This article previously appeared in Inside Higher Ed and it is posted here with permission of the author. Over the last few years, the work of steering higher ed toward its promise of creating equity and social mobility—including for those who work within it—has only become more difficult in many locations. Conflicts over why—and for…Read more

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

Paraphrasing a famous theoretical physicist: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Slate has many layers and is, by necessity, complex. We ask it to do a lot for our operations, and it generally does it all exceptionally well. Concepts transfer. Learning to write a Configurable Joins query in one part…Read more

The process of launching your Slate database can be an intimidating one, but it doesn’t have to be. Having completed hundreds of implementations with institutions of all types, the RHB team has developed a pre-flight checklist and identified best practices for both first-time implementations and ongoing cycle prep to help you navigate your start with…Read more