In 2010, Higher Ed Live set out to become the most valuable professional development option for higher education professionals. For a decade, we offered tens of thousands of viewers direct access to the best and brightest minds in education. We broadcasted live from the industry’s largest conferences. We delivered insights around the most important issues in student affairs, marketing, admissions, advancement, and more. Our network expanded from live broadcasts to podcasts, in-person events, blogs, and industry partnerships. We promoted learning, innovation, excellence, engagement, respect, an ..read more

mStoner is excited to announce our upcoming, virtual conference: Hollywood to Higher Ed When? April 22-23, 2020 Noon to 5:15 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. PST How much? $799 (Early bird pricing ends April 1, 2020.) Higher Ed Live viewers receive an additional $100 off with the discount code HEL100. Registration closes on Monday, April 21, at 8:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. PDT Learn More and Register Check out the line up of speakers and sessions. Day One: Wednesday, April 22 How Hollywood Works: An Insider’s Guide to How Movies and TV Get Made Colleen McAllister, writer, film & TV exec ..read more

First and foremost, thank you so much for supporting Higher Ed Live as listener and blog reader. We really appreciate it! 2019 was a year full of change for the network. We: Held our first open call for new hosts and welcomed smart and thoughtful leaders like Andrew Cassel, Kin Sejpal, and Joe Sallustio (among others!) to the Higher Ed Live team. Moved live broadcasts to PQE’s Conduit platform, improving the quality of the broadcast and overall viewing experience. Engaged many new sponsors to keep the network free and accessible to all. Huge thanks to Campus Sonar, GatherContent, VisitDays, W ..read more

You’ve redesigned your website using the latest WCAG 2.1 standards, run accessibility checks, changed branding to accommodate ADA-friendly design, and have revised hundreds, if not thousands, of images, articles, videos, and links to make sure that your website content is ADA-compliant. Yet can you say with confidence that your website allows anyone with any type of disability to fully engage with the content? Even as colleges and universities are working diligently and in good faith to meet the ADA-compliance standards, there are still website accessibility mistakes that continue to plague th ..read more

Let’s talk about navigation. If the last time you considered navigation on your site was before Amazon dominated textbook ordering, it’s time to have a think. Digital giants such as Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Instagram, Hulu, and Airbnb have been busy redefining online habits on their platforms. One element they have invested heavily in for the past three years? Navigation. As the foundation of any good UX, navigation is a make-or-break piece of your website. Just because you’ve set it up or inherited it, doesn’t mean your job is done. Clean UI, direct links, search, and menus are meant to be t ..read more

In my previous post, we discussed how it is widely accepted that corporate alumni are a great source of talent, ideas and advocacy for any organization. However, while they share some common strands with student alumni, the approach and the model need to be quite different. Students will, almost always, leave happy – with a degree, friends and memories for a lifetime. On the other hand, people don’t always leave jobs on a high note like that. A situation such as this warrants the question: Are we ready to let go of the talent because of a failed employee relationship or would we like to revive ..read more

Discussing recruitment woes, a friend of mine who works in HR lamented ‘Hiring is so exhausting. I wish I could simply bring our former employees back.’ Having worked in alumni relations for many years, I promptly replied with ‘So, why don’t you?’ The conversation quickly turned towards corporate alumni networks, based on the same principle as student alumni networks but aimed at former members of staff. After all, the philosophy behind both remains the same – keep your people close. Traditionally, the term alumni is associated with educational institutions. Increasingly, however, other organi ..read more

The high school students you want to recruit spend nine hours a day on their digital devices. That’s four times the average time they spend doing homework, twice the average time spent on daily extracurricular activities, and even more than the average 8.5 hours they spend sleeping. In fact, almost half of teens report that they’re online almost constantly. These startling statistics confirm what higher education marketers and administrators have witnessed in recent years: digital engagement is the most important strategy for engaging Generation Z. But what are the right solutions and strategi ..read more

Higher Ed Live is excited to welcome our new host Cameron J. Hall, Director of Annual Giving at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), on Advancement Live.   Cameron joins Andrew Gossen, Jon Horowitz, and Kim Infanti as co-host on Advancement Live. As a progressive and forward-thinking fundraising and engagement strategist with proven experience in donor acquisition and retention through annual giving, alumni engagement and donor relations, Cameron J. Hall serves Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) as the Director of Annual Giving. There he leads a team that is responsible for providing ov ..read more

This blog post is written by Katie Ross, Education Director of Liberal Studies at Full Sail University. Throughout universities, departments are hard at work trying to connect with students and ensure departments have unitized services. Those in admissions are reviewing applications, scheduling interviews, and speaking with parents. Marketing is working hard to connect with future students through the proper channels that will help the admissions teams. The Student and Academic Affairs department is creating workshops and providing support to students to help them be successful after students ..read more