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Jack Maguire is sometimes credited with coining the term "enrollment management." In this
NEJHE piece, the founder of Maguire Associates, a theoretical physicist by training, walks the reader through corollaries and principles to show how variable human forces are often more important than technical aspects in meeting the challenges of college enrollment. "The worst thing you can do, particularly in our business where there is so much ambiguity, is hire people like yourself," writes Maguire. "Different opinions will surface and there will be creative tension that results in halting, but steady, progress—a kind of Darwinian natural selection process. When you clone yourself as a manager, you're talking into an echo chamber. When you hire different kinds of people, there are times when they will disagree with you even to the extent that you would like to dismiss them. But the advantages of different points of view outweigh the disadvantages."
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More from The New England Journal of Higher Education
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Before coronavirus, many feared that more and more small colleges would go out of business, falling victim to overreliance on tuition, fewer traditional college-age students, changing preferences and stale business models. Then COVID-19 cast doubt on how students would dare return to reopened campuses. On top of that, entered a wave of protests over centuries-old U.S. inequality. Through it all, the economy tanked. Oddly enough, those small colleges that began the crises already on the edge have qualities that may help them respond to COVID-19 in ways many larger institutions cannot, writes author and former Southern Vermont College President Karen Gross.
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Keisha Venson Sheedy, an innovation analyst at Southern New Hampshire University, shares the story of the leader of a Black women’s student group who was not able to complete her undergraduate degree. She soon discovered that "being a student leader, and what you’ve undeniably learned, just doesn’t matter that much unless you’ve also graduated." She asks, "Has higher education told us that only those who do the work to finish the degree get to breathe freely?"
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New England higher education institutions that are already on shaky financial ground could be forced to close altogether due to extended campus shutdowns and pandemic-induced enrollment declines, according to a new brief from the New England Public Policy Center authored by Senior Policy Analyst Riley Sullivan. The brief examines the COVID-19 pandemic and the cities and towns in the region that depend heavily on employment and commerce from institutions whose declining enrollments and low endowments make them particularly vulnerable.
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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is currently collecting data for the 2019–20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20), which is designed to provide both national and state-level financial aid data. This will enable researchers, policymakers, and other higher education stakeholders to generate state-representative undergraduate financial aid estimates and compare aid programs at the state level. NEBHE supports NPSAS:20, which will help fill important gaps in the postsecondary education data landscape, and encourages institutions to participate if selected for the study.
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Read the latest from
NEJHE's DC Shuttle, featuring national news drawn from our friends at the New England Council.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 7 at 1 p.m. for a webinar on upskilling programs in Vermont. This webinar, based on NEBHE's recent
white paper
, will focus on real-time labor-market data and consumer insights data from Strada Education Network to highlight successes, challenges and opportunities for upskilling in Vermont. Additionally, a robus
t panel discussion will illuminate effective upskilling programs in Vermont, featuring panelists Tiffany Keune, associate dean of workforce education at Community College of Vermont, and Steven Gordon, CEO of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
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Recent NEBHE Webinars
NEBHE’s Open Education Fellow Lindsey Gumb led a conversation on how institutions can leverage Open Educational Resources (OER) during a global pandemic to help students and faculty navigate the challenges and burdens imposed by traditional learning resources.
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NEBHE hosted a webinar on the New England economy, which continues to reel from the effects of COVID-19. Jobs have been lost at a rate not seen since the Great Depression, particularly in the service and hospitality industries. Some economists believe that these losses will be temporary. But others project that the new normal will usher in an era of increased automation and hybridization of jobs, and that some jobs will be lost forever.
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In a webinar sponsored by NEBHE,
two college admissions officers give school counselors, parents and prospective students insight into what’s happening on their campuses, and why it’s taking some time to provide answers in this year of COVID-19.
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NEBHE announced a partnership with the inquiry-based discussion platform
Packback
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Packback
will enable higher education institutions across New England to access and facilitate more engaging, dynamic online discussions. As colleges and universities across the region navigate their ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Packback's online teaching is now available to New England institutions through exclusive pricing that will help institutions provide a meaningful, high-quality remote learning resource.
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An op-ed by Suresh V. Garimella in Scientific American posits a way to address the twin crises roiling America now: the coronavirus pandemic and pervasive racism. His solution: nurture the talent for science and technology among underrepresented students across the U.S. In 1988, NEBHE published "Equity and Pluralism: Full Participation of Blacks and Hispanics in New England Higher Education." The report of NEBHE’s Task Force on Black and Hispanic Student Enrollment and Retention in New England offers 20 major recommendations to ensure greater participation and success among blacks and Hispanics in New England higher education and the educated workforce. The work laid the groundwork for subsequent NEBHE science mentoring and networking programs for underserved New England populations.
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New England is home to a large number of fast-growing, high-skill industries with jobs that require a postsecondary credential. Effective models of education and training need to be created to meet labor market demands, overcome employer-reported skills shortages and satisfy workers’ desire for additional training. Consequently, the region’s businesses need to make upskilling programs available to employees to improve skills matching, retention and work productivity. The successful implementation of upskilling programs will require greater collaboration and alignment between New England’s educators and employers.
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NEBHE's
Tracking Coronavirus
web resource
features an easy-to-use visual showing
institutions' COVID-19 responses including current status of campus closures and shifts to online operations, as well as i
nfo on refund strategies for students' room and board charges and commencement statuses.
The page also features: COVID-19 News; Governmental Responses, Guidance & Advocacy; Distance Education Resources & Compliance; Institutional Finance Information; and Admissions and Enrollment Information.
Please s
hare updates from your institution at:
[email protected]
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NEJHE
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